 | John G. Cawelti - 1976 - 344 頁
...and 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... | |
 | Robert Allen Baker, Michael T. Nietzel - 1985 - 404 頁
...walks "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 - 1988 - 484 頁
...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 - 1992 - 284 頁
...pure 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 - 1993 - 1214 頁
...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 - 2002 - 228 頁
...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 - 1993 - 280 頁
...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.... | |
 | Alison Booth - 1993 - 414 頁
...bins in which they find themselves. "Down these mean streets," as Chandler's oftquoted phrase has it, "a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid ... a man of honor."22 I would argue, however, that this way of putting things reverses evidence and... | |
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But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. 
