I've been enjoying the discussion so far, and I just wanted
to interject here, but I don't think Miker's saying that the
pessimistic determinism of the American Naturalists is noir,
but that the pessimistic determinism of the American
Naturalists (that's kind of fun to type) is a literary
antecedent to noir. I'm nowhere near as well read in this
area as a lot of members of the list, but given what I have
read and what I know about AmLit, that seems like a fair
assumption. Of course, I'm wicked tired and might be
misreading this whole thing...
Best, Nick
----- Original Message ----- From: "JIM DOHERTY" <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003
7:22 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled and Noir
> The phrase that properly describes the
pessimistic
> determinism of American Naturalists isn't "noir,"
it's
> "The Pressimistic Determinism of American
> Naturalists."
>
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