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“sarah trott”

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  • War Noir

    Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction

    by Sarah Trott ...
    The conflation of the hard-boiled style and war experience has influenced many contemporary crime writers, particularly in the traumatic aftermath of the Vietnam War. Yet, earlier writers in the genre, such as Raymond Chandler, remain overlooked when it comes to examining how their war experience affected their writing. Sarah Trott corrects this oversight by examining Chandler alongside the World ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture

    Edited by Dr. Anne-Marie Evans, Dr. Sarah Trott ...
    From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies' Home Journal to Vogue thisdiverse collection examines how the nation's First Lady has become an important cultural icon within an underestimated yet symbolic position in US social politics and culture.Academic work on the First Lady has tended to be historical or biographical in approach, but The First Lady in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    by Donald E. Westlake ...
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  • Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview

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    by Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller ...
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    Ray Bradbury was long the most influential sci-fi writer in the world, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated ManBut he also lived a fascinating life outside the parameters of sci-fi, and was a masterful raconteur of his own story, as he reveals in his wide-ranging and in-depth final interview with his acclaimed biographer, ... Read more

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  • The New Mutants

    Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

    by Ramzi Fawaz ...
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  • Unvarnishing Reality

    Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire

    by Derek C. Maus ...
    Unvarnishing Reality draws original insight to the literature, politics, history, and culture of the cold war by closely examining the themes and goals of American and Russian satirical fiction. As Derek C. Maus illustrates, the paranoia of nuclear standoff provided a subversive storytelling mode for authors from both nations—including Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, John Barth, Walker Percy, Don ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction

    Edited by Gerry Canavan, Eric Carl Link ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the country's hopes, desires, ambitions, and fears. The ideas and conventions associated with science fiction are pervasive throughout American film and ... Read more

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  • Travis McGee & Me

    Reflections on the Man from Slip F-18

    by D. R. Martin ...
    Travis McGee & Me is D. R. Martin’s book-by-book personal take on the famous boat bum hero created by John D. MacDonald. The twenty-one McGee novels have been continuously in print since their original publication dates, from 1964 to 1985. Not only have they been tremendously popular with readers, they have inspired generations of crime fiction writers.These essays are partly book reports, and ... Read more

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  • James M. Cain

    Hard-Boiled Mythmaker

    by David Madden, Kristopher Mecholsky, Max Allan Collins ...
    James M. Cain wrote some of the grittiest novels in American literature, including such classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce. James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker is a critical overview of the author's life, work, and legacy. An updated and expanded edition of two of David Madden's scholarly works on Cain, this new book improves upon the previous works ... Read more

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  • This England in Raymond Chandler

    by Malcolm Noble ...
    Emphasising the influence of Raymond Chandler's English background, Malcolm Noble encourages a new generation of Chandler readers to look further into this writer's life and work.    "There is so much in Chandler's work that deserves to be expanded, debated and, in most cases, celebrated.   I do hope that this one brief foray will encourage some new readers not only to enjoy that 'smell of fear' ... Read more

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  • The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America

    by Sandra Baringer ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Through close reading of texts ranging from novels (Pynchon's Vineland, Silko's Almanac of the Dead, Pierce's The Turner Diaries) to prison literature, this book examines the ways in which narratives of suspicion are both constitutive--and ... Read more

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  • The Musical Novel

    Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction

    by Emily Petermann ...
    What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar tothose of music. It takes music as a model for its own construction, borrowing techniques and forms that range from immediately perceptible, essential aspects of music ... Read more

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