Format:
IX, 285 S.
,
graph. Darst.
ISBN:
0786434546
,
9780786434541
Content:
Introduction : reading the detective and the analyst encore -- The classical detective : truth, knowledge, and the imbecility of the master -- "Protective thinking" : obsessional neurosis, analysis and the hard-boiled detective -- Hysteria, paranoia, and love in Philip K. Dick's anti-detective fiction -- Remembering, repeating, and working through : traumatic narrative in the hard-boiled fiction of Marcia Muller
Content:
"This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. Applying the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the author identifies and categorizes popular works according to the fictional protagonist's hysteria, obsessive neurosis, perversion, or psychosis"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction : reading the detective and the analyst encore -- The classical detective : truth, knowledge, and the imbecility of the master -- "Protective thinking" : obsessional neurosis, analysis and the hard-boiled detective -- Hysteria, paranoia, and love in Philip K. Dick's anti-detective fiction -- Remembering, repeating, and working through : traumatic narrative in the hard-boiled fiction of Marcia Muller
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
USA
;
Kriminalliteratur
;
Psychoanalyse
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