| The Critical Response to Raymond Chandler Contributor(s): Van Dover, J. Kennet (Author) |
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ISBN: 0313279489 ISBN-13: 9780313279485 Publisher: Greenwood OUR PRICE: $106.92 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1995 Annotation: Raymond Chandler is perhaps one of the best known and widely read American mystery writers of this century. Though he practiced in a popular genre and was once dismissed as a serious writer, his works are now receiving the attention of scholars. Chandler is now recognized as a major mid-century American novelist and as an author with a deliberate approach toward the creation of fictions that present a significant criticism of American life. This volume traces the changing reception of Chandler's works. It includes essays and reviews from 1944 to the present. These pieces treat various aspects of Chandler's art, such as his writing style, the nature of the hard-boiled detective hero, the relation of Chandler to his contemporaries, Los Angeles as the setting for his fiction, studies of individual novels, and analyses of films of Chandler's works. An introductory chapter provides a context for understanding Chandler as a writer, and the bibliography at the end of the volume demonstrates the growing amount of attention his novels are receiving. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| LCCN: 94042120 |
| Series: Critical Responses in Arts and Letters |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.42" W x 9.54" (1.3 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the past decade, Raymond Chandler has come to be recognized as a major mid-century American novelist. Though an immensely popular writer of mysteries, Chandler is now receiving the serious attention of scholars. He is seen as a writer with a deliberate approach toward the creation of fictions that present a significant criticism of American life. The essays and reviews in this volume trace the response to Chandler's work from 1944 to the present. This volume traces the changing reception of Chandler's works. It includes essays and reviews from 1944 to the present. These pieces treat various aspects of Chandler's art, such as his writing style, the nature of the hard-boiled detective hero, the relation of Chandler to his contemporaries, Los Angeles as the setting for his fiction, studies of individual novels, and analyses of films of Chandler's works. An introductory chapter provides a context for understanding Chandler as a writer, and the bibliography at the end of the volume demonstrates the growing amount of attention his novels are receiving. |