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Il caso Salgari e gli studi paraletterari in Italia
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)By focusing first on the contemporary theories of literary criticism in Italy devoted to popular and mass culture, the author then reviews studies and scholarship related to Emilio Salgari (1862-1911), considered the ... -
Cinquante ans de couvertures de Sélection du Reader's Digest
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)This article presents the rivalry between text and image within the Reader's Digest magazine and argues that the choice of cover illustrations - particularly in the French version of the magazine - was able to foster a ... -
Les Embarras de l'historien
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)"Cultural history" is becoming more and more accepted, but in spite of this increasing recognition, the history of the present still faces specific methodological problems. Three approaches dominate. The history of material ... -
Medienkultur und Populärliteraturen
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)In Germany, cultural research as such dates from the beginning of the twentieth century. As for the study of media in an independent scientific context, it only harks back to the nineteen-sixties. However, research on ... -
Lecture sentimentale en abîme: De quelques couvertures de Nous Deux
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)In the field of women's magazines, often illustrated "romance magazines" which offer almost exclusively love stories, Nous Deux, one among the most representative weeklies of this genre, sets itself apart from its competitors ... -
Mickey, Le Journal de Mickey and the Birth of the Popular BD
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)The unprecedented success of Paul Winckler's Journal de Mickey, launched in 1934, was to change the face of what we now see as the bande dessinée industry. This paper will suggest that the success was dependent not only ... -
Le Terrain des images
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)Image is essential for a society to see itself. A new domain appears, the "visual", made up of what is made in order to be seen, which we can understand through its representation. This domain is dependent upon its support. ... -
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) ... -
Livros de Magia
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)Dans l'édition populaire sud-américaine, et dans la brésilienne en particulier, les livres de magie jouissent encore de nos jours d'un succès certain. L'ensemble de ces ouvrages constitue de fait une sorte de trame de la ... -
Aspects de la production culturelle au XIXe siècle: formes, rythmes, usages », sous la dir. de D. Kalifa, 1999 (Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle, no 19)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)We need first of all to define the notion of narrative based on the models of textual linguistics, and to examine how this notion can be applied to media analysis. If the journalist becomes as much the objective narrator ... -
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 ... -
Medicine in Alexandre Dumas père's The Count of Monte Cristo
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)Alexandre Dumas, père, was one of the most prolific writers of all time, with more than 600 books and other writings (no one is sure how many) ranging from romantic historical novels to travel and cook books. Some of his ... -
Révolte et révolution: Des tigres de Salgari à ceux de Paco Ignacio Taibo II
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)Mexican author Paco Ignacio Taibo II brings back to life in his novels the character of Sandokan, the Malaysian pirate created by Italian novelist Emilio Salgari in the last decade of the nineteenth century. His appropriation ... -
Cognitive Mapping im Cyberpunk: Wie Jugendliche Wissen über die Welt erwerben
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)The first part of the article follows Fredric Jameson's analysis of cultural practices in Late Capitalism or Postmodernism. The second part discusses Cyberpunk - already proclaimed dead by some media and literary pundits ... -
Gustave Aimard traverse l'océan, ou de l'utilité des mythes
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)Gustave Aimard published several dozen Western novels in France, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Their success in France was replicated in the United States. It may seem paradoxical that a French author can ... -
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 ... -
La Fiction cyclique, au-delà des frontières du roman: Asimov, King, Tolkien
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)Cyclical fictional universes go beyond the limits of the novel. This first transgression, which is integral to the definition of the cycle itself, provokes what we could call a "will to completeness" in cyclical fiction. ... -
Chansons d'amour et roman sentimental populaire: Quand l'air ne fait pas la chanson
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La Chevauchée médiatique de Buffalo Bill
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)This article studies both the story and the legend of Buffalo Bill. It deals with three separate aspects. First, the transition from history (the real adventures of the hero) to literature (their narration in dime-novel ... -
Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)The goal of the authors of this article is to discuss the specific form of repetition that Umberto Eco calls "remake". The serial aspect of remakes is based on the systematic use of processes of repetition that produce ...
