Re: RARA-AVIS: Class consciousness in hard boiled

Matthew Stevens (mfs10@columbia.edu)
Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:21:04 -0400 > Does anyone have any thoughts on class consciuosness as an element of
> hard boiled fiction?
>
Well, as you probably know, Robert Parker has thought aloud about this
topic. He has an essay about it in the collection, MURDER INK. He claimed
that it is (or was) common to think of the hard-boiled detective in Marxist
terms (as "the honest proletariat"), a view he strongly objected to.
Unfortunately, I can't find any additional references in his article.

Matt Stevens
#
# To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to majordomo@icomm.ca.
# The web pages for the list are at http://www.vex.net/~buff/rara-avis/.