Browsing Electronic Text Centre (ETC) by Subject "comic book"
Now showing items 1-15 of 15
-
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 ... -
Autobiography in Early Bande dessinée
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Canonical literary autobiographies such as those of Rousseau, Gide or Sartre, provide an individualised and ambiguous introspective that points to intricate universal traits. Nothing could seem further from the stock ... -
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 ... -
Breaking the Frame: Anarchist Comics and Visual Culture
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)The emergence of the comics medium as part of modern visual culture has posed several questions for anarchists engaged with the arts: to what extent can comics be regarded as "popular" culture in the substantive sense that ... -
'C'est tout mal fait, pardon': The Rhetoric of Politics in Pierre La Police's Comics
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)This article examines rhetorical strategies of nonsensical political humor in Pierre La Police's Véridique! comics. Applying the Groupe µ's theoretical principles, which posit that various deviations from a standard semantic ... -
Douceur du conflit: Commentaire stylistique d'une planche de Michel Greg
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)This article attempts a stylistic analysis of the dialogue between two aristocrats in a story of Achille Talon (entitled « si tu hais, vite le gant d'ire, hâtons ! », album Achille Talon au pouvoir, Mon Oeuvre à moi, t. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
L'Allusion comique: Petits rà´les et seconds couteaux dans le travestissement, le pastiche ou la parodie
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)While studying various kinds of tales (comics, movies, novels), we asked ourselves the following initial question: In which kind of work do secondary characters play the greatest role? Present-day commerce and contemporary ... -
La bande dessinée historique : une source possible pour l'historien. L'exemple de la collection Vécu (1985-2002)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)The Glénat Editions were created in 1969 and have since become one of the greatest publishers of bandes dessinées in France. In the early 80s this publisher took advantage of a favourable context to create a series of ... -
Le Capitaine Haddock, ou l'irruption de l'humanité dans Les Aventures de Tintin
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Did Captain Haddock's arrival on the scene slowly change the status of Tintin's adventures? In Les Bijoux de la Castafiore and Tintin et les Picaros, the sidekick steps up to the front row, likely because it's easier for ... -
Lorsque le grand-père se fait petit garçon: Le Personnage du grand-père complice du jeune héros dans la BD et la littérature pour la jeunesse
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)This article deals with the representation of the figure of the "grandpa" and its role within the family through the stories of Le Petit Spirou, by Tome and Janry, and the series Manolito Gafotas, by Elvira Lindo. Both are ... -
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, ... -
Redire, refigurer: Traces et cicatrices dans Hunors
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Throughout a career that covers a variety of narrative forms, Chantal Montellier's focus remains the same. Many of her albums bear the marks of personal suffering from social violence inflicted upon the poor, the weak and ... -
Transgressive Bodies in the Work of Julie Doucet, Fabrice Neaud and Jean-Christophe Menu: Towards a Theory of the 'AutobioBD'
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)This paper draws on the autobiographical work of bande dessinée artists Fabrice Neaud, Julie Doucet and Jean-Christophe Menu with the aim of investigating the potential of the medium to disturb the normative visual order ...
