Praise for The Fiction of Ruth Rendell... "An illuminating journey that should make Rendell devotees appreciate her even more." -Publishers Weekly Aside from Ruth Rendell's brilliance as a fiction writer and her appeal to mystery lovers, her books portray a compelling, universal experience: the intrafamilial stresses generated by the nuclear family. Even those who experience the joys of family life will find in Rendell the conflicts that arise among members of the closest families. Barbara Fass Leavy analyzes the multilevel treatment of these themes in Rendell's works. Rendell, who also writes as Barbara Vine, draws on ancient Greek narratives and on the psychological theories Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung derived from them to portray the disturbed family relationships found throughout her books. Leavy's analysis considers what distinguishes mysteries as popular entertainment from crime fiction as literary art. Leavy also looks closely at the Oedipus and Electra complexes and...

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