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Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire
In Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire Alistair Rolls, Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan counter the myths and received wisdom that are typically associated with this iconic French crime fiction series, namely: that it was born in Paris on a tide of postwar euphoria; that it initially consisted of translations of American hard-boiled classics by the likes of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler; and that the translations were rushed and rather approximate. Instead, an alternative vision of Duhamel’s translation practice is proposed, one based on a French tradition of auto-, or “original”, translation of “ostensibly” American crime fiction, and one that appropriates the source text in order to create an allegory of the target culture.
Robert van Gulik and His Chinese Sherlock Holmes
In the post-war mid-century Robert van Gulik produced a series of stories set in Imperial China and featuring a Chinese Judge: Judge Dee. This book examines the author’s unprecedented effort in hybridising two heterogenous crime writing traditions – traditional Chinese gong’an (court-case) fiction and its Anglo-American counterpart – bringing to light how his fiction draws elements from these two traditions for plots, narrative features, visual images, and gender representation. Relying on research on various sources and literary traditions, it provides illumination of the historical contexts, centring on the cultural interaction and connectedness that occurred during the multidirectional global flows of the Judge Dee texts in both western and Chinese markets. This study contributes to current scholarship on crime fiction by questioning its predominantly Eurocentric focus and the divisive post-colonial approach often adopted in accessing works concerning foreign peoples and cultures.
Paris and the Fetish
Freud’s 1927 essay on the acquisition of a screen memory, or fetish, allows the subject to come to terms with the traumatic truth that, for him, dominates the present moment (in Freud’s scenario, the truth of mother’s sexuality) by maintaining, alongside and not in place of it, a parallel story of the past (the myth of the phallic mother). In this book Freud’s theory of the fetish, and in particular this way of allowing two opposed and ostensibly mutually exclusive narratives to co-exist, is used to provide a number of Parisian crime texts with radical new solutions. The fetishistic world-view of Charles Baudelaire’s poetics will be shown to provide the template for all overvalued ...
Jewish Memories
"A jewel of a book. . . . For oral history the memoirs are surprisingly concrete: full of local color, and invariably interesting. Since relatively little is known in this country about the fate of the Sephardi Jews, this volume is all the more welcome . . . an attractive and valuable contribution to the history of the Jews in our time."--Geoffrey H. Hartman, Yale University "A jewel of a book. . . . For oral history the memoirs are surprisingly concrete: full of local color, and invariably interesting. Since relatively little is known in this country about the fate of the Sephardi Jews, this volume is all the more welcome . . . an attractive and valuable contribution to the history of the Jews in our time."--Geoffrey H. Hartman, Yale University
Clara Malraux
Lorsque Clara Goldschmidt, née en 1897 à Paris, rencontre André Malraux, elle a 24 ans, une enfance heureuse à Auteuil, de l’argent, une famille juive-allemande cultivée, cosmopolite. Lui a 19 ans, une famille dont il ne dit rien, une allure de « petit rapace hérissé à l’œil magnifique » selon Mauriac, il a tout lu et peu vécu. Le nouveau livre de Dominique Bona raconte la vie passionnée et tumultueuse d’une femme, dans le miroir d’une grande histoire d’amour. Quand Clara dit longtemps « Nous », André Malraux lui répond surtout « Je ». Ils furent deux, en effet, au Cambodge et à Angkor lorsque le futur auteur de La voie royale, mué en voleur de statues khmères...
Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension
This title will be presented as highly practical information on pharmaceutical options in pulmonary hypertension, written in a quick-access, no-nonsense format. The emphasis will be on a just-the-facts clinical approach, heavy on tabular material, light on dense prose. The involvement of the ISCP will ensure that the best quality contributors will be involved and establish a consistent approach to each topic in the series. Each volume is designed to be between 100 and 150 pages containing practical illustrations and designed to improve understand and practical usage of cardiovascular drugs in specific clinical areas.
Practical Bioinformatics
This book presents applications of bioinformatics tools that experimental research scientists use in "daily practice." Its interdisciplinary approach combines computational and experimental methods to solve scientific problems. The book begins with reviews of computational methods for protein sequence-structure-function analysis, followed by methods that use experimental data obtained in the laboratory to improve functional predictions.
Clara Malraux, une femme dans le siècle
L'histoire d'une femme qui a survécu "personnalitairement" à une situation difficile : être la compagne d'un homme célèbre, fascinant mais impossible. Une tranche d'histoire littéraire et un "must" pour les lecteurs de Malraux.
Deception: Spies, Lies and Forgeries
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. We have entered a ‘post-truth era’, in which, Daniel J. Boorstin notes, ‘believability’ has become an acceptable substitute for ‘truth’, and ‘manifold deceptions of our culture’ are difficult to separate from ‘its few enduring truths’. In this era, communities and individuals may feel routinely duped, cheated or betrayed. Though truth may be considered intrinsically valuable, deception may sometimes be useful or necessary. Sometimes there is pleasure in the spectacle of deception. The essays in this volume address a variety of areas, coming from different disciplines and methodological approaches: what unites them is the notion of deception. Deception is not just one thing: it can be used for personal liberation and expression; it can be use as a tool of state oppression and sometimes it is purely entertainment. We encounter deception every day of our lives: these essays explore some the ways in which we do.
