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Studies in the Novel articles from September 2003
An international literary quarterly that publishes literary criticism and scholarship on the novel. Includes essays on well-known and lesser-known novelists of all periods and countries. Contents include essays, reviews of recent books on novels and novel
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Studies in the Novel archives from September 2003
Introduction: the complex history of a "simple art".(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... In July of 1999, when I went to UCLA to look at the letters of Raymond Chandler, the traffic jam around his papers rivaled the ones out on the Los Angeles freeways. There were no fewer than four people that afternoon in the Special Collections...
"Nothing you can't fix": screening Marlowe's masculinity.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... While a fundamental pleasure in film spectatorship consists of viewer identification with the characters on the screen, Slavoj Zizek has suggested that what makes American film noir so compelling for today's audiences is not a viewer...
Film adaptation and the censors: 1940s Hollywood and Raymond Chandler.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Although their author would not necessarily agree that the film versions of his work were in any way successful, Raymond Chandler's novels have been thoroughly and interestingly adapted for the screen. From the gritty chiaroscuro of Murder, My...
No order from chaos: the absence of Chandler's extra-legal space in the detective fiction of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley.(influence of Raymond Chandler)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Raymond Chandler, in "The Simple Art of Murder," offers a definition of the hard-boiled detective which also seems to be a definition of man as empowered moral crusader: "But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is...
Chandler's waste land.(influence of T.S. Eliot in the works of Raymond Chandler)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.
--T. S. Eliot (1919)
In The Long Goodbye (1953), Philip Marlowe finds himself investigating the murder of a woman whose own father, the...
Marlowe in mirrorshades the cyberpunk (Re-)vision of Chandler.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Mirrored sunglasses have been a Movement totem since the early days of '82. The reasons for this are not hard to grasp. By hiding the eyes, mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous....
Plotting Chandler's Demise: Ross Macdonald and the Neo-Aristotelian detective novel.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... I hope you weren't upset by my being upset about Chandler, but it was important at the time that on the occasion of the publication of The Moving Target, Chandler should have written to James Sandoe, then the top mystery critic in the US.,...
Dalsimer, Katherine. Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 206 pp. $24.95.
The title of Katherine Dalsimer's previous Yale book, Female Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Literature, suggests how, as a clinical psychologist, Dalsimer interrelates...
Hermann, Anne. Queering the Moderns: Poses/Portraits/Performance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: Palgrave, 2000. 197 pp. $49.95
The twentieth century was obsessed with identity. Jane Eyre needed a number of chapters to discover her true feelings, but she always knew who she was. Even Pip in Great Expectations grows into his...
Heusel, Barbara Stevens. Iris Murdoch's Paradoxical Novels: Thirty Years of Critical Reception.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2001. 185 pp. $55.00.
Barbara Stevens Heusel's Iris Murdoch's Paradoxical Novels: Thirty Years of Critical Reception is a valuable resource for those interested in the works of the recently deceased British...
McGee, Patrick. Joyce beyond Marx: History and Desire in "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake".(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. 320 pp. $55.00.
For a quarter century, from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, the Rev. Robert Boyle, S. J., stood out as one of the most engaging critics of the writings of James Joyce....
Weisberg, David. Chronicles of Disorder: Samuel Beckett and the Cultural Politics of the Modern Novel.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Albany: State University of New York, 2000. vii + 194 pp. $55.00 hardcover; $18.95 paperback.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Samuel Beckett became the subject of spirited disagreement between two of the leading critics of the Frankfurt...