Self-portrait

Self-portrait PDF Author: Ross Macdonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Self-portrait

Self-portrait PDF Author: Ross Macdonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Self-portrait

Self-portrait PDF Author: Ross Macdonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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It's All One Case

It's All One Case PDF Author: Paul Nelson
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606998889
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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This is a prose series of unpublished interviews with, and a visual retrospective of, the seminal mid- to late-20th century literary crime writer. In 1976, critic Paul Nelson spent several weeks interviewing legendary detective writer Ross Macdonald, who elevated the form to a new literary level. “We talked about everything imaginable,” Nelson wrote―including Macdonald’s often meager beginnings; his dual citizenship; writers, painters, music, and movies he admired; The Great Gatsby, his favorite book; how he used symbolism to change detective writing; and more. This book, published in a handsome, oversized format, collects these unpublished interviews and is a visual history of Macdonald’s professional career. It is illustrated with rare and select items from one of the world’s largest private archives of Macdonald ephemera; reproduces, in full color, the covers of the various editions of Macdonald’s more than two dozen books; collects facsimile reproductions of select pages from his manuscripts, as well as magazine spreads; and presents rare photos, many never before seen.

Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty PDF Author: Suzanne Marrs
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156030632
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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In this definitive account of the life of one of the finest writers of the 20th century, Marrs restores Eudora Welty's story to human proportions, tracing Welty's history from her roots in Jackson, Mississippi, to her rise to international stature.

BP 250

BP 250 PDF Author: R. Reginald
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809512068
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Book Description
An Annotated Bibliography of the First 300 Publications of the Borgo Press, 1975-1998

The Detective and the Artist

The Detective and the Artist PDF Author: J.K. Van Dover
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476635919
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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 This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction—as detectives, as villains and victims, and as bystanders. With a few significant exceptions, literary detectives have always identified themselves as essentially the deconstructors of the artful crimes of others. They may use various methods—ratiocinative, scientific, or hard-boiled—but they always unravel the threads that the villains have woven into deceptive covers for their crimes. The detective does, in the end, produce a work of art: a narrative that explains everything that needs explanation. But the detective’s moral work is often juxtaposed to the aesthetic work of the painters, poets, and writers that the detective encounters during an investigation. The author surveys this juxtaposition in works by important authors from the early development of the genre (Poe, Conan Doyle), the golden age (Bentley, Christie, Sayers, James, et al.), and the hard-boiled era (Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald, Spicer et al.).

Occasions

Occasions PDF Author: Eudora Welty
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604732641
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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A treasury of hard-to-find stories, essays, tributes, and humor from a literary master

The Haunted States of America

The Haunted States of America PDF Author: James Morgart
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 178683877X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Prior studies of post-war American Gothic literature (and even American horror films) have primarily interpreted Gothic cultural production of the post-war period through a Cold War lens. Despite legitimate reasons for such an approach, this emphasis has limited inquiries into post-war fiction as well as our understanding of the nation’s complicated identity. While the federal government and its investigative agencies may have been preoccupied with the so-called ‘red menace’ that threatened to spread across the planet, each region of the country already possessed major strains of Gothic fiction that focused on regional anxieties – namely of those connected to women and minorities that threatened the region’s constructed identity and balance of power. The Haunted States of America shifts the focus to these Gothic strains by examining how the anxieties, fears and concerns illustrated in the works of several post-World War II writers can be best understood through regional history and identity.

Hard-boiled Heretic

Hard-boiled Heretic PDF Author: Mary Stanley Weinkauf
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0893701726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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A study of the character of Lew Archer and the novels that he appears in.

100 American Crime Writers

100 American Crime Writers PDF Author: S. Powell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137031662
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.