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Le Portrait d'Edmond Baudoin: Réflexions sur l'efficacité d'une oeuvre à saisir la vie
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Bande dessinée et trifonctionnalité
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
The "théorie trifonctionnelle" of Georges Dumézil identified the foundations of the structures of groups of characters in ancient Indo-European literature. This article starts from an intuition by Joël Grisward, one of ...
The Dragon Lady's Well Favored Children: The Transition from Corporatist to Individualist in Comic Strips of 1930s
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
In the 1930s the heroes of American comic strips underwent a significant transformation. Beginning as clowns or as personifications of the values of social elites, comic strip heroes were after 1929 increasingly alienated ...
Gotlib's Progress
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
This article traces the evolution of the French bande dessinée artist Marcel Gotlib (b. 1934). It draws upon strips from throughout his career, as well as upon an interview he gave me. As we shall see, Gotlib humorously ...
Autobiographie et bandes dessinées : Problèmes, enjeux, exemples
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
This reflection on the autobiographical dimension of contemporary "bande dessinée" will examine a certain number of general questions, including: Does the present tendency to autobiography in "bande dessinée" constitute ...
Robot géant: De l'instrumentalisation à la fusion
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Through the history of a sub-genre of science-fiction (cartoons featuring giant robots), this article attempts to identify how the robot switches roles, going from simple instrument to essential part of the plot. The various ...
La Planète Mars dans les romans de science-fiction anglo-saxons des années 1990: La Peur du monstre de pierre
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
When it deals with the planet Mars, nineteen-nineties science-fiction faces an alternative: either the heroes adapt to Mars' hard conditions (and that's "pantropy"), or they adapt Mars to make it livable for human beings ...
Médiagénie et réflexivité, médiativité et imaginaire: Comment s'incarnent les fables
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
This article deals with the concept of « médiagénie » (proposed by Philippe Marion starting in 1991) and its uses, as well as that of « médiativité ». Through various examples drawn mostly from the field of comic books, ...
Horreur, hyperbole et réticence chez Lovecraft
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
The work of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) represents a kind of « discursus interruptus » on horror and on the literary language that can best represent it. Lovecraft invents a new kind of horror, more hyperbolic ...
CRASH: Metafisica dell'ubiquità
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
The culture of the twentieth century is characterized by three industrial products: the cinema, the car and science-fiction. All three relate to the way we experience time and space. In his novel Crash, J.G. Ballard uses ...