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Journal Article
Desire and Nonhuman Excess in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep
2021
Overview
This article reexamines Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (1939) via key psychoanalytic conceptualizations of desire. In doing so, it makes the case that analysis of desire in the novel has yet to satisfactorily account for desire's excessive manifestations, which constitute a machinery that throws the novel's bodies into question.
