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<p><p><i>a Volume In The Cultural Studies Series Edited By Samir Dayal<br><br></i><b>an Innovative And Entertaining Look At Genre, Popular Culture, Enjoyment, And Psychoanalysis.<br><br></b>detective Fiction, A Category That, Broadly Defined, Runs The Gamut From Oedipus Rex To &quot;the Purloined Letter,&quot; Continues To Draw A Range Of Fans And Scholars, And To Play A Pivotal Role In Popular Entertainment, Contemporary Literature, And Psychoanalytic Theory. But How Do We Derive Pleasure From Reading About Or Watching A Detective&#8217;s Exploits? Is Our Enjoyment In The Vicarious Experience Of Genius? Or In Witnessing The Commission Of A Crime, An Equally Vicarious Experience Of Violence?<br><br><i>resisting Arrest</i> Looks At The Detective Genre In Its Many Different Cultural Manifestations, From Popular Fiction (christie) To High Literature (eco), From Art Films (antonioni) To Popular Television Series (<i>monk</i>). In Each Case, Rushing Finds That Detective Stories Have Less To Do With Fulfilling Our Hidden Desires, As Psychoanalytic Explanations Have Traditionally Asserted, Than With Purposively Thwarting Them. He Argues That The Genre Is In Fact Constituted Principally By

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Author

Robert A. Rushing

Publisher

Other Press, LLC

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590512418

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Mystery, Literary Fiction