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"We want to get down to the nitty-gritty": The Modern Hardboiled Detective in the Novella Form

This thesis approaches the issue of the detective in the 21st century through the parodic novella form. The main body of the work is a piece of fiction about an amateur detective trying to find a solution to an imagined crime. This comes from my study of detective fiction, starting with Oedipus and ending with twentieth and twenty-first century examples, especially in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Chester Himes, where the detective loses power. The novella follows Whitney Sloat as he acts as detective in a world that can’t let go of the hardboiled traditions. He and the people around him struggle to connect with reality, pursuing a way of life that cannot exist outside of their world.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UTAHS/oai:digitalcommons.usu.edu:etd-5318
Date01 May 2015
CreatorsPack, Kendall G.
PublisherDigitalCommons@USU
Source SetsUtah State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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