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Ambitious rookie policeman Freddy Underhill attempts to advance his career by investigating the strangling of a woman and uncovers deadly secrets.

Police --- Detective and mystery stories. --- Police --- Roman policier américain --- Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Los Angeles (Calif.)

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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. The first chapter identifies several instances of hysteria within the fiction of two of the genre’s pioneers, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. Chapter Two traces the development of the hard-boiled detective’s code of honor through the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane, identifying the often-paradoxical nature of this code and its origins in obsessive neurosis. Chapter Three analyzes the anti-detective fiction of Philip K. Dick in terms of paranoid psychosis, and the final chapter returns to the question of hysteria, taking up the female hard-boiled detectives of author Marcia Muller.

Roman policier américain --- Psychanalyse et littérature --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature américaine --- Histoire et critique --- Aspect psychologique --- 20e siècle --- Roman policier américain --- Psychanalyse et littérature --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature américaine --- Histoire et critique --- Aspect psychologique --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique

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From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which 'popular' and 'high' literary genres influence and shape each other. With a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion is a helpful guide for students of American literature and readers of crime fiction.

Detective and mystery stories, American --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Roman policier américain --- Histoire et critique

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La curiosité et le désir de cerner les spécificités d'un genre que les Afro-Américains se sont approprié à l'aube du 20e siècle, telles sont les intentions de recherche animant le présent volume. Beaucoup lu par tous les publics (Chester Himes connut d'abord le succès en France), le polar afro-américain reste relativement peu étudié en dépit d'une production très abondante et diverse depuis les années soixante. Diverse parce qu'elle a essaimé hors de la côte Est, et parce que les romancières sont venues l'enrichir. Le vécu racial, comme nous le disent BarbaraNeely, Paula Woods et Gar Haywood est au cœur de ce genre populaire : la mémoire noire, les lieux noirs et les environnements humains qui construisent l'être - d'où une incursion en Caraïbe francophone. Curiosity and the desire to grasp the specificity of an abundantly read African American genre born as the 20th century was beginning are the research intentions that inspire this volume. Indeed, only recently has African-American detective fiction drawn the attention of scholars in spite of its very diverse blossoming since the 1960s. Diverse, because it has moved out of its birth place, East coast cities, and because female novelists have contributed their own production. At the heart of this popular genre, as novelists BarbaraNeely, Paula Woods and Gar Haywood tell us, is black existence: black memory, black living places and the human environments that build the individual - hence a détour to the French Caribbean.

Literature (General) --- roman --- roman américain --- roman policier américain --- auteur --- auteur noir américain --- author --- African American author --- novel --- American author --- American thriller