Never heard any words including "jaune" to qualify a genre of
mystery lit. in France! In Italy, yes : it became a generic
word for mystery lit (refer to Luca's explanation). Now, the
vocabulary naming genres in popular lit. in any country is
always fuzzy and evolving along the years, even if some
epressions stays long. In French we speak of "litt鲡ture
policiè²¥" (police lit) and "roman policier" (police novel).
The latest name was transformed during the 70s into "polar" a
colloquial word forged at the time. A noir novel belonging to
mystery lit will be qualified now as "polar noir" in
French.
On the other hand, an example of another fuzzy term is a word
that introduced recently a lot of confusion in English:
pulp(s). Originally they were magazines of all genres. In
which you could find some mystery writers and even the
ancestors and founders of the modern HB/noir American lit.
Even if we could speak of "pulp writers" or "pulp fiction" as
a reference to the golden age of these magazines, to qualify
later writers
(40s onwards) of the same tradition, their publications were
no more
"pulps" as such... they were paperbacks and PBO. But others
on this list could probably give you a wider and better
analysis of the meaning and evolution of the word
"pulp".
E.Borgers HARD-BOILED MYSTERIES http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384/books.html
POLAR NOIR http://www.geocities.com/polarnoir
>
>On 8/22/04 22:12, "William Denton" <
buff@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>I'm passing on another question from Toni
Johnson-Woods, the Australian
>>academic. Drop her a quick note if you know the
answer.
>>
>>| From: Dr Toni Margaret JOHNSON-WOODS <
t.johnsonwoods@uq.edu.au>
>>|
>>| Could you please ask the pundits who know all
--I've read somewhere that
>>| une jaune (French) and un giallo (Italian) are
shorthand for "pulp
>>| fiction" ie mass produced fiction of the 1940s,
1950s ie Carter Brown
>>| and ilk (not nec pulp magazine fiction)? Can
anyone confirm? deny?
>>| Second, does anyone know if there are other
names ie German, Spanish
>>| etc??? Probably private replies are
best???
>>|
>>|
>>| Thanks so much.
>>| Dr Toni Johnson-Woods
>>| Contemporary Studies
>>| University of Queensland
>>| Australia.
>>
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>
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