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Jimmying the Back Door of Literature: Dashiell Hammett's Blue-Collar Modernism
Ist Teil von
Journal of popular culture, 2008-10, Vol.41 (5), p.762-783
Ort / Verlag
Malden, USA: Blackwell Publishing Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
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Wiley Blackwell Single Titles
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The emergence of modernism in different countries and disciplines prompted many critics to pluralize the term. The general focus of the present argument is the movement in early to mid-twentieth-century English-language literature whose characteristics include a tendency to experiment, react strongly against urbanized society, elucidate modern experience with mythological parallels, and delve into the "unconscious and irrational activities" of the mind. Here, Gray examines the features of the novels by Dashiell Hammett, who wrote in an effort to elevate detective fiction to the level of literary art. The appearance of these features suggest a reciprocal anomaly to the elements of populism that Herbert N. Schneidau has identified in the modernist works of Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and T. S. Elliot. Accordingly, an analysis of high modernist elements in the Hammett novels reinforces Michael North's admonition that artificial boundaries between popular culture and modern literature impoverish the sense of a period and adversely affect appreciation of the relations between literary modernism and other aspects of modern culture.