“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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LED - Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto
2018-02-01
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| Series: | Linguae &. Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/linguae/article/view/1248 |