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What exactly is it about murder that claims such a powerful hold on the American imagination? In this book, Sara L. Knox examines post-war America's preoccupation with this act of violence. Demonstrating how American culture both consumes and produces tales of murder, Knox examines numerous relevant narratives- news stories, psychiatric testimony, legal transcripts, fictional accounts, and examples from the thriving literary genre of true crime. In her approach to the telling of this cultural phenomenon, Knox draws on historical analysis and original research. She discusses such subjects as the continuing existence of capital punishment, the "sensational" American murderers Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez (aka the Honeymoon Killers), the connection between true crime books and romance narratives, and pulp murder novels of the 1930s and 1940s. Analysing widespread interest in forensic psychiatry, sexuality, mortality, and the relation of gender to society's reactions to murder, Knox refers to the early work of David Brion Davis, Bill Ellis, and Joel Black. While demonstrating how society's focus has shifted from the act itself to the psychology of the murderer to the broader social forces at work, she discusses the writings of Willard Motley, William March, Curtis Bok, James Baldwin, and Kate Millett, among others. Full of anecdotes and insights, Murder is a lively meditation on American culture that includes not only close critical readings of individual texts but also everyday matters of murder's meaning. It will interest those involved with American studies, cultural studies, and true crime accounts. Sara L. Knox is Lecturer of Humanities at the University of Western Sydney.

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• Celý názov: Murder
• Podnázov: A Tale of Modern American Life
• Autor: Sara L. Knox
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 296
• EAN: 9780822320661
• ISBN: 0822320665
• ID: 04936877
• Nakladateľ: Duke University Press
• Hmotnosť: 490 g
• Rozmery: 227 × 156 × 22 mm
• Dátum vydania: 01. March 1998

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