V2nd - chapter 11 - more examples - Bastardized?

[Mark Kohut]

And I learn herein that Hammet gave his characters Dickensian
names, Sam Spade one of the least of them......

And I was reminded apropos of all our Street discussion in V.
that Chandler was famous for the 'mean streets' line............


----- Original Message ----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 6:19:39 PM
Subject: Re: V2nd - chapter 11 - more examples - Bastardized?

There is a wonderful discussion of these issues in Martin Priestman's
(editor) Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction; it includes a
discussion of Pynchon, postmodern and modern, detective and
anti-detective, McHale, Oedipus....and you may read it online.