Format:
1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
ISBN:
9789004359000
Series Statement:
Approaches to Translation Studies volume 46
Content:
Front Matter -- Contents /Alistair Rolls , Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan -- Marcel Duhamel’s Translations and the Série Noire: Myths and Received Wisdom /Alistair Rolls , Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan -- Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire: The Origins of a Noir Skopos /Alistair Rolls , Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan -- Peter Cheyney: The Man Who Was Dangerous /Alistair Rolls , Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan -- James Hadley Chase, Miss Blandish and the Hidden Face of the Série Noire /Alistair Rolls , Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan -- Vernon Sullivan, Forever on the Sidelines of the Série Noire /Alistair Rolls , Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan -- Jim Thompson and the Lost Souls of the Série Noire /Alistair Rolls , Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan -- Douglas Kennedy, the Man for Whom Crime Paid /Alistair Rolls , Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan -- Where to from Here for Série Noire Studies? /Alistair Rolls , Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan.
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004358973
Additional Edition:
Print version Rolls, Alistair Charles Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Série Noire Boston : BRILL,c2018 ISBN 9789004358973
Language:
English
Keywords:
Duhamel, Marcel 1900-1977
;
Kriminalroman
;
Série noire
DOI:
10.1163/9789004359000