Boilerplate Potboilers: William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway

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Peter Swirski

American Crime Fiction: A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art, pp.69-91

2016

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Title: Boilerplate Potboilers: William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway
Author/Creator: Peter Swirski
Publication Details: American Crime Fiction: A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art, pp.69-91
Annotation: On Faulkner s and Hemingway s forays into the 1930s mass consumer market of hardboiled fiction. Swirski lays out their parallel careers before examining To Have and Have Not, Hemingway s failed hybrid of crime thriller/proletarian novel. Discusses the narrative s adherence to conventions of the genre, weak structure, and confused purpose, which buries its theme of protest within layers of action adventure.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter
Record Identifier: 991015132033803691