Marc Seals wrote: I don't think that the story reference is
to Maupassant; William Marling suggests that it's more likely
a reference to Somerset Maugham's "Mr. Know-all." If you've
never read Marling, I think he's perhaps the best literary
critic of the genre.
***************** What! It's not a reference to "The
Necklace?" But the story is about a woman who loses a
necklace and, and... I'll have to read the Maugham
story.
I've got Marling's AMERICAN ROMAN NOIR. He's really sharp. I
have some trouble understanding him sometimes, though. He
starts out a paragraph with:
"The tendency of Chandler's metaphors is to posit a
mechanistic post-Einsteinian world, a world of time, space,
mass, motion, and inertia." Now that's some pretty wild
stuff. I didn't have a clue as to what he was talking about
until he wrapped it up neatly at the end of the paragraph:
"The physics stands out, but the metonymy supplants
synecdoche in this progression." Why didn't he just say that
in the first place?
Best of luck on your dissertation, Marc.
miker
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