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Title Origins and legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Serie noire / edited by Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018

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Series Approaches to Translation Studies
Approaches to translation studies.
Contents Introduction: Marcel Duhamel's translations and the Serie noire: myths and received wisdom -- Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire: the origins of a noir skopos -- Peter Cheyney: the man who was dangerous -- James Hadley Chase, Miss Blandish and the hidden face of the Serie noire -- Vernon Sullivan, forever on the sidelines of the Serie noire -- Jim Thompson and the lost souls of the Serie noire -- Douglas Kennedy, the man for whom crime paid -- Conclusion: where to from here for Serie noire studies?
Summary "In Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Série Noire Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan counter the myths and received wisdom that are typically associated with this iconic French crime fiction series, namely: that it was born in Paris on a tide of postwar euphoria; that it initially consisted of translations of American hard-boiled classics by the likes of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler; and that the translations were rushed and rather approximate. Instead, an alternative vision of Duhamel's translation practice is proposed, one based on a French tradition of auto-, or "original", translation of "ostensibly" American crime fiction, and one that appropriates the source text in order to create an allegory of the target culture" -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Duhamel, Marcel, 1900-1977.
SUBJECT Série noire -- History
Série noire fast
Subject Detective and mystery stories, American -- Translations into French -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Rolls, Alistair, 1971- editor.
Sitbon, Clara, editor
Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure, 1962- editor.
LC no. 2017061538
ISBN 9789004359000
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9789004358973