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Title Origins and legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Serie noire / edited by Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon, Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Approaches to Translation Studies
Approaches to translation studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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?
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Subject Duhamel, Marcel, 1900-1977.
Série noire -- History.
Série noire.
History.
Série noire.
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Translations into French -- History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Genre/Form Detective and mystery stories, American.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Author Rolls, Alistair, 1971- editor.
Sitbon, Clara, editor.
Vuaille-Barcan, Marie-Laure, 1962- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Origins and legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Serie noire Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004358973 (DLC) 2017051186
ISBN 9789004359000 (electronic book)
9004359001 (electronic book)
9789004358973 (hardback) (alkaline paper)