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Hammett, Dashiell - dəshēlˈ, 1894–1961, American writer, b. St. Mary's co., Maryland. After a variety of jobs, including several years working as a detective for the Pinkerton agency, beginning in the early 1920s he found success as a writer, largely originating the "hard-boiled" school of detective fiction. His stories, about 90 in all, are realistic

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A Dashiell Hammett Companion » Read Now
by Robert L. Gale. 318 pgs.

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Dashiell Hammett's writing career began with the publication of "The Parthian Shot," a tiny short story in The Smart Set in 1922, and virtually ended when he published 3 outstanding stories in Collier's in 1934. During this brief period, he published 60 short stories, 5 novels--including The Maltese...
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Dashiell Hammett's writing career began with the publication of "The Parthian Shot," a tiny short story in The Smart Set in 1922, and virtually ended when he published 3 outstanding stories in Collier's in 1934. During this brief period, he published 60 short stories, 5 novels--including The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man--a few poems, some nonfiction, and several book reviews. Though he published little from 1934 until his death in 1961, his influence continues to this day. This book presents alphabetically arranged entries for Hammett's works, characters, family members, and acquaintances, along with a chronology, a brief general bibliography, and end-of-entry bibliographies for especially detailed entries.
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The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett » Read Now
by Christopher Metress. 262 pgs.

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As one of the most popular American writers of detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett has drawn a diverse range of criticism. The author of The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, and other works, Hammett is now receiving additional attention from scholars who seek to reassess his writing...
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As one of the most popular American writers of detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett has drawn a diverse range of criticism. The author of The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, and other works, Hammett is now receiving additional attention from scholars who seek to reassess his writing. Spanning more than sixty years of critical response, this volume includes reviews of Hammett's novels from the 1920s and 1930s, as well as recent scholarly essays.
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Dark Cinema: American Film Noir in Cultural Perspective ("Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction: Dashiell Hammett" begins on p. 46) » Read Now
by Jon Tuska. 305 pgs.

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...parable Sam Spadetells Brigid OShaughnessy in Dashiell Hammetts THE MALTESE FALCON 1930 . When Spade was an...have been regarded as commercially unfeasible. " Dashiell...
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Which Way Did He Go? The Private Eye in Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, and Ross Macdonald » Read Now
by Edward Margolies. 95 pgs.

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...Go? THE PRIVATE EYE IN DASHIELL HAMMETT RAYMOND CHANDLER, CHESTER HIMES...1 Chapter 2: Dashiell Hammett: Success as Failure 17...only full-length biography of Dashiell...
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San Francisco in Fiction: Essays in a Regional Literature (Chap. 5 "The 'Heart's Field': Dashiell Hammett's Anonymous Territory") » Read Now
by David Fine, Paul Skenazy. 243 pgs.

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This important collection of essays on the writers who have made Los Angeles one of the great cities of twentieth-century literature has been strengthened by the inclusion of three new essays. John Fante, Walter Mosley, and Chester Himes join such writers as Aldous Huxley, F. Scott Fitzgerald...
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This important collection of essays on the writers who have made Los Angeles one of the great cities of twentieth-century literature has been strengthened by the inclusion of three new essays. John Fante, Walter Mosley, and Chester Himes join such writers as Aldous Huxley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Nathanael West, Norman Mailer, James M. Cain, Ross Macdonald, Raymond Chandler, Budd Schulberg, Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, and Thomas Pynchon as well as less familiar writers such as Oscar Zeta Acosta, Horace McCoy, Thomas Sanchez, Marc Norman, and Hysaye Yamamoto in a text that provides a basic literary history of the region. Essays examine such special Los Angeles genres as the detective story and the Hollywood novel, and a chapter is devoted to the film Chinatown.
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City Jungles and Expressionist Reifications from Brecht to Hammett, in Twentieth Century Literature » Read Now
by John Walker. 15 pgs.

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...expressionist resonances in Dashiell Hammetts work are so pronounced that...The detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett reproduces the model of human...article, "Forms of...
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An Introduction to the Detective Story (Chap. 10 "The Hard-Boiled Story") » Read Now
by Leroy Lad Panek. 214 pgs.

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...An Introduction to the Detective Story An Introduction to the Detective Story LeRoy Lad Panek Bowling Green State University Popular Press Bowling Green, Ohio...
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The Reader and the Detective Story (Includes discussion of Dashiell Hammett in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by George N. Dove. 204 pgs.

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The Reader and the Detective Story is unique in the criticism of detective fiction, in the sense that it treats the detective story as a special case of reading, governed by special rules and shaped by a highly specialized formula. The method of interpretation is the application of the principles of...
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The Reader and the Detective Story is unique in the criticism of detective fiction, in the sense that it treats the detective story as a special case of reading, governed by special rules and shaped by a highly specialized formula. The method of interpretation is the application of the principles of Response Theory (especially those developed by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Wolfgang Iser, and Hans Robert Jauss) to the reading of a tale of detection. Dove shows how the "English" soft-boiled mystery and the "American" private eye story, although they have different settings and develop different plots, belong in the same subgenre and follow the same formula, inherited directly from Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". The Reader and the Detective Story is bound to arouse controversy and to stimulate a reexamination of the nature and purpose of detective fiction.
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Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction ("Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)" begins on p. 44) » Read Now
by Frankie Y. Bailey. 196 pgs.

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This first sociohistorical study of the evolution of black detectives and other African American characters in crime and detective fiction identifies stereotypical images of blacks and probes the implied values and collective fantasies found in this genre. Bailey argues that a "mythology of race"...
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This first sociohistorical study of the evolution of black detectives and other African American characters in crime and detective fiction identifies stereotypical images of blacks and probes the implied values and collective fantasies found in this genre. Bailey argues that a "mythology of race" consisting of themes of sex and savagery exists in the U.S. and is perpetuated in popular culture. Additionally, fourteen crime and detective fiction writers present their views on creating black characters and a directory includes a sampling of cases featuring black characters, a list of black detectives, relevant works of fiction, film, television, and more.
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An Anomaly in the Maltese Falcon, in ANQ » Read Now
by Peter P. Gillis. 3 pgs.

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...Maltese Falcon After acquiring the film rights to Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon , Warner Bros. had the good...Zurich: Stocker-Schmid Dietikon. 1992 , Hammett...