The Noir Thriller /

What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? 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 diver...

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Main Author:	Horsley, Lee (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:	Crime files series.
Subjects:	Literature. Cultural Studies. Cultural Theory. Fiction. Literary Theory. North American Literature. Twentieth-Century Literature. Culture > Study and teaching. Literature > Philosophy. Literature, Modern > 20th century. Popular culture > Study and teaching. America > Literatures. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book