Now showing items 1-10 of 10

  • Crímenes para armar: amuleto de Roberto Bolaà±o 

    Ferrer, Carolina (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
    Twentieth century Argentine literature plays with genre. From the military junta’s dictatorship whose violence and clandestineness provoked historiography’s interruption in 1976, we discover a number of novels that closely ...
  • Eclipse, exil et survie du krimi en Allemagne nazie (1933-1945) 

    Platini, Vincent (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
    The German Krimi from the Nazi period finds itself in an ambiguous ideological position: how does one narrate the crime and its resolution when delinquency is not to be mentioned under the Third Reich and the police becomes ...
  • El (des)orden social y la representación del castigo en la ficción de Sara Paretsky 

    Ramon-Torrijos, Mar (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
    The concepts defining politics refer to human organizations that legislate rules for people living together in a society. The main purpose is to live in the most harmonious way as possible. It is this search for harmony ...
  • Le Polar maghrébin sous la plume de Yasmina Khadra: Comment l'enquàªte policière devient enquàªte politique... 

    Canu, Claudia (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
    In the context of a reflection which is centred around the relationship between the detective novel and politics, the works of Yasmina Khadra constitute an important example which merits attention; because of the contend ...
  • Le Polar politique: L'é/Etat d'Hózhó dans les romans policiers de Tony Hillerman 

    Rouffanche-Pericat, Cecile (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
    The concepts defining politics refer to human organizations that legislate rules for people living together in a society. The main purpose is to live in the most harmonious way as possible. It is this search for harmony ...
  • Les Naufragés de l'intelligence: Un Polar noir 

    Atcha, Philip Amangoua (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
    This study is a reading of Les naufragés de l’intelligence [The Shipwrecked of Intelligence] by Ivory Coast writer Jean-Marie Adiaffi as a noir fiction detective novel. It demonstrates that Adiaffi’s text is built on the ...
  • Padura, creando desde el presente la memoria del futuro 

    Campirano, Manuel (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
    Interview with Leonardo Padura Fuentes.
  • Quelle fin pour Pedro McEvoy? Le Dénouement renoué de Rue des Boutiques Obscures 

    Duriez, Shawn (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
    The narrative conventions which underlie and structure the detective novel’s intrigue have been the object of pastiches, parodies and ironic subversions in a number of important works of the last half century. From Gommes ...
  • Rodolfo Walsh ou le polar de la résistance péroniste 

    Thomas, Jean Baptiste (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
    Rodolfo Walsh is a writer little known outside Argentina. Considered by some critiques as a simple journalist and not as a writer, he always maintained a confrontational relationship with detective novel. This article ...
  • Roman policier ou roman politique: Le Polar selon Sciascia 

    Prigent, Gael (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
    Leonardo Sciascia’s oeuvre is related to both politics and the detective genre. The reader is thus invited to consider the possibility of a link between these two essential components and to study his novels from that point ...