LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:8 August 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Synchronization of Noir and Hardboiled Concepts in
Twentieth Century Crime Fiction

Dr. J. John Sunil Manoah

Abstract

Noir fiction is the name sometimes given to a mode of crime fiction regarded as a subject of the hardboiled style. According to Noir aficionada George Tuttle, in this sub-genre the protagonist is usually not a detective but instead a victim, a suspect, or a perpetrator. He is someone tied directly to the crime, not an outsider called to solve or fix the situation. This genre is most commonly associated with detective stories distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sex. “Hardboiled” didn’t refer exclusively to a type of crime fiction; it meant any tough and violent fiction, which also included adventure and western stories. My study traces the unity and the synchronization of Noir and Hardboiled concepts in Twentieth Century Crime Fiction.

Key Words: Noir, Hardboiled, Crime.

Introduction – What Is Hardboiled?

‘Hard Boiled’ style was pioneered by Carol John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decades and refined by Raymond Chandler beginning in the late 1930s.

Hardboiled detective fiction can be recognized by four main elements: the language, the settings, the detective, and the detection.

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Dr. J. John Sunil Manoah
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Vel Tech University
Avadi
Chennai 600 062
Tamilnadu
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