The Big Somewhere: Essays on James Ellroy's Noir World
Editat de Dr Steven Powellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 ian 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501361678
ISBN-10: 1501361678
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1501361678
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
Looks at the influence of writers such as Hammett and Chandler on Ellroy as well as, in turn, Ellroy's influence on writers that followed him, such as David Peace
Notă biografică
Steven Powell is an Honorary Fellow in the English Department at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is the editor of Conversations with James Ellroy (2012) and 100 American Crime Writers (2012). His most recent work is James Ellroy: Demon Dog of Crime Fiction (2016).
Cuprins
IntroductionSteven Powell (University of Liverpool, UK)Part I: Genre and Literary Influences1. "Tragic Power": The Influence of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett on the Work of James EllroySteven Powell (University of Liverpool, UK)2. "No Man's Land": Broken Men and Traumatized Police Officers in The Onion Field and The Black DahliaJim Mancall (Wheaton College, USA)Part II: Ellroy and Noir3. "Capable of Anything": Dudley Smith's Role in Ellroy's L.A. QuartetsAnna Flügge (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)4. "Geography is Destiny": Cinematising the City in the L.A. QuartetNathan Ashman (University of Surrey, UK)Part III: "America was Never Innocent": Underworld and Government Power Structures5. Between Althusser and Foucault: Power Relations in James Ellroy's Underworld USA TrilogyRubén Peinado Abarrio (Independent Scholar)6. Paradoxes of Race in the L.A. QuartetJoshua Meyer (University of Western Sydney, Australia)7. The Divine Violence of Underworld USARodney Taveira (University of Sydney, Australia)8. From Paranoia to the Contrary: Plotting the Noir World of James EllroyWoody Haut (Independent Scholar)Part IV: Ellroy and After: The Ellrovian Influence on Authors and Genre9. ''A Pointed Demythologization": The Influence of James Ellroy's Novels on Megan Abbott's Revisionism of the Femme FataleDiana Powell (University of Liverpool, UK)10. Individual and Institutionalised Corruption: The Influence of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet on the Novels of David PeaceDavid Bishop (Independent Scholar) and Steven Powell (University of Liverpool, UK)BibliographyIndex
Recenzii
[Ellroy's] unique qualities as a crime writer are well captured, and cogently analysed, in The Big Somewhere . I think that anyone who is a serious Ellroy fan will find The Big Somewhere insightful and interesting.
The introduction alone making for fascinating reading . with these essays one gains a greater insight into how influential he has been, and continues to be so.
I can do no better than recommend The Big Somewhere . [A] fascinating piece of scholarship.
Steven Powell is fast becoming the authority on James Ellroy, and this excellent edited collection consolidates and enhances this reputation. The essays, uniformly high-quality and wide-ranging in scope, bring together key scholars in the field and offer complex, exciting ways of understanding Ellroy's entire body of work and the contexts that have produced it. Taken as a whole, this immaculately put-together book should be essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellroy, crime fiction and post-WW2 American culture.
Pull down the top of your Eldorado and prepare for a ride through the Big Somewhere, aka the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Steven Powell and his colleagues are ready and able to guide you, and they're not afraid of Ellroy's dark places.
The introduction alone making for fascinating reading . with these essays one gains a greater insight into how influential he has been, and continues to be so.
I can do no better than recommend The Big Somewhere . [A] fascinating piece of scholarship.
Steven Powell is fast becoming the authority on James Ellroy, and this excellent edited collection consolidates and enhances this reputation. The essays, uniformly high-quality and wide-ranging in scope, bring together key scholars in the field and offer complex, exciting ways of understanding Ellroy's entire body of work and the contexts that have produced it. Taken as a whole, this immaculately put-together book should be essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellroy, crime fiction and post-WW2 American culture.
Pull down the top of your Eldorado and prepare for a ride through the Big Somewhere, aka the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Steven Powell and his colleagues are ready and able to guide you, and they're not afraid of Ellroy's dark places.