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The critical response to Dashiell Hammett
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Publication Date
1994
Language
English
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From the Book
From The journals of André Gide / André Gide
From The pursuit of crime / Dennis Porter
From Shadow man : the life of Dashiell Hammett / Richard Layman
From Hammett : a life at the edge / William F. Nolan
From "Radical anger : Dashiell Hammett's "Red harvest" / Christopher Bentley
From Adventure, mystery, and romance / John G. Cawelti
Forms of labor in Dashiell Hammett's Red harvest / Carl Freedman and Christopher Kendrick
From Dashiell Hammett : a casebook / William F. Nolan
From California writers / Stoddard Martin
From "The hardboiled dicks" / Donald Westlake
The Dain curse : the epistemology of the detective story / Sinda Gregory
"A long and laughable story" : Hammett's The Dain curse / Bruce Gatenby
From the introduction to The Maltese falcon / Dashiell Hammett
From "Why do people read detective stories?" / Edmund Wilson
From Heroes and highbrows and the popular mind / Leo Gurko
From "The Maltese falcon : the emergency of the hero / George J. Thompson
From Saint with a gun / William Ruelman
From Dashiell Hammett / Julian Symons
Focus on The Maltese falcon : the metaphysical falcon / Irving Malin
Jameson, genre, and gumshoes : The Maltese falcon as inverted romance / Jasmine Yong Hall
Dashiell Hammett and the challenge of new individualism : rereading Red harvest and The Maltese falcon / Christopher Metress
From "Oh look - two good books!" / Dorothy Parker
Letter to the editor of Writer's digest / Joseph T. Shaw
On The glass key / Rex Stout
From Mortal consequences / Julian Symons
On The glass key / James M. Cain
From The new wild west : the urban mysteries of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler / Paul Skenazy
From "Setting the record straight on Dashiell Hammett : a life" / William F. Nolan
Riddle of the key / Will Murray
Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled modernism / Jon Thompson
From an advertisement, The New York times / Alfred Knopf
From Shadow man : the life of Dashiell Hammett / Richard Layman
From Private investigations : the novels of Dashiell Hammett / Sinda Gregory
The thin man : the end game / George J. Thompson
From Beams falling : the art of Dashiell Hammett's novels / Peter Wolfe
From Murder for pleasure : the life and times of the detective story / Howard Haycroaft
From "The simple art of murder" / Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett's private eye : no loyalty beyond the job / Davd T. Bazelon
The thin man / A. Alvarez
Poetics of the private eye : the novels of Dashiell Hammett / Robert I. Edenbaum
Dashiell Hammett and the continental op / Steven Marcus
Homage to Dashiell Hammmett / Ross Macdonald
Finding out about gender in Hammett's detective fiction : generic constraints or transcendental norms? / David J. Herman
Dangerous romance as a prelude to love : Hammett's Woman in the dark / Larry Anderson.
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9780313289385
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