Cornell Woolrich and the Tough-Man Tradition of American Crime Fiction
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Mystery & Detective Fiction
| Author: | Christine Photinos | ISBN: | 9781476624761 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers | Publication: | November 2, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Christine Photinos |
| ISBN: | 9781476624761 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
| Publication: | November 2, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
In recent years, and with increasing frequency, Cornell Woolrich has been categorized as a member of the hard-boiled school of American crime fiction and one of its most important early practitioners. Objections to this categorization notwithstanding, Woolrich’s stories provide critical counterpoints to the work of his better-known contemporaries and to some of the taken-for-granted conventions of early hard-boiled crime fiction. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 28, Issue 2.
In recent years, and with increasing frequency, Cornell Woolrich has been categorized as a member of the hard-boiled school of American crime fiction and one of its most important early practitioners. Objections to this categorization notwithstanding, Woolrich’s stories provide critical counterpoints to the work of his better-known contemporaries and to some of the taken-for-granted conventions of early hard-boiled crime fiction. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 28, Issue 2.
