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N2  - Though American crime novels are often derided for containing misogynistic attitudes and limiting ideas of masculinity, Greg Forter maintains that they are instead psychologically complex and sophisticated works that demand closer attention. Eschewing the synthetic methodologies of earlier work on crime fiction, Murdering Masculinities argues that the crime novel does not provide a consolidated and stable notion of masculinity. Rather, it demands that male readers take responsibility for the desires they project on to these novels. Forter examines the narrative strategies of five novels--Hammett's The Glass Key, Cain's Serenade, Faulkner's Sanctuary, Thompson's Pop. 1280, and Himes's Blind Man with a Pistol--in conjunction with their treatment of bodily metaphors of smell, vision, and voice. In the process, Forter unearths a "generic unconscious" that reveals things Freud both discovered and sought to repress.
DO  - 10.18574/nyu/9780814728185.001.0001
DO  - doi
AB  - Though American crime novels are often derided for containing misogynistic attitudes and limiting ideas of masculinity, Greg Forter maintains that they are instead psychologically complex and sophisticated works that demand closer attention. Eschewing the synthetic methodologies of earlier work on crime fiction, Murdering Masculinities argues that the crime novel does not provide a consolidated and stable notion of masculinity. Rather, it demands that male readers take responsibility for the desires they project on to these novels. Forter examines the narrative strategies of five novels--Hammett's The Glass Key, Cain's Serenade, Faulkner's Sanctuary, Thompson's Pop. 1280, and Himes's Blind Man with a Pistol--in conjunction with their treatment of bodily metaphors of smell, vision, and voice. In the process, Forter unearths a "generic unconscious" that reveals things Freud both discovered and sought to repress.
T1  - Murdering Masculinities :Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel /
AU  - Forter, Gregory, 
JF  - New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
VL  - 44
CN  - PS374.D4
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1479613
KW  - American fiction
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Crime in literature.
KW  - Criminals in literature.
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, American
KW  - Fantasy in literature.
KW  - Masculinity in literature.
KW  - Men in literature.
KW  - Psychoanalysis and literature
KW  - Violence in literature.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
SN  - 9780814728185
TI  - Murdering Masculinities :Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel /
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