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02813aam a2200313 i 4500 001 B4BBAE1CA18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161103010209 008 150909s2016 enk 000 0 eng 010 $a 2015029738 020 $a 1784782165 020 $a 9781784782160 035 $a (OCoLC)920966657 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d NYP $d ZCU $d COO $d STF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3505 H3224 Z676 2016 100 1 $a Jameson, Fredric, $e author. 245 10 $a Raymond Chandler : $b the detections of totality / $c Fredric Jameson. 264 1 $a London ; $b Verso, $c 2016. 300 $a 87 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler's work based on reconstructing both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler's invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a gigantic city built on deliberately ignoring nature, broken into a multitude of private worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum, an absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler, the thriller genre becomes metaphysical"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler's work based on reconstructing both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler's invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a gigantic city built on deliberately ignoring nature, broken into a multitude of private worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum, an absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler, the thriller genre becomes metaphysical"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Chandler, Raymond, $d 1888-1959 $x Criticism and interpretation. 856 42 $3 Cover image $u 9781784782160.jpg 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211021046.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20161202013312.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B4BBAE1CA18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search