Critical Essays on Elmore Leonard - If It Sounds Like Writing

List of contents

Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Charles J. Rzepka
Part I Topics and Themes 9
1 Nostalgia and Authenticity in Elmore Leonard's Conflicted Heroes 11
Michael Scrivener
2 Elmore Leonard and the Romantic Comedy, or "Get Some Love into It" 27
Michael Sinowitz
3 The Sense of Place in Elmore Leonard's Crime Fiction 41
David Geherin
4 Visual Clues: Dress, Appearance, and Perception in Elmore Leonard's Crime Fiction 57
Frankie Y. Bailey
5 The Mozart of the Motor City: Elmore Leonard and Noir Buffa 73
Kris Mecholsky
Part II Five Case Studies 93
6 The Man with Five Names: Hombre on Race and the Cinematic Western 95
Korine Powers
7 Pitching Cinematic Identification in Get Shorty 113
Philip Derbesy
8 "It's the way they're done": Style and Legerdemain in Out of Sight 127
Charles J. Rzepka
9 Moral Luck and Determinism in Rum Punch 147
Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis
10 Disjointed Djibouti: Elmore Leonard's Final Metafiction 165
George Grella and Charles J. Rzepka
Index 183

About the author

Charles J. Rzepka is Professor of English at Boston University, where he teaches courses in British Romanticism and detective and crime fiction. He is the author of Detection: A Cultural History and Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard and is the co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction. He has published extensivelyon the major Romantic authors and on writers of crime and detective fiction, including essays on Raymond Chandler, William Godwin, and Todd Downing.

Product details

• Authors: Charles J. Rzepka, Charles J. (Boston University) Rzepka, Cj Rzepka
• Assisted by: Charles J Rzepka (Editor), Charles J. Rzepka (Editor), Charles J. (Boston University) Rzepka (Editor), Rzepka Charles J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2020
• EAN: 9781119576693
• ISBN: 978-1-119-57669-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Literature: history and criticism