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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 ...
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 ...
Dumas et Ponson du Terrail sous le second Empire: Idéologie et esthétique
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
Vero bohémien d'istinti randagi
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
Wealth, in its economic sense, was a stranger to Emilio Salgari. The author himself gave us a kind of self-portrait in his novel La bohème italiana, as a character who lives his life according to the dictates of the ...
Ciò che mi ha dato Salgari
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
This article offers some thoughts on the recent revival of interest in Salgari's work. It focuses on the novelist's poetic universe and on his "recipes" to save reality from banality. It is essentially a personal reflection ...
L'Anarchiste' dans le cinéma de fiction français: Un Motif singulier entre caricature bienveillante et charge malintentionnée
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
Since the end of the 19th century, anarchists have been represented almost exclusively as violent, godless and lawless terrorists. This caricature, loosely based upon some real propagandists of the period from 1892 to 1894 ...
Jules Verne au pays du manga
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
Jules Verne is still known nowadays because of his technological imagination, and has considerably influenced two of the major authors of Japanese animation: Hayao Miyazaki (Chihiro's Travels) and Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis ...
Productin de l'intérnêt romanesque: un état du texte (1870-1880), un essai de constitution de sa théorie
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
Scene di fanatismo in alcuni romanzi salgariani
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
Scenes of religious or superstitious fanaticism are quite common in Salgari's novels. Such events are given particular attention throughout his work and make the object of detailed and lively descriptions. The novelist ...
Fenomenologia del paesaggio: Il ruolo della descrizione in Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)
Roland Barthes states that all literary descriptions originate from a previously "framed" referent, understood first of all in pictorial terms. It may therefore be interesting to compare the different descriptive practices ...