1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455689903321

Autore

Forter Greg

Titolo

Murdering masculinities [[electronic resource] ] : fantasies of gender and violence in the American crime novel / / Greg Forter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8147-2871-5

0-8147-2818-9

0-585-42491-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Sexual cultures

Disciplina

813/.087209353

Soggetti

Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism

Psychoanalysis and literature - United States - History - 20th century

American fiction - Male authors - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Masculinity in literature

Criminals in literature

Violence in literature

Fantasy in literature

Crime in literature

Men in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Hardboiled Masochism: The Corpse in Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key; 2 Deadly Is the Female Animal: Smell in James Cain's Serenade; 3 The Apocalypse of Male Vision: Vomit in William Faulkner's Sanctuary; 4 The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You: Violent Voice in Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280; 5 The Waste of White Masculinity: Excrement in Chester Himes's Blind Man with a Pistol; Afterword; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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--Hamme

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450798903321

Autore

Merkur Daniel

Titolo

Psychoanalytic approaches to myth [[electronic resource] ] : Freud and the Freudians / / Dan Merkur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-280-10689-1

0-203-99724-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Theorists of myth

Disciplina

150.19/52

150.1952

Soggetti

Myth - Psychological aspects

Mythology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-156) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1. Mythology into Metapsychology; Chapter 2. Myth as Unconscious Manifestation; Karl Abraham; Otto Rank; The Game Theft Myth; Chapter 3. Myth and the Basic Dream; The Cultural Context of Symbolism; The Ontogenetic Theory of Culture; The Genitality of Myths; Concluding Reflections; Chapter 4. Myth as Defense and Adaptation; Abram Kardiner; The Mechanisms of Defense; Jacob A. Arlow; The Navajo Coyoteway Ceremonial; Conclusion; Chapter 5. Myth as Metaphor

Silberer's Anagogical ApproachMetaphor Theory; Metaphor Theory and Myths; The Implicit Content of Myths; The Subject Matter and Definition



of Myth; Mythic Conceptions and Religious Thought; Concluding Reflections; Chapter 6. Therapeutic Insights in Myth; The Disemboweler; The Blind Boy and the Loon; The Claw People; The Origin of the Vagina; Epilogue Clinical Implications; How are We to Explain the Successes?; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights.