Rhyme or Reason: Three Patterns of Poetic Interference in the British Crime Novel by Camille Fort-Cantoni

“…This interpretation happens to be faulty, yet the poem states the truth insofar as it expresses another murderer’s confession – unknown to his author and the murderer. …”
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Framing Deaths, Embracing Lives: Alan M. Clark’s Jack the Ripper Victims Series by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko

“…Jack the Ripper fictions tend to be realist in mode, making frequent use of the Victorian press and archives to depict the 1888 murders. At the same time, they marginalise and exploit the victims, defining them as silent testimonies to the power of the elusive perpetrator. …”
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Al mismo tiempo, en el mismo lugar de Jorge Tacla: una obra que deja ver lo escondido by Melissa Serrato Ramírez

“…In this interview, the Chilean artist Jorge Tacla explains how he conceived and carried out Al mismo tiempo, en el mismo lugar, which pays tribute to Victor Jara, a musician, songwriter, teacher, theater director, activist and militant of the Communist Party, who was brutally murdered a few days after the coup that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende, on September 11, 1973.…”
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Genesing en bevryding in Suid-Afrika: teologies nagedink oor die bydrae van Johan Heyns by J. H. van Wyk

“… On 5 November 1994 the well known theologian Johan Heyns was brutally murdered in Pretoria — an event which was commemorated ten years later on 5 November 2004. …”
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The activities of the Ukrainian SSR militia in combating crime in the early 1960s. by V. A. Grechenko

“…The analysis of statistical data shows that the rate of premeditated murders, dominated by domestic and hooliganism, remained high. …”
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« Mourir dans un baiser » Un archétype du féminicide ? by Jacqueline Carroy, Marc Renneville

“…This act was largely confused, particularly in the 19th century, with the vast nebula of "crimes of passion", murders committed under the influence of a passion for love exacerbated by jealousy or the impossibility of uniting with the loved one. …”
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La mémoire du crime. Complaintes de tradition orale, justice et société dans la Bretagne d’Ancien Régime by Éva Guillorel

“…Most of these ballads deal with murders, rapes and infanticides. The comparison between them and written documents such as judicial archives reveals two different and complementary discourses on early modern Brittany.…”
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The Empty Child: Dystopian Innocence and Samuel Delany’s Hogg by Jonathan Mitchell

“…The essay contends that the novel, narrated by the unnamed eleven-year-old protagonist who details both his polymorphously perverse sexual exploits as companion to the eponymous Hogg (outcast, murderer and rapist for hire) and acts also as chronicle of Hogg’s experiences over 72 hours, destabilizes the ideology of innocence that acts as a utopian foundation to America’s national understanding of itself as exceptional.…”
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Sages comme des images ? Les héroïnes sensationnalistes et le monde de la mode by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…If the sensational heroines shocked the critical establishment because of their passionate character or of their murderous drives, they were also criticized for the way they fashioned their bodies, using artificial aids to appear seamless beauties. …”
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Mesto, vojna a jezuiti: pôsobenie jezuitov v Košiciach počas stavovských povstaní by Peter Federčák

“…The contacts between Jesuits and the city of Košice started in 1563 with the visit of Jesuits from Trnava and in 1582 of Antonio Possevino and continued by the mission of Peter Pázmány (1601) and two murdered Jesuits (1619) to the foundation of the College and University in the middle of 17th century. …”
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De l’enfermement à l’élimination. Quelques expériences de la prison toulousaine et leurs conséquences pénales (fin xviie-xviiie siècles) by Laura Garet

“…Murderers, thieves, arsonists and rebels were all criminals who could be punished by exemplary elimination. …”
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L’espace, le corps et les aliens dans la science-fiction féminine japonaise by Mari Kotani

“…This paper will focus on three themes in particular in a number of works in order to examine the history of Japanese women's sf: A) The Utopia of Women: Suzuki Izumi (The World of Women and Women), Hikawa Reiko (Women Warriors Efera and Jiriora), Matsuo Yumi (The Murders of Balloontown), and Arai Motoko (Tigris and Euphrates); B) The Transformation of Women into Monsters: Hagio Moto (Star Red), Yamao Yuko (The City Where Dreams Live), Ohara Mariko (« Hybrid Child »), Shinoda Setsuko (Gosainthan), and Shono Yoriko (The Development of my Mother); C) The Alteration of Maculinity: Kurimoto Kaoru (The Guin Saga), Sato Aki (The Travels of Balthazar), and Takano Fumio (Vaslaf).…”
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La seringue et la gâchette by Thomas Lequeu

“…Thus, the dichotomy between the character of Cathy, a femme fatale and a murderer in a lab coat, and that of Gaby, a transsexual police informer made to suffer humiliation and beatings, matches the parallel between the cop and the mobster. …”
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Rimes de malandrins : du narcocorrido au narco rap by Enrique Flores

“…: artistic and criminal performance; reality as the kingdom of insane violence; Dante’s hell and Rimbaud’s “time of assassins”; jails, drug and misery; Pancho Villa’s mural; Caballeros águila and body painting; outlaw culture and “warriors of the drug” –from the Brazilian jails to the neighborhoods of Los Angeles; “Reynosa la maldosa”; Marcola, Tiger and Subway 3; “Big Word” and “Murderers Artists”; Gangsta rap; narcopoetry and hallucination; poetics of the crime; “Crime pays: rhyme pays”.…”
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Between Excess and Subtraction: Scenographic Violence in Howard Barker’s Found in the Ground by Lara Maleen Kipp

“…Thematically, the play is rife with violence, such as former Nuremberg judge Toonelhuis’ consumption of the remains of high-ranking Nazis he sentenced to death, the continuous burning of books and the retelling of various murders by the war criminal Knox. Found in the Ground re-visions the collective European memory of the Holocaust; this thematic violence is expanded and subverted by scenographic means, radically reimagining the historical context. …”
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Dangerous Conversations in The Duchess of Malfi by John Gillies

“…Ironically the Duchess is restored to her honesty by conversing with her murderer at the climax of the play.…”
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« Les Mains du tueur Weidmann » by Nicolas Bianchi

“…This paper questions the media strategy of the magazine Détective when the Weidmann affair came out, which involved a German serial murderer, whose motives were quite unclear, in 1937. …”
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Camp Transvestism in Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994) by Justine GONNEAUD

“…This essay focuses on the figure of the cross-dresser in Peter Ackroyd’s Neo-Victorian novel Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, which uses both on and off-stage female-to-male and male-to-female cross-dressing as a backdrop for an investigation into a series of gruesome murders. The essay first explores the politics of cross-dressing, showing how the motif quite literally illustrates that gender is “performative”, in a Butlerian acceptation of the term, therefore allowing for an analysis of the constructedness of gender categories. …”
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Le succès du crime sur scène avec Robert Macaire : modernité théâtrale et protestation sociale au xixe siècle by Noémi Carrique

“…Frédérick Lemaître undermined this tradition by turning the murderer into a hero. His farcical portrayal of the scoundrel reshaped the status of the character.The article develops four main ideas. …”
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Des esclaves et des bêtes : fables de la sauvagerie en Amérique dans Letters from an American Farmer, de St John de Crèvecoeur by Agnès Derail-Imbert

“…In the sequel to this philosophical essay, the narrator resumes his naturalist account with the description of local reptiles, whose murderous behavior hardly fails to evoke slavery, as if servitude and the violence it entails were merely a law of nature. …”
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