 | John G. Cawelti - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 344 pages
...handwrought duelling pistols, curare, and tropical fish. He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes.1 That there was a new quality in Hammett's detective stories is certainly the case.... | |
 | Judith Kerman - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 344 pages
...hand-wrought duelling pistols, curare, and tropical fish. He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes. (393, 396) Renewal occurred on both sides of the Atlantic. New energy coursed from... | |
 | Jon Thompson - Crime in literature - 1993 - 212 pages
...hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare, and tropical fish. He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for those purposes" (Howard Haycraft, ed., The Art of the Mystery Story, 234). Though Chandler plays... | |
 | Dennis L. Dworkin, Leslie G. Roman - Education - 1993 - 380 pages
...hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare, and tropical fish. He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for those purposes."2* While Chandler downplays Hammett's stylization of ordinary language, his comments... | |
 | Theo D'haen, Hans Bertens, Johannes Willem Bertens - History - 1995 - 324 pages
...hand-wrought duelling pistols, curare, and tropical fish. He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes. — Raymond Chandler, "The Simple Art of Murder" In "The Simple Art of Murder,"... | |
 | LeRoy Lad Panek - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 224 pages
...Hammett's prose rests on the language his characters speak. As Chandler would have it, "He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them...talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes" (16). But Hammett did not begin this way. In his earliest pieces the speech of... | |
 | Michael Wenzinger - 2007 - 93 pages
...to the kind ofpeople that commit itfor reasons, [...] He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily usedfor these purposes. (Chandler: 989) Dies soll jedoch nicht darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass der von... | |
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Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish. He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made... 