TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jopi Nyman
PY  - 2012
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653019261
TI  - Hard-Boiled Fiction and Dark Romanticism
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-01926-1
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051863
N2  - Since the 1920s the use of romantic features in the tough masculinist narratives of American hard-boiled fiction has often surprised its readers. Through an exploration of fiction written by four major hard-boiled writers (Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and Horace McCoy), this study explains the genre's fascination with romance from a critical Cultural Studies perspective. It focuses not only on the use of the theme of the waste land and Gothic conventions, but also on the subversion of romance and its ideal hero. The study argues that the romanticism and pathos evident in the genre are antimodern and nostalgic yearnings for a lost world of true individualism and manhood.
KW  - Cultural Studies perspective, American narratives, Hard-Boiled Fiction
LA  - English
ER  -