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Isn't Justice Always Unfair?
J. Kenneth Van DoverJohn F. Jebb
其他書名
The Detective in Southern Literature
出版Popular Press, 1996
主題Literary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Mystery & DetectiveLiterary Criticism / American / RegionalSocial Science / Popular Culture
ISBN08797272339780879727239
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4jrTkiGLmnsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Isn't Justice Always Unfair? explores the uncommonly long and uncommonly rich relationship between the fictional detective and his or her South. It begins with the New Orleans expatriate, Legrand, uncovering Captain Kidd's treasure on an island off Charleston, South Carolina; it covers the satires and parodies of Mark Twain and the polished stories of Melville Davisson Post and Irvin S. Cobb; and it concludes with surveys of the many good and excellent writers who are using the form of the detective story to compose inquiries into the character of life in the South today. At the center of Isn't Justice Always Unfair? lies an analysis of a most remarkable phenomenon: William Faulkner's exploitation of the genre as an avenue into his postage stamp of Southern experience, Yoknapatawpha County.