Identity-Shopping and Postwar Self-Improvement in Patricia Highsmith's "Strangers on a Train."

Patricia Highsmith's first novel, "Strangers on a Train" (1950), is part of a lineage of American novels that depict the perils of aestheticizing class difference, interclass contact and social mobility. Highsmith's protagonist, idealistic architect Guy Haines, is, like Dreiser's Carrie Meeber, a ru...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 21 - 41
Autor principal:	Lukin, Josh
Formato:	Literary Criticism
Publicado:	Indiana University Press Summer2010
Materias:	Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995 Strangers on a Train (Book) Modern literature Seguin, Robert Story plots Narrative inquiry (Research method) Literary form Storytelling Oral interpretation 20th century (Literary period)
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