James Ellroy is an acclaimed yet controversial popular novelist. Since the publication of his
first novel Brown's Requiem in 1981, Ellroy's eccentric “Demon Dog” persona and his highly …

A presente tese analisa as proximidades e diferenças entre os campos da História e
Literatura tendo como objeto de pesquisa a série de romances policiais Quarteto de Los …

Road, and a stunning memoir, My Dark Places (MDP). Almost all take as their subject violent
sex murders and institutional corruption, following the travails of tortured white men working …

This paper demonstrates the hidden similarities between Raymond Chandler's prototypical
noir The Big Sleep, and the United Nations Responsibility to Protect (R2P) document. By …

This article argues that the characterization of the killer in James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere
(1988), together with Ellroy's development as a novelist, can be illuminated through the …

This thesis engages with the concepts of sex, gender, and genre in relation to detective
fiction produced in Cuba and Mexico. In order to do so, it focuses on a total of 4 novels from …