Interview with John Irwin

[...] where Poe's detective stories are central to analytic detective fiction, they probably function more as negative influence (a go-and-do-otherwise paradigm) for hard-boiled fiction, while the Poe stories that are a positive influence for hard-boiled fiction are those that explicitly or imp...

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Published inSouth Central Review Vol. 27; no. 1/2; pp. 171 - 176
Main Authors Foreman, Adrienne, Irwin, John
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.04.2010
Subjects
Detective fiction
Double indemnity
Fiction
Film noir
Fitzgerald, F Scott (1896-1940)
Literary criticism
Literary themes
Literature
Motion pictures
Mysteries
Novelists
Novels
Personal relationships
Philosophical psychology
Protagonists
Women
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Summary:[...] where Poe's detective stories are central to analytic detective fiction, they probably function more as negative influence (a go-and-do-otherwise paradigm) for hard-boiled fiction, while the Poe stories that are a positive influence for hard-boiled fiction are those that explicitly or implicitly elaborate the "perverse" as a motive (e.g. "The Imp of the Perverse," "The Black Cat," "The Tell-Tale Heart") for the characters' self-consciously committing an action that is against their own best interests. Since many of my students are young aspiring writers, I tell them to go to school to their own unconscious, to concentrate on those moments in their pasts that for one reason or another will never lie quiet in their memories, and I give them the example of F.\n It seems to me that Blade Runner is part of this cycle of color noir films.
ISSN:0743-6831
1549-3377
1549-3377
0038-321X
DOI:10.1353/scr.0.0075