French Detective Fiction (2016-2017)
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French Detective Fiction (2016-2017)
02/11/17 French Detective Fiction | University of Kent French Detective Fiction (2016-2017) View Online Detective fiction is an extremely popular genre whose basic template can give rise to a multitude of approaches, settings, and values. This course is designed to give you an overview of the tradition of French detective fiction as it has evolved since Baudelaire’s influential translations of tales by Poe in the mid-19th century. Starting with Baudelaire, we will then study three 20th century novels (Leroux, Boileau-Narcejac, Daeninckx) and finish with a 21st century tale by the bestselling Fred Vargas. We will also look at Clouzot’s film adaptation of the Boileau-Narcejac text, and the Podalydes brothers' adaptation of Leroux's novel. Close attention will be paid throughout the module to the generic conventions of crime fiction: how do authors use these conventions? To what extent do these conventions alter over time? We will also study the extent to which detective novels mount a critique of contemporary society. 69 items Primary texts and films (7 items) Histoires extraordinaires - Poe, Edgar Allan, Baudelaire, Charles, 1973 Book | Suggested for student purchase | It is important to buy this edition. 2004 is the latest reprint. Le myste ̀ re de la chambre jaune (1907) - Leroux, Gaston, [2008? Book | Suggested for student purchase Celle qui n'e ́ tait plus: (Les diaboliques) - Boileau-Narcejac, 1999 Book | Suggested for student purchase Meurtres pour me ́ moire: une enque ̂ 1/8 French Detective Fiction | University of Kent 02/11/17 te de l'inspecteur Cadin - Daeninckx, Didier, c1984 Book | Suggested for student purchase | NB the bande dessinée edition of this text, by Daeninckx and Puchol, was reissued in October 2011. You may purchase the bande dessinée edition if you wish, but please note that the Folio edition of the novel is the primary text. There are several reprints so publication year may differ. Coule la Seine - Fred Vargas Book | This short text is available cheaply from French websites. Pdfs of relevant extracts will be made available on Moodle. Film (2 items) Les diaboliques - Clouzot, H.-G., Boileau-Narcejac, Signoret, Simone, Clouzot, Vera, Vanel, Charles, Meurisse, Paul, 1955 Audio-visual document | Core text | The film is available for streamed viewing through the SECL webpages: https://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/local/video.html Le Myste ̀ re de la chambre jaune [DVD] - Bruno Podalyde ̀ s Audio-visual document | Core text | Available on campus only through SECL website. https://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/local/video.html?tab=french Secondary reading: texts on detective fiction generally (29 items) Crime Fiction - John Scaggs, 2005 Book | Recommended | Critical study of crime fiction as a genre. NB: full text is available in full at this webpage: http://detective.gumer.info/txt/scaggs.pdf (available and downloadable at 8 August 2016 - this may change) French Cultural Studies - Margaret Atack, 2001 Journal | Recommended Le polar - Bonnemaison, Audrey, Fondane ̀ che, Daniel, 2009 Book Histoire du roman policier - Bourdier, Jean, c1996 Book Le roman policier, ou, La modernite ́ 2/8 French Detective Fiction | University of Kent 02/11/17 - Dubois, Jacques, c2006 Book | Core text Le re ́ cit impossible : Forme et sens du roman policier - Eisenzweig: Uri, c1986 Book | Core text From surrealism to less-exquisite cadavers: Le ́ o Malet and the evolution of the French Roman Noir - Emanuel, Michelle, 2006 Book Lire le roman policier - Evrard: Franck Book Le roman policier Fondane ̀ che, Daniel, c2000 Book The Cunning Craft: Original Essays on Detective Fiction and Contemporary Literary Theory - Walker, R.G., c1990 Book Cultural Intersections: The American Hard-Boiled Detective Novel and Early French roman noir - Claire Gorrara, 2003 Article | Recommended Yale French Studies - Andrea Goulet, Susanna Lee, 2005 Journal | There are many useful articles in this journal issue Les diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) - Hayward, Susan, 2005 Book | Core text Handbook of French popular culture - Pierre L. Horn, 1991 Book | Chapter: Detective/Mystery/Spy Fiction Mythologie du roman policier - Lacassin, Francis, 1993 Book The Cambridge companion to crime fiction - Priestman, Martin, 2003 Book | Core text Murder from an academic angle: an introduction to the study of the detective narrative Heta PyrhA ̃ ¨onen, c1994 3/8 French Detective Fiction | University of Kent 02/11/17 Book Le roman policier - Yves Reuter, 2009 Book Typologie du roman policier Chapter | Core text | Also partly available at this URL: http://www.ae-lib.org.ua/texts/todorov__poetique_de_la_prose__fr.htm#01 Le re ́ cit impossible : Forme et sens du roman policier - Eisenzweig: Uri, c1986 Book The cunning craft: original essays on detective fiction and contemporary literary theory Walker, Ronald G., Frazer, June M., c1990 Book The pursuit of crime: art and ideology in detective fiction - Porter, Dennis, 1981 Book | Cultural analysis plus attention to narratology. General study. The Aesthetics of Murder: a study in romantic literature and contemporary culture - Black, Joel, 1991 Book Form and Ideology in crime fiction - Knight, Stephen Thomas, 1980 Book | Marxist analysis of detective fiction genre. The reader and the detective story - Dove, George N., c1997 Book | Account of detective fiction genre in terms of reader-response theory and reception theory. Unwilling executioner: crime fiction and the state - Andrew Pepper, 2016 Book | Recommended Crime fiction: A very short introduction - Richard Bradford, 2015 Book Key concepts in crime fiction - Heather Worthington, 2011 Book Detective fiction - Charles J. Rzepka, 2005 Book Secondary reading: Baudelaire/Poe (6 items) The French face of Edgar Poe - Quinn, P F., 1957 Book The Cambridge companion to Edgar Allan Poe - 2002 4/8 French Detective Fiction | University of Kent 02/11/17 Book | Core text Alchemy and Amalgam - Salines Emily, 2004 Book | Recommended ‘Poe, Baudelaire and Mallarmé: A Problem of Literary Judgement’. - P. Mansell Jones, 1944 Article New essays on Poe's major tales - Silverman, Kenneth, 1993 Book Charles Baudelaire et la poe ́ sie d'Edgar Allan Poe - Wetherill, Peter Michael, 1962 Book Secondary reading: Gaston Leroux (4 items) Gaston Leroux: de Rouletabille a ̀ Che ́ ri-Bibi - Fau, Guillaume, Bibliothe ̀ que nationale de France, c2008 Book French crime fiction - Gorrara, Claire, 2009 Book | Core text The Yellow Spot: Ocular 'Pathology and Empirical Method in Gaston Leroux’s Le Mystère de la chambre jaune’. - Andrea Goulet, 2005 Article | Recommended L'encre et le sang: re ́ cits de crimes et socie ́ te ́ a ̀ la Belle Epoque - Kalifa, Dominique, c1995 Book | Recommended 5/8 French Detective Fiction | University of Kent 02/11/17 Secondary reading: Boileau-Narcejac (5 items) Une machine a ̀ lire, le roman policier - Narcejac, Thomas, 1975 Book Esthetique du roman policier - Narcejac, Thomas Book Le roman policier - Narcejac Book The roman noir in post-war French culture: dark fictions - Gorrara, Claire, 2003 Book | Core text Wired to the Word: On Reading Thrillers - D. Platten, 2010-11-01 Article Secondary reading: Clouzot (4 items) Henri-Georges Clouzot - Lloyd, Christopher, 2007 Book | Core text Crime scenes: detective narratives in European culture since 1945 - Mullen, A., O'Beirne, Emer, C2000 Book | Recommended Fast cars, clean bodies: decolonization and the reordering of French culture - Ross, Kristin, c1995 Book Narrative mutations: French cinema and its relations with literature from Vichy towards the New Wave - C. Nettelbeck, 2007-06-01 Article Secondary reading: Daeninckx: Sources on the Papon affair and 17 October 1961 (8 items) Le dossier papon - Violet, Bernard, c1997 Book Paris 1961: Algerians, state terror, and memory - House, Jim, MacMaster, Neil, 2006 Book Maurice Papon: De la collaboration aux Assises - Cohen-Grillet: Philippe, c1997 Book The Papon affair: memory and justice on trial - Golsan, Richard Joseph, 2000 6/8 French Detective Fiction | University of Kent 02/11/17 Book Vichy's Afterlife : History and Counterhistory in Postwar France - Golsan, R., c2000 Book Dossiers daccusation: Bousquet, Papon, Touvier - Lambert, Bernard, 1991 Book The Papon affair: memory and justice on trial - Golsan, Richard Joseph, 2000 Book 'Direction les oubliettes de l'histoire': witnessing the past in the contemporary French polar - C. Forsdick, 2001-01-01 Article Secondary reading: Vargas (6 items) La se ́ duction policie ̀ re: signes de croissance d'un genre re ́ pute ́ mineur : Pierre Magnan, Daniel Pennac et quelques autres - Verdaguer, Pierre, 1999 Book Mythes et démystification dans le roman policier de Fred Vargas’ - Laetitia Gonon, 2010 Article Frauenkrimi/polar fe ́ minin: generic expectations and the reception of recent French and German crime novels by women - Barfoot, Nicola, c2007 Book Rompols not of the Bailey: Fred Vargas and the Polar as mini-proto-myth - Sara Poole, 2001 Article 'La femelle de l'espece': women in contemporary French crime fiction - V. Desnain, 2001-01-01 Article Representations of the French Language in the Detective Novel Sous les vents de Neptune by Fred Vargas - K. Shields, 2010-08-01 7/8 French Detective Fiction | University of Kent 02/11/17 Article 8/8