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THE ROAD TO HAMMER
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2012
Abstract
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels rank among the most popular texts in American fiction. Despite Spillane's enormous popularity, or perhaps because of it, there remains little critical consideration of his works. Spillane's work has been dismissed as overly simplistic, highly formulaic, and hyper-violent by the literary community. I assert that Spillane's work serves both as an archive of the popular cultural turmoil of late modernity and as a vehicle to forward Spillane's own hyper-masculine politics. Considering Spillane in the context of other hardboiled writers illuminates the ideological nature of Spillane's Mike Hammer novels. While other writers of the genre used the detective story as a means to articulate nuanced modernist discourses, Spillane flouts this tradition in a dangerously simplistic attempt to forward a highly nationalistic, neoliberalist-masculine ideology.
Details
- Title
- THE ROAD TO HAMMER
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Identifiers
- 99380090844406600
- Academic Unit
- English
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida