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War Noir: Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction
Sarah Trott
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Description for War Noir: Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
The conflation of the hard-boiled style and war experience has influenced many contemporary crime writers, particularly in the traumatic aftermath of the Vietnam War. Yet, earlier writers in the genre, such as Raymond Chandler, remain overlooked when it comes to examining how their war experience affected their writing. Sarah Trott corrects this oversight by examining Chandler alongside the World War I writers of the Lost Generation as well as highlighting a melding of very different styles in Chandler's work. Based on Chandler's experience in combat, Trott explains that the writer created detective Philip Marlowe not as the ... Read more
The conflation of the hard-boiled style and war experience has influenced many contemporary crime writers, particularly in the traumatic aftermath of the Vietnam War. Yet, earlier writers in the genre, such as Raymond Chandler, remain overlooked when it comes to examining how their war experience affected their writing. Sarah Trott corrects this oversight by examining Chandler alongside the World War I writers of the Lost Generation as well as highlighting a melding of very different styles in Chandler's work. Based on Chandler's experience in combat, Trott explains that the writer created detective Philip Marlowe not as the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781496808646
SKU
V9781496808646
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About Sarah Trott
Sarah Trott, Brigend, South Wales, United Kingdom, is a lecturer in American studies at Swansea University. She has published in the edited collection Men After War and the journal Comparative American Studies.
Reviews for War Noir: Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction
By exploring the complex relationship between Raymond Chandler; his famous creation, Philip Marlowe; and war, Sarah Trott has written an indispensable book. War Noir opens up new and productive ways of reading Chandler and his work; moreover, this book revolutionizes our understanding of the connections between the individual acts of violence that crime fiction focuses on and the collective violence ... Read more