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2002 Nice and Noir Contemporary American Crime Fiction by Richard B Schwartz
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Very Good in Very Good dust jacket”
- ISBN
- 9780826213938
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
ISBN-10
0826213936
ISBN-13
9780826213938
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2243811
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nice and Noir : Contemporary American Crime Fiction
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Mystery & Detective, American / General, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2002-017956
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
College Freshman
Dewey Decimal
813/.087209
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Synopsis
Owners of mystery bookshops will tell you that there are several sorts of buyers: those who purchase on impulse or whim; genre addicts who buy paperbacks by the week and by the armful; and those who have caught up on canonical texts and regularly buy new novels by select authors in hardcover. Richard B. Schwartz belongs in the last group, with his own list of approximately seventy favorite writers. Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction explores the work of these writers, building upon a reading of almost seven hundred novels from the 1980s and 1990s. By looking at recurring themes in these mysteries, Schwartz offers readers new ways to approach the works in relation to contemporary cultural concerns. With sensitivity to a culture consisting of frontiers and borders, Schwartz examines the position of the vigilante in art and society, racial bridges and divides, the absence of divine presence and compensating narrative strategies, the unresolved nature of the crime plot and its roots in chivalric romance. The special importance of setting and the growing importance of grotesque humor in the fiction studied here are addressed by the author, as is the journalistic/instructional dimension of the field and the importance of crossover narratives. This book is not only a study and appreciation of an important subgenre and its contemporary practitioners; it also utilizes both literary history and theoretical material. Information has been drawn from fanzines, from discussions with writers, booksellers, agents, and editors, and from the author's own extensive knowledge of literature and American culture. Nice and Noir is wide-ranging but neither ponderous nor lugubrious. Its language is accessible but not simplistic. The book will have a broad appeal--both to academics and to general readers with some interest in American studies and popular culture.
LC Classification Number
PS374.D4S39 2002
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