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001 2015029738
003 DLC
005 20150910202714.0
008 150909s2016 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2015029738
020 $a9781784782160 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS3505.H3224$bZ676 2016
082 00 $a813/.52$223
084 $aLIT000000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aJameson, Fredric.
245 10 $aRaymond Chandler :$bthe detections of totality /$cFredric Jameson.
263 $a1603
264 1 $aNew York :$bVerso,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler's work based on reconstructing both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler's invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a gigantic city built on deliberately ignoring nature, broken into a multitude of private worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum, an absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler, the thriller genre becomes metaphysical"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler's work based on reconstructing both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler's invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a gigantic city built on deliberately ignoring nature, broken into a multitude of private worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum, an absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler, the thriller genre becomes metaphysical"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aChandler, Raymond,$d1888-1959$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781784782160.jpg