Fashion as Communication. How Materials and Colours Forecast Certain Characteristics and Developments in Chandler's Hard-boiled Detective Novel "The Big Sleep"

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Osnabrück, course: American Detective Fiction, language: English, abstract: After a short introduction into the fashion and dress code of the 1930s, I will expand on the meaning of clothes. Furthermore, I will describe and analyse the fashioning and furnishing of four important characters to prove my thesis. In the fourth chapter I will contextualize the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction, going into its characteristics, history, and origin. The fifth chapter contains a conclusion, which sums up all the facts in reference to hard-boiled fiction in general.