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Title
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The evolution of hard-boiled detective fiction in "Black Mask".
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Creator
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O'Connor, Linda Marie., Florida Atlantic University, Anderson, David R.
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Abstract/Description
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Pulp fiction played an integral part in the development of mystery fiction through its establishment of hard-boiled fiction as a genre. Although a number of pulp magazines were popular between the 1920s and the 1940s, one of the most influential and well-remembered of these magazines was the Black Mask, which was the magazine primarily responsible for establishing "hard-boiled" detective fiction as a genre through the development of the hard-boiled fiction formula, as well as cementing the...
Show morePulp fiction played an integral part in the development of mystery fiction through its establishment of hard-boiled fiction as a genre. Although a number of pulp magazines were popular between the 1920s and the 1940s, one of the most influential and well-remembered of these magazines was the Black Mask, which was the magazine primarily responsible for establishing "hard-boiled" detective fiction as a genre through the development of the hard-boiled fiction formula, as well as cementing the careers of some of the most well-known mystery writers, such as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Erie Stanley Gardner. Through a close reading of these authors and other authors who appeared in the Black Mask from the 1920s to the 1940s, changes in societal values, as well as in hard-boiled fiction as a genre, may be seen.
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Date Issued
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1995
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15141
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Subject Headings
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Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism, Crime in literature, American fiction--20th century, Literature and society--United States, Black mask
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Format
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Document (PDF)
