No Game for Knights: The Arthurian Legend in Hardboiled Detective Fiction
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2009-04-29
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Vanderbilt University
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English Department Honors Thesis. An examination of the presence of Arthurian conventions in the hardboiled detective novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James Ellroy.
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Hammett, Dashiell, detective fiction, Chandler, Raymond, hardboiled, Arthuriana, Tennyson, Alfred Lord, Idylls of the King, Le Morte d'Arthur, American Tabloid, Ellroy, James, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Malory, Sir Thomas