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Presenting a study of American detective fiction, this title examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. It identifies and categorizes popular works according to the fictional protagonist's hysteria, obsessive neurosis, perversion, or psychosis.

It Didnt Mean Anything A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction

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      Publisher: McFarland & Company
      Publication Date: 3/17/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780786434541, 978-0786434541
      ISBN10: 0786434546

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      Book Synopsis
      Presenting a study of American detective fiction, this title examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. It identifies and categorizes popular works according to the fictional protagonist's hysteria, obsessive neurosis, perversion, or psychosis.

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