The Complex Art of Murder

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
R. McGregor
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Abstract:This article demonstrates the literary value of hardboiled detective fiction. I consider two different arguments for literary value, one based on Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of art and the other on the tradition of form-content inseparability in literary aesthetics and literary criticism. The former is reliant on the genre’s combination of formal complexity with substantive superficiality and the latter on the combination of formal complexity with substantive complexity. I employ Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (1939) and Nelson DeMille’s Plum Island (1997) as examples, focusing on the question of whether they have thematic content. I demonstrate that the novels instantiate substantive themes—about corruption, alienation, and moral amnesia—in consequence of which the argument for form-content inseparability is more compelling. I conclude by suggesting that form-content inseparability underpins both the literary value of hardboiled detective fiction and the genre’s capacity for aesthetic education.
谋杀的复杂艺术
摘要:本文论证了精装侦探小说的文学价值。关于文学价值,我考虑了两种不同的论点,一种是基于马丁·海德格尔的艺术哲学,另一种是关于文学美学和文学批评中形式内容不可分割的传统。前者依赖于形式复杂性与实质肤浅性的结合,后者依赖于形式复杂度与实质复杂性的结合。我以Raymond Chandler的《大睡眠》(1939)和Nelson DeMille的《梅花岛》(1997)为例,重点讨论它们是否有主题内容的问题。我证明,这些小说实例化了实质性的主题——关于腐败、异化和道德健忘症——因此,形式-内容不可分割性的论点更具说服力。最后,我提出,形式-内容的不可分割性是精装侦探小说的文学价值和该类型美育能力的基础。
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JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION
JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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0.50
自引率
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Aesthetic Education (JAE) is a highly respected interdisciplinary journal that focuses on clarifying the issues of aesthetic education understood in its most extensive meaning. The journal thus welcomes articles on philosophical aesthetics and education, to problem areas in education critical to arts and humanities at all institutional levels; to an understanding of the aesthetic import of the new communications media and environmental aesthetics; and to an understanding of the aesthetic character of humanistic disciplines. The journal is a valuable resource not only to educators, but also to philosophers, art critics and art historians.
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