A Companion to Crime Fiction, 2010, p.450-461
2010
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961)
- Ist Teil von
- A Companion to Crime Fiction, 2010, p.450-461
- Ort / Verlag
- Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
- Quelle
- Wiley Online Library All Obooks
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9781405167659, 1405167653DOI: 10.1002/9781444317916.ch36Titel-ID: cdi_wiley_ebooks_10_1002_9781444317916_ch36_ch36
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- Schlagworte
- attitude toward truth, extending to solution of the novel ‐ and Nick explaining it to Nora, she being dissatisfied with the lack of certainty, Dashiell Hammett (1894 – 1961), Dinah's sexuality, conveyed by the way ‐ her physicality escaping the limits of her clothing, disjunction between the world and meaning ‐ relation of this disjunction to capitalism and violence, central role in the first Op novel, Red Harvest, genre‐inflected sections of The Dain Curse ‐ with the Op identifying the killer(s) and reconstructing what actually happened, history of detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett ‐ seen as founder of the hard‐boiled school, in The Glass Key, detective story and romance narrative elements, even more obviously artificial, and motives of, Ned Beaumont, more mysterious, the Op's initial neutrality, giving no connection to others and no meaning to the world, “The Big Knock Over,” showing that Hammett's detectives ‐ characterized by a kind of skepticism