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Exploring Narrator-Reader Relationships with Jim Thompson’s Victims of Circumstance: Lou Ford, Dolly Dillon, William “Kid” Collins, and Charles BiggerUnknown Date (has links)
By examining Jim Thompson’s novels, published between 1952-1955–The Killer
Inside Me, A Hell of a Woman, After Dark, My Sweet, and Savage Night–this essay
interrogates the relationship created between the narrator and the reader, how the
narrator–and Thompson in turn–highlights certain societal flaws, emphasizing how
ethical consequence is born out of the attempt to attain freedom from one’s cultural
circumstance–both in terms of economic restraint and mental health status. Through this,
Thompson implies that the reader is trapped in similar economic and ethical predispositions.
The reader is often left questioning what they might have done, or been able
to do, in similar circumstances. This creates a larger frame by which Thompson implies
that the reader is trapped in similar economic and ethical pre-dispositions as his narrators.
He highlights societal flaws, demonstrating how the pursuit of freedom of one’s cultural
circumstance bears ethical consequence. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
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Mandrake e o hard-boiled: questões de masculinidade(s) entre Rubem Fonseca e a literatura policial norte-americanaParadizzo, Felipe Vieira 28 March 2011 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2011-03-28 / Tendo em vista a importante contribuição dos estudos culturais e literários para o
aprofundamento do debate sobre as narrativas policiais norte-americanas, este estudo pretende
levantar singularidades, rupturas e questões de masculinidade(s) associadas à literatura hardboiled,
de modo a fundamentar uma investigação de sua reverberação na obra de Rubem
Fonseca. Para tal fim, parte-se, principalmente, dos estudos de masculinidade hegemônica
empreendidos por R.W. Connell e seus comentadores, e da análise de três dos maiores
expoentes fundadores do gênero, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler e Jim Thompson.
Considerando essa fundação da literatura policial norte-americana, serão então analisadas
quatro obras protagonizadas pelo personagem Mandrake, ―O Caso F.A‖, ―Dia dos
Namorados‖, ―Mandrake‖ e o romance A Grande Arte. Pretende-se, assim, observar como o
autor se vale dessa tradição da literatura policial, e de suas implicações com questões de
masculinidade(s), para criar uma obra de tamanha potência crítica, estilística e política. / Taking into consideration the important contribution of literary and cultural studies to the
deepening of debate about North-American detective narratives, this study intends to
assemble singularities, disconnections and contemporary masculinity issues associated with
hard-boiled literature, aiming to substantiate an investigation of its influence in Rubem
Fonseca‘s work. In order to do so, we take as a starting point the studies of hegemonic
masculinities, by R.W. Connell and her commentators, and the analysis of three of the genre‘s
founding fathers, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Jim Thompson. Considering the
foundation of North-American detective novel, four works which has Mandrake as its main
character will be analyzed : ―O Caso F.A‖, ―Dia dos Namorados‖, ―Mandrake‖ and the novel
A Grande Arte. Seeking to observe how the author utilizes the hard-boiled tradition and its
implications in masculinities issues in order to create a work of enormous critical, stylistic
and political potency.
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