Browsing by Subject "1900-1999"
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Eclipse, exil et survie du krimi en Allemagne nazie (1933-1945)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)The German Krimi from the Nazi period finds itself in an ambiguous ideological position: how does one narrate the crime and its resolution when delinquency is not to be mentioned under the Third Reich and the police becomes ... -
Ecrire pour la jeunesse, ou comment voler la vedette à Super Mario?
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)English: Writing for young people, or How to steal Super Mario's spotlight. What is the nature of the opposition between children's literature and the other media, particularly video games? This article deals with the ... -
El (des)orden social y la representación del castigo en la ficción de Sara Paretsky
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)The concepts defining politics refer to human organizations that legislate rules for people living together in a society. The main purpose is to live in the most harmonious way as possible. It is this search for harmony ... -
Femme, je vous aime ... '? Nora Roberts, une inconnue sortie de l'ombre dans l'univers sentimental
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)Even today, it is far from easy for a woman author to achieve recognition while working in an almost exclusively feminine genre, despised by the mostly male critics who wield power in the symbolic domain. Authors of romance ... -
Geronimo as Translator
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)Using French thrillers as a pedagogical tool in an advanced French culture class may prove pertinent on three levels. 1/ The reader benefits from the genre's specific effect -- he wants to know what comes next. And in order ... -
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 ... -
Homo Sapiens & Homo Globine, ou Les avatars du vampire!
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)The author offers a guided tour of the innumerable representations of the vampire, in novels as well as in the movies. He deals in particular with the migrations of the vampire from genre to genre and from media to media, ... -
Horreur des villes maudites dans l'oeuvre de H. P. Lovecraft
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Howard Phillips Lovecraft is forever weaving the same spider-web, in which both his hero and his readers invariably get caught. The real curse of his ancient cities (R'lyeh, Innsmouth, Arkham, Marblehead, Kingsport, Dunwich ... -
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 ... -
I'm Not Scared' ...: I'm Marketable
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)This article is a critical assessment of Niccolò Ammaniti's novel and Gabriele Salvatores' homonymous film I'm not scared in their attempt at portraying the point of view of a child within an Italian family at the end of ... -
Il Corsaro Nero e Il Capitano Blood: Una lettura comparata di alcuni lavori di Emilio Salgari e di Rafael Sabatini
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)This article compares Emilio Salgari's novel Il Corsaro Nero and Rafael Sabatini's novel Captain Blood. Both stories share the same time-frame (the mid seventeenth-century) and the same geographical location (the Caribbean ... -
Ils aiment le roman sentimental et alors? Lecteurs d'un 'mauvais genre', des lecteurs en danger?
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Imperialism in Asterix
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)The Asterix books, having been written over a long period of time, have reflected a number of contemporary concerns which were relevant at the time of composition - some of which are still relevant today. One of these ... -
Information, médias et récit médiatique
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)Information is a product with a cultural dimension, representing an economic value and circulating trans-nationally. This mediatized information (divulged by micro-narratives that we both consume and contribute to create) ... -
De Kensington Gardens à Neverland : Peter Pan et ses territoires
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)While constantly transforming the character and the adventures of Peter Pan, James Matthew Barrie also modified their setting. The island of Neverland took the place of Kensington Gardens, the original location of Peter ... -
L'Anarchiste français au miroir du nihiliste russe dans la série Fantà´mas
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)The series of popular novels featuring Fantômas, written in collaboration by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain, has often been considered close to anarchism if not outright anarchist, and presents some libertarian characters. ... -
L'Autobiography di Carlo Tresca
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)Carlo Tresca, born in Sulmona in 1879, emigrated to the United States in 1904. His emigration was dictated by both "traditional" and political reasons. He had already been active within the socialist movement in Italy, ... -
De l'importance du genre en culture médiatique
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)In the field of mass fiction, the question of genre is as fundamental as that of the medium being used, as the logic of a series often depends upon genre-based classifications. Popular literature, therefore, could be ... -
L'ultimo upgrade
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)The symbiosis between man and technology is obvious in the robot who is the main character of the movie Bicentennial Man, adapted in 1999 from Isaac Asimov's short story bearing the same title. The humanist search of ... -
De la 'petite Annie' à la 'grande Ernaux': L'Evolution de la critique, des Armoires vides à Passion simple (1974-1992)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)This article offers a polemical perspective on the critical reception of Annie Ernaux's first books, over approximately twenty years. A methodical analysis of newspaper articles shows the workings of a pernicious, hidden ...
