A long way from solving that one: psycho/social and ethical implications of Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer talesThe purpose of this book is to study Ross Macdonald's detective fiction as an example of popular culture. |
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Contents
in a Fallen World | 1 |
3 Social and Ethical Assumptions | 10 |
Ego Control and Independence | 17 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | A long way from solving that one: psycho/social and ethical implications of Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer tales |
| Author | Jeffrey H. Mahan |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | May 14, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0819177105, 9780819177100 |
| Length | 141 pages |
| Subjects | › Archer, Lew (Fictitious character) California Detective and mystery stories, American Detective and mystery stories, American/ History and criticism Didactic fiction, American Didactic fiction, American/ History and criticism Literary Criticism / Mystery & Detective Private investigators in literature Psychology / Social Psychology Social ethics in literature Social psychology in literature |
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