Les ombres du polar

By focusing on two notions, shadows and darkness, which are both prominent in US hardboiled/noir fiction from the1920s to the 1960s, this article offers two readings of the genre, as (1) the reenactment of an epic/shamanic narrative of incursion into the realm of the dead, or (2) the embodiment of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benoît Tadié
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès 2013-06-01
Series:Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/3642