Browsing by Subject "Fiction"
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Alternative Reality: The Monument, the Megastructure and the Luxury Hotel
(2015-04-22)This thesis inherits the infrastructure of Lower Manhattan’s Exit 2, where the Brooklyn Bridge and elevated FDR highway intersect. A recent proposal for a nearby ultra-exclusive luxury hotel is controversial. The site faces ... -
Amphibious Islands: Decay, Ecology, and the Future of the Venetian Lagoon
(2023-04-11)Venice, Italy is a city of constant fluctuations, existing amphibiously between fixed states, of past and present, fact and fiction, restored and ruin. For centuries, Venice, its peoples, and its lagoon have formed a ... -
Dark Honey: A Geo-Architectural Fiction of Extraction and Extinction
(2023-07-13)What does it mean to be human? As a species, we are defined by the contaminations that compose us and that are imposed by us. Spellbound by progress, our techno-hubris leaves no surface on Earth unaffected by perpetual ... -
Emilio Salgari e Il Re del Mare Un romanzo tra esotismo e tecnologia
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)This article adopts a socio-literary approach to identify the two cultural nuclei present in Salgari’s novel that have equally influenced the writer: exoticism (highly developed in late 19th century Europe) and an interest ... -
¿Héroes o villanos? Comics y derechos fundamentales en Estados Unidos
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Le Beurgeois de F. Boudjellal: Cynique ta beurgeoisie ou ethnique ta France !?
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)The goal of this article is to show how Boudjellal, in his graphic novel Le Beurgeois, managed to juggle a denunciation of racial discrimination in France with a denunciation of the mores of the new class of “Beur” ... -
Le fantastique et son énonciataire : figures de l’indicible et sortilèges de la narration dans Les sept châteaux du roi de la mer et Dürer l’idiot de Jean Ray
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)The literary criticism devoted to the mechanics of the implicit and the poetics of indetermination that characterize, according to various theoreticians, the structural functioning of the fantastique genre, often focuses ...