“A Jaguar is an Awful Cat”. Animals and Animal Metaphors in James M. Cain’s Novels

James M. Cain is often linked with hard-boiled writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Actually, he wrote a different kind of novels, where there are no ‘private eye’ detectives and very few murders. Robert Polito describes them as Noir Novels, using a term normally associated with th...

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Main Author: Giulio Segato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LED - Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto 2018-02-01
Series:Linguae &. Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne
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Online Access:http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/linguae/article/view/1248