The suburb of Belleville is situated on the north-eastern outskirts of inner Paris. Its particular blend of social strata, race and architecture has made it a site of interest for historians, writers and artists since the Middle Ages. Thanks in part to the phenomenal success of Daniel Pennac’s six tome Malaussène series, published towards the end of the 20th century and situated in Belleville, the site has continued to enjoy a privileged status among the historical and cultural precincts of Paris. The representation of Belleville in the written and spoken word has a long history, part of which has been told, although in somewhat piecemeal fashion to date. Existing research may be divided into 3 categories, corresponding to the disciplines of history, sociology and literature. Historical studies are extensive and tend to support the suburb’s reputation as a site of revolution and social unrest. The sociological studies focus on immigration to the suburb and on the consequences of its physical transformation over the last half of the 20th century. The overall image presented by sociologists is one of a cosmopolitan suburb whose inhabitants manage to co-exist peacefully despite the multicultural mix; Belleville’s reputation as a melting pot success story sits at odds with that of its image as a centre of rebellion. Literature-based research conducted into the suburb is more sketchy; Belleville’s association with the noir genre and its inherent illicit elements also contrasts with the previous observations. If the existing studies present various pictures of historical and contemporary Belleville, they do not, however, give a comprehensive image of the suburb, nor do they provide an analysis of the role of Belleville in the noir genre, with particular reference to the Malaussène series. I have thus undertaken a multidisciplinary study of the suburb, with the objective of establishing links between the history, sociology and the literature of Belleville, of gaining an understanding of the function of Belleville as a setting for detective fiction and of offering a new explanation of the success of Pennac’s Malaussène series, by relating it to his representation of Belleville. The three focus areas of my research are its history from the Middle Ages until the end of the 20th century, its diverse representations in literature and popular culture, and its connection to a particular literary genre: the noir. The originality of my project lies in the method created to categorise existing research. Belleville rouge presents a view of the site as historically antiauthoritarian in its attempts to promote social justice. Belleville rose incorporates those studies which emphasise the suburb to varying degrees as a utopia, a model of social harmony or a centre of joyful festivities. Belleville noir focuses on the choice of the suburb as backdrop for the noir genre in literature and film; a hub of transgression and criminal activity, the antithesis of the positive space presented in the second category. The first part of my research project looks at the history of Belleville, the changing nature of its borders, which differ greatly from the administrative division according to author and historian, and the creation of a collective Belleville identity. Part two examines the representations of Belleville in literature and popular culture from the Middle Ages until the year 2000, and furthermore attempts to determine to what extent these cultural representations correspond to the suburb’s history. The third section deals with the role of Belleville in noir film and literature. If a single image corresponding to the décor of the neo-polar genre begins to emerge from the representations of Belleville by the film directors and various authors whose texts make up our corpus, this image differs greatly from the nostalgic one offered by Daniel Pennac; his representation of the suburb is hence treated separately. It is this strong sense of attachment to, and identification with, Belleville that is underlined by Pennac in his Malaussène series. Setting himself apart from his néo-polar contemporaries, Pennac draws heavily on all of the three faces of Belleville: the rouge, the rose and the noir. His refusal to adhere strictly to the néo-polar genre and his corresponding tendency to borrow from other genres such as the fairy tale, has resulted in a fusion of the real and the mythological which has engendered in his series a streak of optimism not found in the works of his contemporaries. Pennac draws on the history and traditions of the suburb to thus present an original view of contemporary Belleville as a peace-loving, cohesive community. If we accept that the cultural memory of a site is dictated in part by its inhabitants, and hence is in constant evolution, outlasting its physical appearance, Pennac’s role of guardian of the cultural memory of Belleville may extend to that of the cultural memory of the French nation. / Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2009

Diss. Linköping : Univ., 2004. / År 2005 tilldelat nummer i serien Linköping studies in arts and science.

Both the “crisis of masculinity” and “quality TV” have been popular discourses in academia in recent years. Many of these contemporary quality TV series feature male anti-heroes at the center of their narratives. This dissertation argues that the constructions of masculinity in series such as "Breaking Bad" and "The Walking Dead" are informed by the Western hero. Furthermore, the dissertation links this recourse to an arguably outmoded model of masculinity to recent crisis tendencies in the USA, most notably the recent economic downturn and the aftermath of September 11 2001. Moreover, the return of the Western hero can be understood as a process of remasculinization in light of the crisis of masculinity.

A presente dissertação propõe uma análise do romance A emparedada da Rua Nova, de Carneiro Vilela, com o objetivo de investigar de que forma os conceitos de modernidade e tradição se articulam com aspectos sociais da obra e do contexto em que ela foi escrita. A pesquisa investiga de que maneira a estrutura formal do romance-folhetim de Vilela uma narrativa de cunho policial está relacionada com a dinâmica das questões de classes, raças e gênero que compunham a sociedade recifense na segunda metade do século XIX. Verificou-se, por fim, a hipótese de que o princípio estrutural da obra formalizaria o deslocamento entre ideias liberais e prática brasileira, revelando uma relação de aparência e essência no seio de uma sociedade cuja modernização não passaria de um revestimento sobre os fortes alicerces de uma formação escravocrata e patriarcalista. / Our current research aims at studying the novel A emparedada da Rua Nova, by Carneiro Vilela, regarding in which ways the concepts of modernity and tradition are related to the social aspects of the novel and of the context in which it was written. Our goal is to examine the structure of Vilela\'s feuilleton, a kind of detective fiction, and how it relates to the dynamics of social classes, matters of races and gender in Recife\'s society from the second half of the nineteenth century. In this sense, we analyzed how the novels formal structure revealed the displacement between liberal ideas and social practice in Brazil, and it disclosed a system of appearances versus essence at the core of a society to which the modernization would be nothing more than coating over its enslaving and patriarchal foundations.

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[pt] O Compasso do Poder na Balada da Praia dos Cães, de José Cardoso Pires, busca evidenciar segmentos das relações entre Poder e Literatura. Num primeiro plano, é analisada a questão do poder, tendo como recortes as ações e relações de poder estabelecidas entre as principais personagens do romance no cenário em que a narrativa se desenvolve: o Portugal do Estado Novo na década de sessenta. A dissertação procura demonstrar que há diversas fontes e diferentes motivações que impulsionam as práticas de poder, e que as relações de poder, caracterizadas pelos poderes do Estado versus os contrapoderes, tornam-se mais acirradas durante um regime político de exceção. O segundo eixo da dissertação discute a eleição, por parte de José Cardoso Pires, do gênero policial e o uso de diversos recursos narrativos como ferramentas para criticar e combater o autoritarismo, concluindo que tais estratégias caracterizam e emblematizam o comprometimento cívico do autor, não somente com a sociedade portuguesa, mas com toda a humanidade. / [en] José Cardoso Pires s O Compasso do Poder na Balada da Praia dos Cães aims at evidencing segments of the connections between Power and Literature. In a first plan, the question of Power is analysed having as shortcuts the actions and the established power relations among the main characters of the novel as well as the historical scene on which the narrative is based: Portugal s New State in the sixties. This dissertation demonstrates that there are several sources and different motivations that drive on power practices and also how those power relations, characterized by State power versus counterpowers, become sharper and sharper during a political government system based on exception. In a second plan, this work discusses the Detective Story Genre, chosen by José Cardoso Pires, and the usage of various narrative resources as tools to criticize and to combat authoritarianism, concluding that those strategies will constitute a power exercise which emblemed the author s civic commitment, not only to Portuguese society but also to all mankind.

Esta tese traça um estudo comparativo entre o Romance policial contemporâneo e o discurso psicanalítico na produção ficcional de Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza (1936-) e Dennis Lehane (1963-), tomando, por base, relações de aproximação entre os métodos investigativos na literatura e na psicanálise. Para isso, o corpus constitui-se dos romances O silêncio da chuva (1996) e Espinosa sem saída (2006), ambos do escritor brasileiro e Sagrado [Sacred] (2004) e Paciente 67 [Shttter Island] (2005), do ficcionista norte-americano. A análise destas narrativas revela pontos de aproximação entre os dois discursos inseridos no cenário cultural caótico e desajustado. E questiona a emergência deste novo contexto sociocultural, onde personagens sem identidade definida, sendo o principal deles, o detetive, realizam sua flânerie através de deslocamentos constantes associados à paisagem e em busca do desvendamento do crime urbano. Como seres de ficção perdidos, estes private eyes precisam encontrar os desajustes psíquicos de toda espécie de criminosos daí a representação da cidade, que ora se converte no solo para a flânerie dos investigadores, ora contribui para o apagamento e/ou ocultamento das subjetividades criminais. A relação entre os discursos policial e psicanalítico aponta para a associação entre a obscuridade do texto literário e o da cultura onde estamos inseridos sem falar do mal-estar de um e de outro campo, que tem a ver com as transformações da esfera da sociedade contemporânea / This dissertation aims at outlining a comparative study between the contemporary detective novel and the psychoanalytical discourse in the fictional production by Luiz Alfredo Garcia Roza (1936- ) and Dennis Lahane (1966- ), approaching particular investigative methods in literature and psychoanalysis. To do so, the corpus consists of four novels altogether: O silêncio da chuva (1996) and Espinosa sem saída (2006) by the Brazilian writer and Sagrado [Sacred] (2004) and Paciente 67 [Shutter Island] (2005) by the American fictionist. The analysis on these narratives points out similarities and idiosyncrasies between two discourses within a conflictive and chaotic cultural environment. Moreover, it highlights this new social and cultural realm where characters with undefined identities (the detective, above all) strive to evade from the atmosphere in which they are set and search for the resolution of urban crimes. As lost subjectivities, these private eyes need to decipher psychic dysfunctions of every sort of criminal thence, the representation of the city, featuring sometimes as the ground on which investigators work for the law and, at other times, as a hiding space for murderers. The relation between detective and psychoanalytic discourses remarks the association between the obscurity of the literary text and our cultural background not to mention the overall discomfort triggered by changes in contemporary societies

Partant du constat que le monde dans lequel nous vivons requiert, pour le comprendre, l’élaboration d’une pensée critique efficace, cette thèse analyse, par le biais du mode littéraire du récit de détection, l’itinéraire de la pensée de Chesterton comme méthode de raisonnement et ensemble de stratégies intellectuelles. De la même manière que Descartes proposait d’exposer sa méthode « pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences » (Discours de la méthode), nous exposons ici les mécanismes d’une manière de penser originale. En convoquant son imagination et sa « philosophie des contes de fées », Chesterton redécouvre ce qui lui était familier, voit au-delà des apparences et échappe à la folie, qu’il redéfinit comme la conséquence de l’isolement de la raison pure. Sa pensée visuelle, progressant par métaphores, analogies et paradoxes, est une pensée visionnaire, capable de renverser les perspectives pour mieux voir le monde et en saisir le sens. La pensée chestertonienne, fuyant toute forme d’isolement et de solipsisme, se construit sur différents modes dialogiques : Chesterton pense toujours avec ou contre d’autres sujets pensants, d’autres formes de pensée, et invite son lecteur à le suivre dans ce cheminement intellectuel. / As Critical thinking appears more and more vital to understand the world we live in, this study resorts to detective fiction considered in its literariness to analyse the itinerary of Chesterton’s mind, both as a method of reasoning and a set of intellectual strategies. In the same way as Descartes set out his method “of rightly conducting one’s reason and of seeking truth in the sciences” (The Discourse on the Method), we intend to show the mechanisms underlying an original way of thinking. By summoning his imagination and his “ethics of elfland”, Chesterton rediscovers the things he was familiar with, sees beyond appearances, and avoids madness, which he redefines as the consequence of the isolation of pure reason. His visual mind, which progresses by way of metaphors, analogies and paradoxes, is a visionary mind that can reverse perspectives in order to see the world better and grasp its meaning. By keeping away from any form of isolation or solipsism, the Chestertonian way of thinking operates according to different dialogic modes – Chesterton always thinks with or against other thinking subjects or other forms of thinking, and invites his reader to follow him on this intellectual path.

Sherlock Holmes har adapterats till film i över hundra år. Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att genomföra en studie om adaptioner av Sherlock Holmes romanen The Hound of the Baskerville har anpassats för sin samtid mellan 1939 och 2012. Analysen utgår därmed ifrån Sidney Lanfields adaption ifrån 1939 med Basil Rathbone, Terence Fishers adaption ifrån 1959 med Peter Cushing. Slutligen TV-serien Sherlocks adaption ifrån 2012 med Benedict Cumberbatch i rollen som Holmes. Den grundläggande teorin för uppsatsen är adaptionsteori, för att få fram hur Sir Arthur Conan Doyles roman har ändrats och anpassats för att bli lämplig för sin samtida publik. Analysen är uppdelad i tre kapitel, i vilka olika delar av det som har adapterats analyseras. De olika kapitlen handlar om filmskaparna har omarbetat och tolkat Doyles roman för sin samtid? Har de tolkat och omarbetat de kvinnliga karaktärerna för sin samtids publik? Har Sherlock själv utvecklats mellan de tre adaptionerna? Slutsats omfattar sedan en diskussion om uppsatsens resultat, baserad på Linda Hutcheons teori om adaption. / Sherlock Holmes have been adapted to film for over a hundred years. The purpose with this essay is to conduct a study of how adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles have been adjusted between 1939 and 2012, to make the story more appropriate for their contemporary audience. The analysis is based on Sidney Lanfields 1939 adaptation with Basil Rathbone, the 1959 Terence Fisher adaptation with Peter Cushing and the 2012 adaptation for the TV series Sherlock. The Essay is based in adaption theory, to determine how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel has been changed and adjusted to make the story more appropriate for the contemporary audience of the adaptation in question. The analysis is divided into three chapters, which examines different aspects of what has been adapted. The different chapters analyze how the filmmakers have reworked and interpreted Doyle’s novel for their time, how they have interpreted and reworked the female characters and how Sherlock himself has evolved between the three adaptations.

Orientador: Sônia Helena de Oliveira Raymundo Piteri / Banca: Márcia Valéria Zamboni Gobbi / Banca: Antonio Manoel dos Santos Silva / Resumo: Este trabalho propõe-se a estudar Balada da Praia dos Cães (1982), de José Cardoso Pires, sob a perspectiva da paródia do romance policial, tendo em vista que essa obra utiliza-se de procedimentos típicos desse gênero para, a partir de dentro, subvertê-lo. A subversão manifesta-se, principalmente, pelo desvio no foco da narrativa, que deixa de ser a resolução do enigma, como no romance policial clássico, e passa a ser a construção do texto/inquérito por parte do detetive e do narrador, ou seja, a obra não tem como foco principal descobrir quem, como e por que ocorreu o crime, mas sim desvendar o processo de composição narrativa. Nesse sentido, pode-se dizer que o romance cardoseano engendra uma reflexão metalingüística que se desdobra em dois planos: por um lado, vemo-nos diante de um texto que nos revela os próprios mecanismos que o constroem, principalmente, pela recorrência e subversão do paradigma policial, e, por outro, temos um romance sobre o processo pelo qual o detetive elabora uma narrativa a partir das provas, indícios, etc. Tendo em vista essa configuração, destacam-se as instâncias do narrador e do autor, que instauram no romance uma rede de desconfianças que desestabilizam as noções de "verdade" e "autoridade" a partir do exame e questionamento dos mais diversos discursos que se fazem presentes na obra de Cardoso Pires. / Abstract: This paper aims at studying Balada da Praia dos Cães (1982), by José Cardoso Pires, from the perspective of the detective novel parody, considering that the novel uses the typical procedures of this genre and then subverts it. Subversion is manifested mainly by diverting the focus of the narrative, which is no longer the puzzle solving, as it is in the classic detective story, but the construction of the text/inquest by the detective and the narrator, that is, the novel is not focused on finding out who, how and why the crime occurred, but to unravel the process of the narrative composition. In this sense, it can be said that the cardoseano novel engenders a metalinguistic reflection that unfolds on two levels: on the one hand, we are faced with a text that reveals its own mechanisms of construction, mainly for the recurrence and the subversion of the detective paradigm, and, on the other hand, we have a novel about the process by which the detective creates a narrative based on the proof, evidences, etc. Given this setting, the highlights are on the instances of the narrator and the author, which introduce in the novel a network of suspicions that destabilize the notions of "truth" and "authority" from the examination and questioning of many different speeches that are made present in the work of Cardoso Pires. / Mestre