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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Raymond Chandler"”.
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To Reach the Unreachable Stars: Reexamining the Shared Arthurian Vision of C. S. Lewis's Science Fiction Trilogy and Raymond Chandler's Marlowe Novels
<p>Although Raymond Chandler and C. S. Lewis seem to be a rather strange pairing, the ways in which they both borrow from Arthurian literature and use the myth to speak to their cultural moment are strikingly similar. Following T. S. Eliot’s use of the Grail quest in <em>The Waste Land</em> (which …
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Comfort factors, moral fantasy and social criticism in formulaic fiction : a study of literary formulas with particular reference to the 'hard-boiled' detective story
… are normally deemed to be Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald. A study of their works should provide a valuable insight into the structure of their patterns and how they are made to work to the public's satisfaction. After all, the one indisputable and verifiable matter in …
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From Falling Beams to Fallen Souls : The Ethical Development of the Hard-Boiled Detective Novel
… of the hard-boiled school, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald, show an ethical progression, a turning outward, from the personal, inwardly focused ethics of Hammett's characters to the outwardly turned moral understanding of Macdonald's hero.</p> <p>Dashiell Hammett writes …
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Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives
… writers such as Samuel Beckett, Edgar Allen Poe, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Conan-Doyle and Agatha Christie imitate, subvert or transform the familiar conventions of the detective novel. In doing so, I offer a slightly subversive reading of Beckett’s Molloy, in which the more intellectual and …
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Sam Spade as the detective next door: industry, culture, and class in post-war radio adaptations of hardboiled detective fiction
… detective writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. This thesis examines The Adventures of Sam Spade (1946-1951) as an adaptation ofHammett's most famous detective. I argue that crime series adapted from popular mystery novels, like Sam Spade, were shaped by a number of factors, …
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Becoming film noir : film noir adaptions of hard-boiled fiction, 1944-46
… novels of Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler. The thesis argues that the adaptation process is of central significance to the ‘film noir’ debate and to film noir itself. While it argues for a dialogic exchange between ‘noir’ and ‘hard-boiled fiction’, it proposes as well that …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… Hammett’s Continental Op in Red Harvest and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe in Farewell, My Lovely and elucidates that the detective’s status as an urbanite necessitates a different method of performing his work: he negotiates his urban world with a linguistic prowess quite different from …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… Hammett’s Continental Op in Red Harvest and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe in Farewell, My Lovely and elucidates that the detective’s status as an urbanite necessitates a different method of performing his work: he negotiates his urban world with a linguistic prowess quite different from …