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- Title
Latin Woostered and Hard-Boiled: The Classical Style of P. G. Wodehouse and Raymond Chandler.
- Authors
RILEY, KATHLEEN
- Abstract
The article discusses aspects of the classical style of P.G. Wodehouse and Raymond Chandler, who have shared the same education at one school at Dulwich College in London, England. Topics mentioned include the importance of classical training in writing novels, the translations of Latin and Greek poetry and the embrace of schoolboy Latin tags and metropolitan slang as well as quotation.
- Subjects
WODEHOUSE, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975; CHANDLER, Raymond, 1888-1959; NOVELISTS; AUTHORSHIP; POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
Arion, 2018, Vol 26, Issue 2, p18
- ISSN
0095-5809
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/arion.26.2.0017