{"product_id":"raymond-chandler-the-detections-of-totality-paperback","title":"Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRaymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler's work that reconstructs both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects. Chandler's invariable setting, Los Angeles, appears both as a microcosm of the United States and a prefiguration of its future: a megalopolis uniquely distributed by an unpromising nature into a variety of distinct neighborhoods and private worlds. But this essentially urban and spatial work seems also to be drawn towards a vacuum, an absence that is nothing other than death. With Chandler, the thriller genre becomes metaphysical.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eArchaeologies of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eValences of the Dialectic\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAntinomies of Realism\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Ancients and the Postmoderns\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.6 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766784950560,"sku":"9781784782184","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/467a43630d51bcbe52358de45549228e.webp?v=1780298928","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/raymond-chandler-the-detections-of-totality-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}