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Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Série Noire.

Rolls, Alistair Charles.

Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Série Noire. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (208 pages) - Approaches to Translation Studies ; v.46 . - Approaches to Translation Studies .

Intro -- Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Série Noire -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Marcel Duhamel's Translations and the Série Noire: Myths and Received Wisdom -- 1 Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire: The Origins of a Noir Skopos -- 2 Peter Cheyney: The Man Who Was Dangerous -- 3 James Hadley Chase, Miss Blandish and the Hidden Face of the Série Noire -- 4 Vernon Sullivan, Forever on the Sidelines of the Série Noire -- 5 Jim Thompson and the Lost Souls of the Série Noire -- 6 Douglas Kennedy, the Man for Whom Crime Paid -- Conclusion: Where to from Here for Série Noire Studies? -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Série Noire Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan propose an account of a translation practice that is surprisingly innovative and that counters the myths and received wisdom that have dogged this iconic French series.

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