« Vous semez de la ciguë et prétendez voir mûrir des épis! » (Machiavel) : polar et anthropologie urbaine à Chicago à l’âge de la prohibition
Starting from a few key works (in particular Frederic Thrasher’s The Gang, 1927, and W. R. Burnett’s Little Caesar, 1929), this article attempts to shed light on the epistemological affinities between the Chicago school of urban sociology and American urban crime fiction in the 1920s. Through a comp...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2010-03-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/erea/1139 |