Reading Murder In Six Major American Novels
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| Author | : Lana A. Whited |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2020-11-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1476672245 |
With the 1965 publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote declared he broke new literary ground. But Capote's "nonfiction novel" belongs to a long Naturalist tradition originating in the work of 19th-century French novelist Emile Zola. Naturalism offers a particular response to the increasing problem of violence in American life and its sociological implications. This book traces the origins of the fact-based homicide novel that emerged in the mainstream of American literature with works such as Frank Norris's McTeague and flourished in the twentieth century with works such as Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and Richard Wright's Native Son. At their heart is a young man isolated from community who acts out in desperate circumstances against someone who reflects his isolation. A tension develops between how society views this killer and the way he is viewed by the novelist. The crimes central to these narratives epitomize the vast gap between those who can aspire to the so-called "American dream" and those with no realistic chance of achieving it.
| Author | : Sara Bennett Wealer |
| Publisher | : Delacorte Press |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2020-07-14 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1984896245 |
For fans of Jenny Han and Christine Riccio comes a romantic dramedy about a teen girl who stumbles upon a mysterious website that tells her everything she doesn't want to know about her future. There's something about Truman Alexander that Skyler Finch finds incredibly annoying. Actually, several things: his voice (grating), his arrogance (total know-it-all), his debate-team obsession (eyeroll), and his preppy vibe (does he iron his shorts?). She does her best to avoid him and focus on the important stuff: friends, school, and her boyfriend, Eli. His promposal was perfect--just like he is--and the future is looking bright. Or is it? For some unexplainable reason, Skylar's phone is sending her notifications from the future . . . a future in which, to her horror, she appears to be with Truman. As in, romantically. As in, Skyler cannot let that happen. But trying to change the future means messing up the present, and what Skyler sees keeps shifting. Classmates disappear and reappear, swap partners and futures. Turns out there are no actions without reactions, and life doesn't come with a road map. But sometimes the wandering leads you exactly where you need to be, and people--like glitchy phones--are full of surprises.
| Author | : Gwen Bristow |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 1930 |
| Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
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| Author | : John Sandford |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2012-10-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101602104 |
They were average kids looking for something to do. Today they started killing people. A modern-day Bonnie and Clyde are on the run through rural Minnesota—victim by victim they’re having the time of their lives. But when Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers joins the hunt for the thrill-hungry kids, things take a shocking detour.
| Author | : Little, Brown Book Group Limited |
| Publisher | : Sphere |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-11-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780751566154 |
*WINNER OF THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER WITH THE TRIALS OF MARGARET BY L. C. TYLER* In honour of multi award-winning author Peter Lovesey, the members of the Detection Club have written twenty-two twisty - and twisted - short stories that will take you on a journey from cosy English towns to the glaciers of Iceland and the glittering towers of Dubai. The collection is edited by current Detection Club president Martin Edwards and features stories from Ann Cleeves, Simon Brett, Andrew Taylor and several other best-loved crime authors. The Detection Club was founded by the crème de la crime of British crime writing in 1930 and its members included Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley and the Club's first president, G. K. Chesterton. The Detection Club was a way for crime writers to get together, socialise and discuss ideas, a tradition that continues to this day. Authors include: Ann Cleeves - Simon Brett - Andrew Taylor - Len Deighton - Peter Lovesey - Michael Jecks - Michael Ridpath - Kate Ellis - Ruth Dudley Edwards - Alison Joseph - L. C. Tyler - Catherine Aird - David Roberts - David Stuart Davies - Janet Laurence - Liza Cody - Martin Edwards - Kate Charles - John Malcolm - Marjorie Eccles - Michael Z. Lewin - Susan Moody
| Author | : B. R. Myers |
| Publisher | : Melville House Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Including: A response to critics, and: Ten rules for "serious" writers, the author continues his fight on behalf of the American reader, arguing against pretension in so-called "literary" fiction, naming names and exposing the literary status quo.
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| Total Pages | : 1264 |
| Release | : 1910 |
| Genre | : Periodicals |
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| Author | : Anna Lorraine Guthrie |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1466 |
| Release | : 1904 |
| Genre | : Periodicals |
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An author subject index to selected general interest periodicals of reference value in libraries.
| Author | : Richard B. Schwartz |
| Publisher | : SIU Press |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780809321360 |
Schwartz speculates that Johnson - who revered hard facts, a wide cultural base, and common sense - would have exhibited scant patience with the heavily academic approaches currently favored in the study of literature. He considers it probable that the combatants in the early struggles of the culture wars are losing energy and that, in the wake of Alvin Kernan's declaration of the death of literature, new battlegrounds are developing. Ironically admiring the orchestration and staging of battles old and new - "superb" he calls them - he characterizes the entire culture war as a "battle between straw men, carefully constructed by the combatants to sustain a pattern of polarization that could be exploited to provide continuing professional advancement."
| Author | : Leslie A. Fiedler |
| Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
| Total Pages | : 524 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781564781635 |
"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post
