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" But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything. "
Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing His Works for Cinema and Television - Seite 120
herausgegeben von - 2014 - 203 Seiten
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Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture

John G. Cawelti - 1976 - 344 Seiten
...conception of the hard-boiled detective more eloquently than Raymond Chandler, one of his major creators: Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself...hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man The Hard-Boiled Detective Story 151 and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather...
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Firearms Legislation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Crime of the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - 1975 - 472 Seiten
...preserve the honor and Integrity of his character. As Raymond Chandler eloquently expressed this myth : "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afrnid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything. He...
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Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture

John G. Cawelti - 1976 - 344 Seiten
...valueless universe, but a lone ranger who somehow redeems the world by his bravery and decency: But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.31 At the same time, Chandler was enough of a realist to want his hero to be a plausible contemporary...
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Something More Than Night: The Case of Raymond Chandler

Peter Wolfe - 1985 - 262 Seiten
...of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony .... But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself...tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story can be such a man. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and...
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Private Eyes: One Hundred and One Knights : a Survey of American Detective ...

Robert Allen Baker, Michael T. Nietzel - 1985 - 404 Seiten
..."the mean streets" of such urban centers as New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. (" . . . But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean — who is neither tarnished nor afraid. . .") Many of these novels and stories have been very good; many more have been very bad or (cardinal...
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Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study

David Luban - 1988 - 484 Seiten
...devoted to penny-ante criminal defense, zealous, conscientious, and principled advocates can be found. "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid."22 It happens sometimes. Let us turn, then, to the law in books — the rights of the accused....
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New Australian Cinema: Sources and Parallels in American and British Film

Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer - 1992 - 284 Seiten
...tragedy . . . and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid ... He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honour, by instinct, by inevitability, without...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 Seiten
...narrator (Ferdinand Bardarnu), in journey ю (he End of ihe Night, (1932; lr. 1934; ed. 1966. p. 69). 1 1 , ... He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual...
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Shakespeare Survey, Band 45

Stanley Wells - 2002 - 228 Seiten
...to link him somewhat oddly with Raymond Chandler's hero, Philip Marlowe, citing his famous comment, 'down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid',47 and diminishing the Prince into a tough but humane private eye. Yet this is perhaps the...
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Continuities in Popular Culture: The Present in the Past & the Past in the ...

Ray Broadus Browne, Ronald J. Ambrosetti - 1993 - 280 Seiten
...and, through that Americanness universal, as an extended quote from his statement demonstrates: . . .Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished or afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything....
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