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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…
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It Didn't Mean Anything: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction Paperback - 2008
by Alexander N. Howe
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- Title It Didn't Mean Anything: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction
- Author Alexander N. Howe
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McFarland & Company, Jefferson, NC USA
- Date 2008-03
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- 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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