Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald
Lahir	Kenneth Millar; 13 Desember 1915; Los Gatos, California
Meninggal	11 Juli 1983 (umur 67); Santa Barbara, California
Nama pena	John Macdonald, John Ross Macdonald, Ross Macdonald
Pekerjaan	Novelis
Kebangsaan	Amerika – Kanada
Almamater	University of Western Ontario, Universitas Michigan
Genre	Crime fiction
Pasangan	Margaret Millar (m. 1938)
Anak	1

Ross Macdonald adalah nama samaran utama yang digunakan oleh penulis Amerika-Kanada beraliran fiksi kejahatan. Nama aslinya Kenneth Millar(/ˈmɪlər/; 13 Desember 1915 – 11 Juli 1983). Ia terkenal karena serial novel hardboiled yang dibuat di California Selatan dan menampilkan detektif swasta Lew Archer. Sejak tahun 1970-an, karya-karya Macdonald (khususnya novel-novel Archer) telah mendapat perhatian di kalangan akademisi.^[1]^[2]^[3] untuk kedalaman psikologis mereka,^[4]^[5] rasa tempat,^[6]^[7]^[8] penggunaan bahasa,^[9] citra yang canggih^[10] dan integrasi filsafat ke dalam genre fiksi.^[11]

Dibesarkan di provinsi Ontario, Kanada, Macdonald akhirnya menetap di negara bagian California, di mana ia meninggal pada tahun 1983.

Catatan

^ Grogg, S., Jr. (1973), Ross MacDonald: At the Edge. The Journal of Popular Culture, 7: 213-224. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1973.00213.x
^ Browne, Ray B. Ross Macdonald: Revolutionary Author and Critic; or the Need for the Oath of Macdonald.Journal of Popular Culture; Oxford Vol. 24, Iss. 3, (Winter 1990): 101.
^ Sacks, Sheldon. “The Pursuit of Lew Archer.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 6, no. 2, 1979, pp. 231–238. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1343244. Accessed 17 Feb. 2021.
^ Paul Skenazy. “Bringing It All Back Home: Ross Macdonald's Lost Father.” The Threepenny Review, no. 12, 1983, pp. 9–11. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4383163. Accessed 17 Feb. 2021.
^ Fox, Terry Curtis. Psychological Guilt: Ross Macdonald. Film Comment; New York Vol. 20, Iss. 5, (Sep/Oct 1984): 34,80.
^ Samuel L. Grogg, Jr. (1974)Between the Mountains and the Sea: The Novels of Ross Macdonald, Ph.D. thesis, Bowling Green University
^ Michael Kreyling. “Lew Archer, House Whisperer.” South Central review. 27.1 (2010): 123–143. Web.
^ Bacevich, Andrew. “A Not-So-Golden State: The Detective Stories of Ross Macdonald.” The Baffler, no. 29, 2015, pp. 122–126., www.jstor.org/stable/43959251. Accessed 17 Feb. 2021.
^ Christianson, S.R. (1989), Tough Talk and Wisecracks: Language as Power in American Detective Fiction. The Journal of Popular Culture, 23: 151-162. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1989.00151.x
^ Pry, Elmer R. "Ross Macdonald’s Violent California: Imagery Patterns in The Underground Man." Western American Literature, vol. 9 no. 3, 1974, p. 197-203. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/wal.1974.0006.
^ SHARP, MICHAEL D. “PLOTTING CHANDLER'S DEMISE: ROSS MACDONALD AND THE NEO-ARISTOTELIAN DETECTIVE NOVEL.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 35, no. 3, 2003, pp. 405–426. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/29533588. Accessed 17 Feb. 2021.

Referensi

Bruccoli, Matthew J. Ross Macdonald. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. ISBN 0-15-179009-4 | ISBN 0-15-679082-3
"Ross Macdonald: Family Affairs" in S. T. Joshi, Varieties of Crime Fiction, pp. 97–106, (Wildside Press, 2019) ISBN 978-1-4794-4546-2
Kreyling, Michael. "The Novels of Ross Macdonald" University of South Carolina Press, 2005. ISBN 1-57003-577-6
Nolan, Tom. Ross Macdonald: A Biography. New York: Scribner, 1999. ISBN 0-684-81217-7
Nolan, Tom. "The Archer Files". Crippen & Landru 2007
Schopen, Bernard A., "Ross MacDonald", Twayne Publishers, Boston, 1990. ISBN 0-8057-7548-X