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Anxiety and Evil in the Writings of Patricia Highsmith by Highsmith, Patricia;Peters, Fiona is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Drawing extensively on the under-explored Highsmith Archive, Peters suggests that the usual generic distinctions-crime fiction, mystery, suspense-have been largely unhelpful in elucidating Patricia Highsmith's novels. Peters adopts a psychoanalytic approach to show that specific disturbances within her text have resulted in Highsmith's writing remaining resistant to explication and to the more sophisticated interpretative strategies that would seek to position her within a specific genre.

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Author

Highsmith, Patricia;Peters, Fiona

Publisher

Taylor and Francis;Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317180272

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Memoir, Biography