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The Complex Art of Murder

McGregor, Rafe

The Journal of aesthetic education, 2022-10, Vol.56 (3), p.63-80 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Champaign: University of Illinois Press

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  • Título:
    The Complex Art of Murder
  • Autor: McGregor, Rafe
  • Assuntos: Aesthetic Education ; Aesthetics ; Chandler, Raymond ; Complexity ; Crime ; Crime fiction ; DeMille, Nelson ; Education ; Essays ; Fiction ; Genre ; Heidegger, Martin ; Literary criticism ; Memory disorders ; Mysteries ; Novellas ; Novels
  • É parte de: The Journal of aesthetic education, 2022-10, Vol.56 (3), p.63-80
  • Descrição: This article demonstrates the literary value of hardboiled detective fiction. I consider two different arguments for literary value, one based on Martin Heidegger's philosophy of art and the other on the tradition of form-content inseparability in literary aesthetics and literary criticism. The former is reliant on the genre's combination of formal complexity with substantive superficiality and the latter on the combination of formal complexity with substantive complexity. I employ Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (1939) and Nelson DeMille's Plum Island (1997) as examples, focusing on the question of whether they have thematic content. I demonstrate that the novels instantiate substantive themes—about corruption, alienation, and moral amnesia—in consequence of which the argument for form-content inseparability is more compelling. I conclude by suggesting that form-content inseparability underpins both the literary value of hardboiled detective fiction and the genre's capacity for aesthetic education.
  • Editor: Champaign: University of Illinois Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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