The Noir Thriller
2009th Edition, Kindle Edition
Palgrave Macmillan · Ebook · January 19, 2001
What is literary noir?
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- Who it’s for
- Lee Horsley examines literary noir from hard-boiled fiction through the diversity of nineties thrillers.
- Genres
- Mystery & Crime Crit, 20th-Century Literary Criticism, British & Irish Literary Criticism
- Published
- Palgrave Macmillan, January 19, 2001
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What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts?
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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 diversity of nineties thrillers, with sections on the tough investigators, gangsters and victims of the Depression years: the first-person killers, femmes fatales and black protagonists of mid-century; the game-players, voyeurs and consumers of contemporary thrillers and future noir.
Noir Across Eras
Lee Horsley examines literary noir from hard-boiled fiction through the diversity of nineties thrillers.
Come here for
- Noir’s politics and poetics across hundreds of novels
- How British and American noir thrillers relate to historical contexts
Expect
- Sections on Depression-era investigators, gangsters, and victims
- Mid-century killers and femmes fatales; contemporary game-players, voyeurs, and consumers
Where it sits
| Mystery & Crime Crit | 96% |
|---|---|
| 20th-Century Literary Criticism | 37% |
| British & Irish Literary Criticism | 25% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Creative Writing
- Sociology
- Authors
- Lee Horsley
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- January 19, 2001
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Creative Writing