Let me suggest that you might be making a mistake if you're avoiding
lit-crit books because of the well publicized excesses of some in the
filed. It's not all deconstrution theory.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Ron Clinton <clinton65@comcast.net> wrote:
> There are a few of that type -- HARDBOILED SENTIMENTALITY, WESTERN AND
> HARDBOILED FICTION FROM HIGH NOON TO MIDNIGHT, GUMSHOE AMERICA: HARDBOILED
> CRIME FICTION AND THE RISE AND FALL OF NEW DEAL LIBERALISM, HARD-BOILED
> MASCULINITY and maybe one of two others -- that initially look good but seem
> to smack of collegiate/doctorate puffery. I've avoided all of them thus
> far. I am, however, less familiar with HARDBOILED SENTIMENTALITY than the
> others, so will be sure to look into that one.
>
> Ron C.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com [mailto:rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com] On
>> Behalf Of Nathan Cain
>> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 12:46 PM
>> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Historical analysis books...
>>
>> Hard Boiled Sentimentality by Leonard Cassuto was a pretty interesting
>> read, even though I'm not completely sold on the thesis.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Ron Clinton <clinton65@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> > Thanks, Mark -- got both of those, too (don't have the Himes bio, but
> then
>> > again I'm not a big Himes fan and DIFFICULT LIVES seemed to covered his
>> > basics just fine). I'm starting to think that maybe I've got this area
>> > covered better than I thought I did. :-)
>> >
>> > Ron
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com [mailto:rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com]
> On
>> >> Behalf Of Mark Sullivan
>> >> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:47 AM
>> >> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>> >> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Historical analysis books...
>> >>
>> >> Ron, Howard Browne's Incredible Ink anthology opens with a 50-60 page
>> > memoir of
>> >> his writing career.
>> >>
>> >> And James Sallis wrote a short book called Difficult Lives with capsule
>> > appraisals of
>> >> Goodis, Himes and Thompson. He later did a full biography of Himes.
>> >>
>> >> Mark
>> >>
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