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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: It didn't mean anything
    sub title: a psychoanalytic reading of American detective fiction
  title info:
    title: It did not mean anything
  name:
    name part: Howe, Alexander N.
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 285 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Alexander N. Howe.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories, American
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Psychoanalysis and literature
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    topic: Psychological aspects
  classification: PS374.D4 H69 2008
  classification: 813/.0872093561
  identifier: 9780786434541 (softcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0786434546 (softcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2008003190
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 080123
    record change date: 20151109044008.0
    record identifier: in00002375761