Vol 10 No. 1, April 2011
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Item Open Access Isabelle Repiton y Pierre Cassen, «Touche pas au plomb!» Mémoire des derniers typographes de la presse parisienne. Paris : Temps des Cerises, 2008. 185 p. ISBN-13: 9782841097357: 18 EUR.(Dalhousie University, 2011-04) Infiesta, Víctor RodríguezItem Open Access Contents - Belphégor Vol 10 No 1(2011-04) Frigerio, VittorioItem Open Access Ecrits de l'ombre Etudes & essais sur le roman et le film d'espionnage(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-04) Spehner, NorbertItem Open Access Trafic de regards Considérations sur le roman d'espionnage africain(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-04) Nyela, DesireItem Open Access Plochocki (Maria), Body, Letter and Voice. Constructing Knowledge in Detective Fiction. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010, 213 p. ISBN:978-3-631-56383-0(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-04) Ferreira-Meyers, KarenItem Open Access John Buchan, Le récit d'espionnage et la thématique du regard(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre., 2011-04) Couegnas, DanielItem Open Access Tendre l'oreille ou la manger ? Variations sur Nécroscope (Brian Lumley)(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-04) Caland, Fabienne ClaireItem Open Access Présentation: Ecoutes secrètes et regards dérobés : questions de sens dans la fiction d'espionnage(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-04) Abdelmoumen, MelikahItem Open Access « Je suis votre public » – ou l'espion comme spectateur amoureux (La vie des autres de Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – Allemagne, 2006)(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-04) Abdelmoumen, MelikahItem Open Access Ce qu'espionner veut dire(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011) Bleton, Paulhis article is complementary to a forthcoming book (La Cristallisation de l'ombre, PULIM, 2011), dealing with the French spy story before the Cold War. The thesis is that the French defeat against Prussia was a fundamental moment in the birth of the genre, which acquired its determining characteristics during the 1870s. This article connects this moment with previous discourses on espionage. It includes: an historical contextualization of the spy novel; its manifestations from antiquity to the French XVIIth century; the importance of L'Espion Du Grand-Seigneur by Marana, of the genre of the "letters persanes" and of adventurers/writers like Goudar. It is followed by a discussion of the evolution of the meaning of the word spy, its different connotations and related discourses – erotic novels, gossip journalism, and L'Espion de police (1826) by Lamothe-Langon. The possibility of considering Cooper's The Spy (1823) as the genre's first ancestor is taken into consideration; the growing popularity of the genre is also explained, however, on the basis of Dumas's and Romand's drama, Le Bourgeois de Gand (1838), novels dealing with secret societies such as Balzac's l'Histoire des Treize in the 1830s or Sue's Le Juif errant in 1844-45, then the political dimension of Balzac's Une Ténébreuse affaire (1843) or of Dumas's and Maquet's Mémoires d'un médecin, as well as the success of Féval's Mystères de Londres (1843-1844), the conflation of the characters of the journalist and the spy in Louis Noir's Jean Chacal (1868), and finally the premises of an anti-Prussian ideology in Dumas's La Terreur prussienne (1867). Several elements prepared the way for the birth of the spy novel, without being sufficient in themselves to provoke it: its function in the art of war and police procedures; some of the great founding narratives of Western tradition; the presence of the word within literature, even though with a different meaning than the contemporary one; the appearance in the modern novel of narrative structures allowing for the tale of hidden and fearsome secret organizations... This linguistic and narrative material, however, was far from unified. We actually know very little about Prussian spies and after the defeat of 1870, French social discourse had to create a new conceptual framework for spying. There is therefore a need for historical contextualization and for questioning the ambiguities of the terminology.Item Open Access Rak, Michele. La Venere perduta. Milano : Salani Editore, 2010. 247 p. ISBN : 978-88- 6256-206-5(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre., 2011-04) Frigerio, VittorioItem Open Access Ottocento nero italiano. Narrativa fantastica e crudele. A cura di Claudio Gallo e Fabrizio Foni. Introduzione di Luca Crovi. Milano : Nino Aragno Editore, 2009. 539 p. ISBN : 978-88-8419-380-3(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre., 2011-04) Frigerio, Vittorio