Standup guys : James Ellroy, George V. Higgins, Elmore Leonard

My thesis, by offering an analysis of their individual stylistic approaches, considers how Ellroy, Higgins and Leonard expand the parameters of the crime fiction genre. The genre is still essentially conservative, a mediating detective/police hero synthesising narrative strands to indicate cause and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaw, Charles Douglas
Published: University of Sussex 2000
Subjects:
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322939