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

“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
Subjects:
JAMES CAIN – NOIR NOVEL – ANIMALS – AMERICAN NOIR – THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RING TWICE – SERENADE – MILDRED PIERCE – ANIMAL METAPHOR – VIOLENCE – AMERICAN ROMAN NOIR
Online Access:http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/linguae/article/view/1248
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“A Jaguar is an Awful Cat”. Animals and Animal Metaphors in James M. Cain’s Novels
Linguae &. Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne
JAMES CAIN – NOIR NOVEL – ANIMALS – AMERICAN NOIR – THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RING TWICE – SERENADE – MILDRED PIERCE – ANIMAL METAPHOR – VIOLENCE – AMERICAN ROMAN NOIR
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topic JAMES CAIN – NOIR NOVEL – ANIMALS – AMERICAN NOIR – THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RING TWICE – SERENADE – MILDRED PIERCE – ANIMAL METAPHOR – VIOLENCE – AMERICAN ROMAN NOIR
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