03856nam 2200841 a 450 991078017990332120230422042522.00-8147-2871-50-8147-2818-90-585-42491-810.18574/nyu/9780814728185(CKB)111056486726266(EBL)865440(OCoLC)779828072(SSID)ssj0000206958(PQKBManifestationID)11200961(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000206958(PQKBWorkID)10235467(PQKB)11603851(MiAaPQ)EBC865440(OCoLC)50724085(MdBmJHUP)muse10838(Au-PeEL)EBL865440(CaPaEBR)ebr10032558(DE-B1597)547617(DE-B1597)9780814728185(EXLCZ)9911105648672626620000531d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMurdering masculinities[electronic resource] fantasies of gender and violence in the American crime novel /Greg ForterNew York New York University Pressc20001 online resource (278 p.)Sexual culturesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8147-2691-7 0-8147-2690-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-259) and index.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 AuthorThough 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--HammeSexual cultures.Detective and mystery stories, AmericanHistory and criticismPsychoanalysis and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fictionMale authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismMasculinity in literatureCriminals in literatureViolence in literatureFantasy in literatureCrime in literatureMen in literatureDetective and mystery stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.Psychoanalysis and literatureHistoryAmerican fictionMale authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Masculinity in literature.Criminals in literature.Violence in literature.Fantasy in literature.Crime in literature.Men in literature.813/.087209353Forter Greg1477512MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780179903321Murdering masculinities3692711UNINA