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La Revue des lettres modernes
2020 – 10 Les « nouveaux » villains. Figures du mal dans la fiction de jeunesse

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Pages 7 to 9
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Pages 11 to 14
Foreword
Dufayet (Nathalie)

LE GRAND MÉCHANT LOUP D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI /
THE BIG BAD WOLF, YESTERDAY AND TODAY

Pages 17 to 24
Between inhumanity and dehumanization The figure of the Kraut Wolf in 1914–1918
Bihour (Thaïs)
Pages 25 to 32
The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf Two archetypes meet
Jousten (Lison)
Pages 33 to 40
But who is still afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Duval (Marion)
Pages 41 to 49
The wolf is back The “new” face of the wolf in the tale of Little Red Riding Hook
Brissonnet-Teyssédou (Mathilde)

INVERSIONS CARNAVALESQUES :
LE MÉCHANT, DU RIRE AUX LARMES /
CARNIVALESQUE REVERSALS:
BETWEEN LAUGHTER, TEARS, AND HORROR

Pages 53 to 62
Sympathy for the Evil Relative evil in the adaptations of fairy tales in the 21st century
Cimmino (Mirta)
Pages 63 to 71
“After the first death…” The emergence of Children of the Night in Laisse-moi entrer (John Lindqvist), Ma chère grand-mère (Catherine Brighton) and La Balafre (Jean-Claude Mourlevat)
Casta (Isabelle Rachel)
Pages 73 to 83
The villain at the heart of the contradictions of youth literature
Callon-Wells (Nicole)
Pages 85 to 94
On the other side of the door The monsters of childhood and child-monster in Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University
Carrée (Roland)
Pages 95 to 107
The depths of evil Murderous mothers and assassin children in the traditional tale
Charnay (Bochra)
Pages 109 to 117
The Ordinary Dark Ones in the Realist Novel for Young People
Beyron (Violaine)
Pages 119 to 127
Doctor Facilier in The Princess and the Frog Ideological issues of representation of the first black villain by Disney
Cellier (Marine)

L’HOMME, LA BÊTE ET J.K. ROWLING /
MAN, BEAST, AND J.K. ROWLING

Pages 131 to 138
Harry Potter, from the story’s bad guy to the bad guy’s story
Auriacombe (Éric)
Pages 139 to 152
Lord Voldemort, “the villain of thousand and one faces”
Dufayet (Nathalie)
Pages 153 to 161
Evil, mystery, and redemption A comparative study of Severus Snape and Mrs Coulter
Olivier (Isabelle)
Pages 163 to 171
Abstracts
Founded in 1954 by Michel Minard, the Journal of Modern Literature is a collection of monographic and thematic series devoted to modern and contemporary writers.
  • CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-11087-3
  • EAN: 9782406110873
  • ISSN: 0035-2136
  • DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-11088-0
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 02-15-2021
  • Periodicity: Monthly
  • Languages: French, English
  • Keyword: youth literature, bad guy, fairytale, Manichaeism, edification

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