Le détournement du genre policier sur la scène anglaise contemporaine : One Minute (2003) de Simon Stephens et Orphans (2009) de Dennis Kelly by Aloysia Rousseau

“…It can at best be considered as an unfortunate collocation, derived from the canonical genre that is the detective novel. The whodunit is the only recurring expression in common critical vocabulary used to refer to the transposition of crime fiction to the stage, an obsolete expression which is obviously not a satisfying one when applied to contemporary detective plays such as Simon Stephens’ One Minute (2003) and Dennis Kelly’s Orphans (2009). …”
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Cheesecake Manor, Californie : Raymond Chandler entre roman à énigme et roman hard-boiled by Isabelle Boof-Vermesse

“…Ultimately, what is at stake in the essays is to establish hard-boiled fiction as canonic literature.…”
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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. …”
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THE PERFORMATIVE FUNCTION/POWER OF LITERARY DEVICES IN JUDITH: A SPEECH ACT CONTRIBUTION by R.S. Hobyane

“… The compositional brilliance of the book Judith has, in research on it, been overshadowed by debates on its fictional nature, historical inconsistencies, canonical debate, gender and moral/ethical issues. …”
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Vidas desperdiçadas? Uma análise de Estamira, de Marcos Prado, e No quarto de Vanda, de Pedro Costa by Mônica Horta Azeredo

“…While approaching the realistic to the represented, these docu-fictions are an invitation to ponder over what Bauman defines as “wasted lives”. …”
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La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow by Timea Lönhardt

“…After defining the place and the role of the city in Bellow’s fictional universe, we will note the influence of the research conducted at the Chicago School of Sociology in the first decades of the twentieth century on Bellow’s view of the modern urban environment. …”
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