Peter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such he 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 Mc Bain, Nelson De Mille, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Nobrow: 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 Mc Bain.- Take Two: Nelson De Mille and F. Scott Fitzgerald.- Bibliography.
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Peter Swirski is a Canadian scholar and literary critic featured in Canadian Who’s Who. Specialist in American literature and American studies, and Amazon’s #1 Bestseller in American Literature, American History and Criticism, and Canadian Literary Criticism, he is the author of sixteen award-winning books, including the staple of American popular culture studies From Lowbrow to Nobrow (2005); a trio of bestsellers on American literature, culture, and politics: Ars Americana, Ars Politica (2010); American Utopia and Social Engineering (2011), and American Political Fictions (2015); and a tour de force on thinking and creative computers From Literature to Biterature (2013).
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