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It Didn't Mean Anything: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction
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It Didn't Mean Anything: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction Paperback - 2008

by Howe, Alexander N

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Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2008. Paperback. Very Good+/None. 2008 Our photos depict the actual book offered. Bright and clean pictorial softcover with yellow, uncreased spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. 8vo. Ships from our family-owned bookstore in the US. BOOK INFO: 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. The first chapter identifies several instances of hysteria within the fiction of two of the genre's pioneers, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. Chapter Two traces the development of the hard-boiled detective's code of honor through the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane, identifying the often-paradoxical nature of this code and its origins in obsessive neurosis. Chapter Three analyzes the anti-detective fiction of Philip K. Dick in terms of paranoid psychosis, and the final chapter returns to the question of hysteria, taking up the female hard-boiled detectives of author Marcia Muller.
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  • Title It Didn't Mean Anything: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction
  • Author Howe, Alexander N
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good+/None
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, Jefferson, NC and London
  • Date 2008
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 21554
  • ISBN 9780786434541 / 0786434546
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.05 x 5.99 x 0.68 in (22.99 x 15.21 x 1.73 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects American fiction - 20th century - History, Detective and mystery stories, American -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008003190
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.087

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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About the author

Alexander N. Howe is a professor of English at the University of the District of Columbia. His work focuses on genre fiction and film, and he has written on Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Louisa May Alcott, and Marcia Muller. He lives in Rockville, Maryland.

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