Sisällysluettelo:
“…Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Graham Greene and the 1930s -- Exploring the Popular in Two Early Novels: Stamboul Train and England Made Me -- Aspects of Detective Fiction -- Approaches to the Thriller in Greene's Early Work -- Thrillers of the 1930s -- The Ministry of Fear -- The End of This Affair -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”
Sisällysluettelo:
“…Late-Victorian thrillers and the curse of the foreign tongue / Stylistic and linguistic creation of suspense in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs / The voices of suspense and the French detective novel: Alain Demouzon’s Melchior / Reconstructing suspense: Borges translates Faulkner’s The Wild Palms / Chester Himes’s For Love of Imabelle in Spanish: Josep Elias’s “absurdly” overcompensated slang / “Se so’ sparati a via Merulana”: Achieving linguistic variation and oral discourse in the French and Spanish versions of Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana (chapter 1) / Bringing home the banter: Translating “empty” dialogue in exotic crime fiction / The semiotic implications of multilingualism in the construction of suspense in Alfred Hitchcock’s films / The narrator’s voice in translation: What remains from a linguistic experiment in Wolf Haas’s Brenner detective novels / Reducing distance between characters, narrator and reader. …”