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Robot géant: De l'instrumentalisation à la fusion
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Through the history of a sub-genre of science-fiction (cartoons featuring giant robots), this article attempts to identify how the robot switches roles, going from simple instrument to essential part of the plot. The various ...
Ce qu'espionner veut dire
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)
his article is complementary to a forthcoming book (La Cristallisation de l'ombre, PULIM, 2011), dealing with the French spy story before the Cold War. The thesis is that the French defeat against Prussia was a fundamental ...
Multiples et multiplicationdans Perter Pan
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)
Une fonction émanée de l'art de la guerre, des techniques policières, de quelques uns des grands textes fondant la tradition narrative occidentale ; un mot déjà singularisé par la littérature, mais dans des acceptions bien ...
Brevi note su povertà e ricchezza di Karl May, il Salgari tedesco
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
Karl May was born in utter poverty and spent some extremely difficult years in his youth, even ending up in jail. His talent, however, allowed him to escape this situation. His adventure novels earned him a fortune. Upon ...
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, ...
Dorian Gray, Dracula, Peter Pan : trois refus de la modernité
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)
Dorian Gray, Dracula, Peter Pan : three mythical figures representing the refusal of the passage of time, all show up in London within two decades of each other, between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th ...
Theatrical aspects in the cinematographic adaptations of Peter Pan: reminders of the initial form of the story
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)
While Peter Pan celebrates his hundredth birthday in 2011, we all feel like, beyond his existence in a play, a book or a film, the ageless boy Peter now belongs to the popular culture, along with legendary characters such ...
L'India di Salgari: Trucchi ed espedienti di un maestro dell'avventura
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
A question many of Salgari's readers have asked themselves, myself included, is how a writer who never actually left Italy can have managed to describe with such amazing effectiveness so many different exotic locales, so ...
Idéologie et stratégies argumentatives dans les récits imprimés de grande consommation. XIXe – XXIe siècles': Balises liminaires
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
Réenchanter le monde : Barrie lu par Rackham
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)
The first illustrator of Peter Pan has also been, paradoxically, the one who has taken the greatest liberties with the character, in relation to the myth he will become, both iconographically and symbolically. Arthur Rackham ...