 | John G. Cawelti - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 344 pages
...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... | |
 | John G. Cawelti - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 344 pages
...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... | |
 | Peter Wolfe - Social Science - 1985 - 262 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Allen Baker, Michael T. Nietzel - Social Science - 1985 - 404 pages
..."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... | |
 | David Luban - Law - 1988 - 484 pages
...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.... | |
 | Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 284 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...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... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...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... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Ronald J. Ambrosetti - Social Science - 1993 - 280 pages
...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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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. 
