« Le loup-garou des légendes est aujourd’hui dépassé ». L’écho chanté d’un tueur de bergers (1895-1898)

The criminal ballad differs from the news item ballad only in its subject matter, but what about the ballad dealing with a particularly atrocious crime? Isn't the strong collective emotion a challenge for the ballad? Can horror be sung? This article proposes an answer based on the corpus of bal...

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Main Author: Marc Renneville
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Published: Criminocorpus 2021-03-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/8255
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description The criminal ballad differs from the news item ballad only in its subject matter, but what about the ballad dealing with a particularly atrocious crime? Isn't the strong collective emotion a challenge for the ballad? Can horror be sung? This article proposes an answer based on the corpus of ballads dealing with the Vacher affair. An analysis of the texts shows that the ballad does not need to adapt its composition to the treatment of criminal horror. This ability to recount the unspeakable contributes to its continued strong presence at the end of the 19th century, when the printed newspaper was tending to achieve maximum circulation in France.
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« Le loup-garou des légendes est aujourd’hui dépassé ». L’écho chanté d’un tueur de bergers (1895-1898)
Criminocorpus
Vacher (Joseph)
Caussimon (Jean-Roger)
emotions
judicial sensibility
title « Le loup-garou des légendes est aujourd’hui dépassé ». L’écho chanté d’un tueur de bergers (1895-1898)
title_full « Le loup-garou des légendes est aujourd’hui dépassé ». L’écho chanté d’un tueur de bergers (1895-1898)
title_fullStr « Le loup-garou des légendes est aujourd’hui dépassé ». L’écho chanté d’un tueur de bergers (1895-1898)
title_full_unstemmed « Le loup-garou des légendes est aujourd’hui dépassé ». L’écho chanté d’un tueur de bergers (1895-1898)
title_short « Le loup-garou des légendes est aujourd’hui dépassé ». L’écho chanté d’un tueur de bergers (1895-1898)
title_sort le loup garou des legendes est aujourd hui depasse l echo chante d un tueur de bergers 1895 1898
topic Vacher (Joseph)
Caussimon (Jean-Roger)
emotions
judicial sensibility
url https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/8255
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