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Psychological Terror and Social Fears in Philip K. Dick's Science Fiction
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Science-fiction and horror are closely related genres, both belonging to the larger domain of fantastic literature. They share a partly common history. This article aims to examine how Philip K. Dick, one of the most ...
La Chevauchée médiatique de Buffalo Bill
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
This article studies both the story and the legend of Buffalo Bill. It deals with three separate aspects. First, the transition from history (the real adventures of the hero) to literature (their narration in dime-novel ...
L'ultimo upgrade
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
The symbiosis between man and technology is obvious in the robot who is the main character of the movie Bicentennial Man, adapted in 1999 from Isaac Asimov's short story bearing the same title. The humanist search of ...
Horreur des villes maudites dans l'oeuvre de H. P. Lovecraft
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft is forever weaving the same spider-web, in which both his hero and his readers invariably get caught. The real curse of his ancient cities (R'lyeh, Innsmouth, Arkham, Marblehead, Kingsport, Dunwich ...
L'Autobiography di Carlo Tresca
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
Carlo Tresca, born in Sulmona in 1879, emigrated to the United States in 1904. His emigration was dictated by both "traditional" and political reasons. He had already been active within the socialist movement in Italy, ...
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 ...
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 ...
La Planète Mars dans les romans de science-fiction anglo-saxons des années 1990: La Peur du monstre de pierre
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
When it deals with the planet Mars, nineteen-nineties science-fiction faces an alternative: either the heroes adapt to Mars' hard conditions (and that's "pantropy"), or they adapt Mars to make it livable for human beings ...
Horreur, hyperbole et réticence chez Lovecraft
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
The work of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) represents a kind of « discursus interruptus » on horror and on the literary language that can best represent it. Lovecraft invents a new kind of horror, more hyperbolic ...
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 ...