Le Roman populaire. Recherches en paralittérature
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Le Roman populaire: Recherches en paralittérature (The Popular Novel: Studies in Paraliterature) is a 1975 literary study of paraliterature and popular fiction by Canadian literary theorist Marc Angenot. It consists of seven essays, most of which have previously been published in European or Canadian periodicals.
They deal with various forms of the "popular novel" in France from the beginnings of the 19th century to roughly 1945, and use several methods, "from sociohistorical study to semiotic analysis," but they all have a common denominator in treating seriously the "ideological motifs and rhetorical practices" of a literary production "repressed in official culture" of the times (p. ix). Essays include "The Popular Novel in the Industrial Age," "At the Sources: The Horror Fantasy (Roman Noir) in France," "Elements of a Typology for the Popular Novel," "Novel and Ideology: Sue's Les Mystères de Paris," "The Anti-German Popular Novel" (after 1871), and "Rhetoric and Narrative Structures in Fantômas." --Science Fiction Studies, July 1975, DePauw University via [1]
