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Images of War in Late Victorian War and Adventure Novels for Children
Published 2007-12-01“…The late-Victorian fascination with war and the military was mirrored in the period’s children’s fiction which presented war as an exciting spectacle and a glorious adventure. …”
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Jak Gaja Grzegorzewska skampowała powieść kryminalną
Published 2025-02-01“…In my reading of the Dobrowolska series I argue that the way in which the female detective adapts to the gender stereotypes of this profession (traditionally considered as male-dominant) results in introducing camp aesthetics into the series by the means of play with the ‘male gaze’ that is intrinsic to the hard-boiled genre. The paper intends to investigate how Grzegorzewska dismantles the tradition of hard-boiled fiction and re-writes it accordingly to make her female character plausible in this particular literary context through the means of camp aesthetics.…”
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Cheesecake Manor, Californie : Raymond Chandler entre roman à énigme et roman hard-boiled
Published 2013-01-01“…One of the founding fathers of American detective fiction, Raymond Chandler is also a theoretician of the genre. …”
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L’Art de voler et L’Aile brisée, d’Antonio Altarriba et Kim, sont-ils des récits mémoriels historiques en bande dessinée ?
Published 2020-07-01“…To do so, he uses family sources as well as his father's oral testimony and uses photography to attest to the truthfulness of his statements, practices characteristic of authors of historical graphic memoirs. However, the use of fiction in passages raises questions as to whether these two albums belong to the genre.…”
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Wallander's Dark Geopolitics
Published 2020-09-01“…A current fault line in the study of crime fiction as a transnational genre is to what extent crime novels offer readers genuine cosmopolitan windows onto other worlds and cultures or whether it simply is bound to reproduce trite imagologies and national stereotypes. …”
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En chair et en os ? Sens, sensations et sensationnalisme dans Desperate Remedies (1871) de Thomas Hardy
Published 2007-03-01“…Sensation fiction was more often than not haunted by anxious, neurasthenic or even insane characters, as though they were nervously exhausted by their stimulating and stressful modern society. …”
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Decolonial Dreaming in the Sauútiverse
Published 2024-10-01“…Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight, 2022), and The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki 2021, 2022, 2023) have established African SF as a global and popular genre in its own right. …”
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Zwodnicza szczerość(?) Jana Jakuba Rousseau czyli narracja jako kreacja i doświadczanie świata
Published 2015-09-01“…Literature remains somehow suspended between fiction and the truth, between pretending and authenticity. …”
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Flaubert et le récit autobiographique : Les Mémoires d’un fou
Published 2018-12-01“…Cet article se propose d’explorer ce texte en détail, en cherchant à faire la part du réel et de la fiction, et en montrant chez le jeune auteur les ambiguïtés d’une démarche qui, sous couvert d’autobiographie, se confronte plutôt aux codes d’un genre littéraire, dans une perspective d’expérimentation.…”
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Le monde Gothique de Le Fanu : cryptonymes et mots étrangers
Published 2013-09-01“…This article examines the gothic uses of foreign words and foreign names in the fiction of Le Fanu. The revenant, the villains in Uncle Silas, or the vampire in Carmilla are systematically associated with foreign words and idioms. …”
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Du road movie au « voyage sauvage » : la quête d’aventure sur la route et le mythe du voyageur héroïque
Published 2018-12-01“…Les conceptions de « Wild », abordées dans le carnet de voyage cinématographique de fiction interrogent le rapport de l’homme à l’espace et la forme du voyage qui suscitent le dépassement de soi par la confrontation à l’environnement. …”
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Hardy, Galileo and the Art of Transgression
Published 2014-06-01“…His penultimate long fiction Jude the Obscure was withdrawn from W. H. …”
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How Tourism Imaginary has been Updated in the New Spanish Sun-and-Beach Comedy: Fin de curso, Atasco en la nacional and Benidorm, mon amour
Published 2018-12-01“…In the late-Francoist period, coastal tourism became an extremely important argument and discourse in film fiction and coincided with what was known as comedia desarrollista. …”
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« Nothing can retain the spirit, and why should we preserve the shadow of the form ? » : imitation et recréation dans A Laodicean, la perpétuation de la tradition générique en ques...
Published 2007-03-01“…As soon as 1881, Hardy in A Laodicean broaches the question of originality through the use of genres: is it possible for a novelist to write an original novel belonging to traditional literary genres (the « Gothic », « Romance », the « Sensation Novel »), haunted by other famous works and authors as it may be ? …”
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Le promeneur londonien au xixe siècle : une excursion dans l’obscur
Published 2005-12-01“…From Charles Lamb and De Quincey to Arthur Machen and even (a little later) Virginia Woolf, among others, the figure of the invisible bohemian recalls Baudelaire’s flâneur and the fictional character writing fiction. The city is « textualised » and the Peripatetic novelist torn between alienation and contamination becomes the origin of the Sublime, as signs prevail over their referent. …”
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Écriture et trauma dans “The Giant Wistaria” : Quand Charlotte Perkins Gilman revisite le gothique
Published 2015-10-01“…This article purports to highlight the relationship between text and trauma in Gilman’s, “The Giant Wistaria”, a short story based on one of the topoi of the gothic tradition: the haunted mansion.Gilman humorously introduces a “trouble in the genre”, turning her dark tale into a subversive version of the birth of the American nation. …”
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La littérature populaire du Kailyard, substrat nécessaire à la Renaissance écossaise
Published 2010-06-01“…With the benefit of hindsight we can see that the Kailyard movement stands on a strong position between Walter Scott’s novels and the fiction of the end of the Scottish Renaissance.…”
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Unveiling Koreanness in Yoon Ha Lee’s Dragon Pearl: Cultural Representation and Translation Strategies
Published 2025-01-01“…Ultimately, this paper underscores the importance of preserving cultural integrity translating science fiction works that embody cross-cultural narratives. …”
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L’histoire peut-elle se faire avec des archives filmiques ?
Published 2011-04-01“…Les documentaires composés d’archives filmiques sont aujourd’hui nombreux. Ils constituent un genre ancien qui tente, dans le meilleur des cas, de faire dialoguer la puissance esthétique et le labeur historien. …”
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African American Street Lit’: old, new, or better (?) tricks?
Published 2014-02-01“…Emerging in the mid-1990s, Street lit’, or hip-hop literature undeniably contributed to the boom in African American fiction of the late 20th century. The authors of the genre, many of whom are former gang members or convicts, followed in the steps of the best-selling pulp writers of the 1970s Donald Goines (Whoreson, Daddy Cool) and Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim (Pimp).This urban literature can be loosely characterized as formulaic stories set in the black community, revolving around sex, drugs, guns and cash; yet they also emphasize redemption and can be read as cautionary tales for the young. …”
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