On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, ejmd wrote:
> > There is the aspect of the
> > corrupt city in almost every hardboiled/noir
book/film, but there is
> > also the healing aspect of nature, e.g. in "The
Asphalt Jungle".
> That's not just hb-/noir; I think that's part of a
more general tendency
> in modernism: eg, Lawrence's city is 'the great
wrong place' while the
> country is presented as idyllic.
You're absolutely right, but I didn't want to extend this
discussion to Romantic poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge) and
people like Rousseau and Herder. I think they are not
hardboiled. With the possible exception of Rousseau - Herbert
Stinson wrote a series about P.I. Pete Rousseau for Black
Mask... But of course this dichotomy between town and country
is prevalent in almost all Western texts since 1800.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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