Browsing Belphégor by Subject "fiction"
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Autobiographie et bandes dessinées : Problèmes, enjeux, exemples
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)This reflection on the autobiographical dimension of contemporary "bande dessinée" will examine a certain number of general questions, including: Does the present tendency to autobiography in "bande dessinée" constitute ... -
Autobiography in Early Bande dessinée
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Canonical literary autobiographies such as those of Rousseau, Gide or Sartre, provide an individualised and ambiguous introspective that points to intricate universal traits. Nothing could seem further from the stock ... -
Bande dessinée et trifonctionnalité
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)The "théorie trifonctionnelle" of Georges Dumézil identified the foundations of the structures of groups of characters in ancient Indo-European literature. This article starts from an intuition by Joël Grisward, one of ... -
De Black Lake Island à Neverland
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)Il comprend une mise en place historique de l'espionnage de papier. Il en rappelle les manifestations dans l'antiquité puis dans la littérature française jusqu'au XVIIe siècle ; il souligne l'importance de L'Espion Du ... -
Breaking the Frame: Anarchist Comics and Visual Culture
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)The emergence of the comics medium as part of modern visual culture has posed several questions for anarchists engaged with the arts: to what extent can comics be regarded as "popular" culture in the substantive sense that ... -
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 ... -
'C'est tout mal fait, pardon': The Rhetoric of Politics in Pierre La Police's Comics
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)This article examines rhetorical strategies of nonsensical political humor in Pierre La Police's Véridique! comics. Applying the Groupe µ's theoretical principles, which posit that various deviations from a standard semantic ... -
... Car la voie droite était perdue': Les Terres creuses de Luc et François Schuiten, ou les Cercles labyrinthiques
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)Within the trilogy entitled Les Terres creuses, the symbol of the circle plays a central role. It evokes at the same time unity and multiplicity, as well as reflection, the tricks mirrors play, as well as the vicious circle ... -
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 ... -
CRASH: Metafisica dell'ubiquità
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)The culture of the twentieth century is characterized by three industrial products: the cinema, the car and science-fiction. All three relate to the way we experience time and space. In his novel Crash, J.G. Ballard uses ... -
The Crime Fiction Canada Project
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Dino Battaglia et Rabelais : Dialogues de l'écriture et de la bande dessinée
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)Dino Battaglia has adapted quite a number of literary works to comics, one of them being Rabelais' opus, which was published in French by Mosquito (EDITIONS MOSQUITO 1ter, rue des Sablons 38120 Saint-Egrève, mosquito.edi ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Douceur du conflit: Commentaire stylistique d'une planche de Michel Greg
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)This article attempts a stylistic analysis of the dialogue between two aristocrats in a story of Achille Talon (entitled « si tu hais, vite le gant d'ire, hâtons ! », album Achille Talon au pouvoir, Mon Oeuvre à moi, t. ... -
The Dragon Lady's Well Favored Children: The Transition from Corporatist to Individualist in Comic Strips of 1930s
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)In the 1930s the heroes of American comic strips underwent a significant transformation. Beginning as clowns or as personifications of the values of social elites, comic strip heroes were after 1929 increasingly alienated ... -
Ecrire pour la jeunesse, ou comment voler la vedette à Super Mario?
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)English: Writing for young people, or How to steal Super Mario's spotlight. What is the nature of the opposition between children's literature and the other media, particularly video games? This article deals with the ... -
Fantomate ou comment parle le chien d'un (Petit) Vampire
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Fantomate is the talking dog in Joann Sfar's series "Le Petit Vampire", comprising comics, animated cartoons and children's novels. Talking "funny animals", as Harry Morgan calls them, are a common presence in comics. ... -
Gotlib's Progress
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)This article traces the evolution of the French bande dessinée artist Marcel Gotlib (b. 1934). It draws upon strips from throughout his career, as well as upon an interview he gave me. As we shall see, Gotlib humorously ... -
Homo Sapiens & Homo Globine, ou Les avatars du vampire!
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)The author offers a guided tour of the innumerable representations of the vampire, in novels as well as in the movies. He deals in particular with the migrations of the vampire from genre to genre and from media to media, ...
