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Chaos and madness : the politics of fiction in Stephen Marlowe's historical narratives /

"In the 1950s prolific U.S. fiction writer Stephen Marlowe became a cult author for lovers of noir fiction mainly for his Drumbeat series, which present his best-known character: private eye Chester Drum. Yet, the academia never paid much attention to his multifaceted, extensive oeuvre. Chaos a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Calvo-Pascual, Mónica (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Colección:Costerus ; new ser., v. 188.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; Chapter 1 History and the Novel: An Overview; Chapter 2 Mastering the Art: The Historical Novel and Local Color; Chapter 3 Between Magic and Madness: A Portrait of Spain and Its Neuroses; Chapter 4 Postmodern Critique and the Hand of the Historian; Chapter 5 Chaos, Complexity and Interpretation; Chapter 6 Beyond Reference: Historiographic Metafiction Impinged by Science Fiction; Chapter 7 The Novel Never Ends: On Alternative Worlds, Jewish Connections and Infinite Regress; Concluding Remarks; Appendix I.