LEADER 02782nam 22005415 450 001 9910255243803321 005 20230810185339.0 010 $a9783319301082 010 $a331930108X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-30108-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000754852 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-30108-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4594686 035 $a(Perlego)3494280 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000754852 100 $a20160715d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican Crime Fiction $eA Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art /$fby Peter Swirski 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XIII, 222 p. 12 illus.) 311 08$a9783319301075 311 08$a3319301071 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aNobrow: Contents and Discontents -- Briefcases for Hire: Dashiell Hammett and John Grisham -- Boilerplate Potboilers: William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway -- The Not So Simple Art of Murder: Raymond Chandler -- The Urban Procedural: Ed McBain -- Take Two: Nelson DeMille and F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Bibliography. 330 $aThis book looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such it documents the manifold ways in which such authorship and readership are a matter of informed literary choice and not of cultural brainwashing or declining literary standards. Asking, in effect, a series of questions about the nature of genre fiction as art, successive chapters look at American crime writers whose careers throw light on the hazards and rewards of nobrow traffic between popular forms and highbrow aesthetics: Dashiell Hammett, John Grisham, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, Ed McBain, Nelson DeMille, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 676 $a809.04 700 $aSwirski$b Peter$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01064536 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255243803321 996 $aAmerican Crime Fiction$92538809 997 $aUNINA