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O Barba Azul : Edições Infantis, Versões Orais e Folheto Nordestino
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
The article "O Barba Azul: edições infantis, versões orais e folheto nordestino" (Bluebeard : children's editions, oral versions and popular versions from the North-East) examines a series of oral versions of this particular ...
Psychological Terror and Social Fears in Philip K. Dick's Science Fiction
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Science-fiction and horror are closely related genres, both belonging to the larger domain of fantastic literature. They share a partly common history. This article aims to examine how Philip K. Dick, one of the most ...
Tante avventure, tante ristampe... ma non tanti soldi!!
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
Emilio Salgari was, notoriously, a slave of the pen. He sold the rights to his early works for ridiculously low amounts of money, and afterwards signed contracts that give him a kind of fixed income in exchange for a certain ...
Seres fantà¡sticos japoneses en la literatura y en el cine: Obakemono, Yurei, Yokai y Kaidan
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2009)
In Japan, fantastic beings have been featured in countless stories, belonging to both popular and elite culture, from the beginnings of literature in the eighth century to the present day. They have illustrated the desires, ...
The Crime Fiction Canada Project
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
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 ...
Displacement and Shifting Geographies in the Noir Fiction by Cesare Battisti
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007-06)
This article examines the recurrent theme of displacement in a series of novels and short stories by the exiled Italian author Cesare Battisti, both within a broader context of contemporary exile theory and, more specifically, ...
Idéologie et stratégies argumentatives dans les récits imprimés de grande consommation. XIXe – XXIe siècles': Balises liminaires
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
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 ...
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 ...