Being cool : Elmore Leonard and the work of writing / Charles J. Rzepka.
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- ISBN: 9781421410159 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 142141015X (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: ix, 225 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]--216) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Being cool: Learning authenticity -- Being other(s): "Making" imaginary friends -- Plays well with others: Take five -- Choruses: After 1980 -- Conclusion: What happens next?. |
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Subject: | Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013 > Authorship. Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013 > Criticism and interpretation. Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism. |
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Being Cool : The Work of Elmore Leonard
Charles J. Rzepka is a professor of English at Boston University and author of Inventions and Interventions: Selected Studies in Romantic and American Literature, History, and Culture; Detective Fiction; Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in De Quincey; and The Self as Mind: Vision and Identity in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats.