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The noir thriller / Lee Horsley.

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What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler and Cain to the exciting diver...

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Main Author: Horsley, Lee, 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:Crime files series.
Subjects:
Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, English > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > English-speaking countries > History > 20th century.
Popular literature > English-speaking countries > History and criticism.
Crime in literature.
American fiction.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Detective and mystery stories, English.
English fiction.
Literature and society.
Popular literature.
English-speaking countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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Call Number: PS374.D4 H67 2009eb
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