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Labiche et la contestation de l'ordre établi
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)
Labiche dealings with censorship were not limited to the time of the Second Empire. Due to the State of Siege, and to the fact that all shows were strictly controlled by the military until 1875, the young Third Republic ...
Le Nivellement du vaudeville: Remarques sur le para-discours chez Labiche
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)
Labiche excels in the vaudeville, which is considered to be a "minor genre": consequently he has been allocated no more than a marginal place in the field of literary studies. In order to rehabilitate his work, I choose ...
Le Roman populaire, définition et histoire: De quelques questions théoriques et pratiques sur le roman populaire
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2009)
Roman sentimental, roman d'amour: Amour ... toujours
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2009)
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 ...
De l'influence de la diffusion sur la presse à grand tirage (1852-1914): Le Petit Journal, Le Petit Parisien, Le Matin et Le Journal
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
This article examines the changes that have occurred in newspaper distribution in France towards the middle of the nineteenth century, and their influence on the press itself and on the literature of the time. These changes ...
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 ...
Les Bourlingueuses de la plume: Portraits de voyageuses-écrivains dans l'entre-deux-guerres
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)
For a woman in the inter-war period, getting into the media game of travel writing is an adventure in itself. In spite of this, many have tried to rival the male writers/travellers of the time and to impose their own style ...
Les 'Chéries noires': Ecriture féminine et roman noir
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)
Towards the end of the eighties and through the nineties, women have been increasingly visible and present in the field of French "noir" fiction, up until then reserved for men, as opposed to the more traditional thriller ...