TY - BOOK ID - 1050764 TI - Murdering masculinities : fantasies of gender and violence in the American crime novel PY - 2000 SN - 0814726909 0814726917 0814728715 0814728189 0585424918 PB - New York : New York University Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Fiction KW - Thematology KW - Psychological study of literature KW - anno 1900-1999 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 - Masculinity (Psychology) in literature KW - Male authors&delete& KW - History and criticism KW - Masculinity in literature. KW - Criminals in literature. KW - Violence in literature. KW - Fantasy in literature. KW - Crime in literature. KW - Men in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Male authors KW - Literature and psychoanalysis KW - Psychoanalytic literary criticism KW - Literature KW - ROMAN AMERICAIN KW - VIOLENCE DANS LA LITTERATURE KW - ROMAN POLICIER KW - ROMAN POLICIER AMERICAIN KW - PSYCHANALYSE ET LITTERATURE KW - MASCULINITE (PSYCHOLOGIE) KW - 20E SIECLE KW - HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE KW - ETATS-UNIS KW - DANS LA LITTERATURE UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1050764 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--Hamme ER -