James Ellroy [electronic resource] : Demon Dog of Crime Fiction /
Powell, Steven.author.
James Ellroy: Demon Dog of Crime Fiction is a study of all of Ellroy's key works, from his debut novel Brown's Requiem to the epic Underworld USA trilogy. This book traces the development of Ellroy's writing style and the importance of his Demon Dog persona to carving out his unique place in American crime fiction.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Lee Earle Ellroy and the Avon Novels; The last days of Lee Earle Ellroy; Brown's Requiem: death and rebirth; Clandestine: the anti-private detective phase; Stray dogs: 'The Confessions of Bugsy Siegel' and Killer on the Road; The Avon characters and new writing styles; 2 The Lloyd Hopkins Novels: Ellroy's Displaced Romantic; 'L.A. Death Trip': the genesis of Lloyd Hopkins; Blood on the Moon; Because the Night; Suicide Hill; The Lloyd Hopkins novels: the incomplete series
3 James Ellroy, Jean Ellroy and Elizabeth Short: The Demon Dog and Transmogrification in The Black Dahlia'You are free to speculate': Ellroy and the Black Dahlia; The Black Dahlia; 'I wrote the last page and wept': Ellroy's Continuing Black Dahlia Narratives; 'Now we know who killed her, and why': Ellroy and the Black Dahlia true-crime sub-genre; Perfidia: Ellroy's Black Dahlia legacy; 4 Developing Noir: The Los Angeles Quartet; After The Black Dahlia: the evolution of Ellroy's writing process; The Big Nowhere and 'Man Camera'; L.A. Confidential and Ellrovian prose
White Jazz: apocalypse noirThe legacy and return of the LA Quartet; 5 The Narrative of Secret Histories in the Underworld USA Trilogy; American Tabloid; The Cold Six Thousand; Blood's a Rover; Conclusion: 'I have paid a dear and savage price to live history'; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
James Ellroy: Demon Dog of Crime Fiction is a study of all of Ellroy's key works, from his debut novel Brown's Requiem to the epic Underworld USA trilogy. This book traces the development of Ellroy's writing style and the importance of his Demon Dog persona to carving out his unique place in American crime fiction.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.