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La Chick lit ou les mémoires d'une jeune femme 'dérangée'
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
In 1998, in France, Helen FIELDING's Bridget Jones' Diary met with great success and stimulated literary imitators, while on TV, series such as Ally MacBeal and Sex and the City were widely followed. "chick lit" is now in ...
B. Traven, un esthète anarchiste
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
Traven est un écrivain à la biographie mystérieuse. L'ensemble du monde littéraire et du monde militant le désigne comme anarchiste, dont nous retrouvons les idées à travers la lecture de ses romans. La poursuite d'un ...
Philip K. Dick: Psichedelici orizzonti, perversi accoppiamenti e nuove alterità
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
In Philip K. Dick's narrative hyper-realism, the description of how artificial beings intensify their natural capacities goes back and forth between drug-inspired hypertrophic suggestions, and the chimerical images that ...
El (des)orden social y la representación del castigo en la ficción de Sara Paretsky
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
The concepts defining politics refer to human organizations that legislate rules for people living together in a society. The main purpose is to live in the most harmonious way as possible. It is this search for harmony ...
Le Polar politique: L'é/Etat d'Hózhó dans les romans policiers de Tony Hillerman
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
The concepts defining politics refer to human organizations that legislate rules for people living together in a society. The main purpose is to live in the most harmonious way as possible. It is this search for harmony ...
Quand la science-fiction précède la science : La Conception de l'histoire d'Isaac Asimov dans Fondation
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
In the initial Foundation trilogy (1941-1953), Isaac Asimov adopts a probability-based view of human history, resulting from accidental events brought together by the selective pressure of diverse socio-cultural factors. ...
Femme, je vous aime ... '? Nora Roberts, une inconnue sortie de l'ombre dans l'univers sentimental
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)
Even today, it is far from easy for a woman author to achieve recognition while working in an almost exclusively feminine genre, despised by the mostly male critics who wield power in the symbolic domain. Authors of romance ...
La Fiction cyclique, au-delà des frontières du roman: Asimov, King, Tolkien
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
Cyclical fictional universes go beyond the limits of the novel. This first transgression, which is integral to the definition of the cycle itself, provokes what we could call a "will to completeness" in cyclical fiction. ...
Cognitive Mapping im Cyberpunk: Wie Jugendliche Wissen über die Welt erwerben
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
The first part of the article follows Fredric Jameson's analysis of cultural practices in Late Capitalism or Postmodernism. The second part discusses Cyberpunk - already proclaimed dead by some media and literary pundits ...