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Tante avventure, tante ristampe... ma non tanti soldi!!
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
Emilio Salgari was, notoriously, a slave of the pen. He sold the rights to his early works for ridiculously low amounts of money, and afterwards signed contracts that give him a kind of fixed income in exchange for a certain ...
L'Italia e gli Italiani nelle opere di Emilio
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
This article explores Salgari's considerable opus to identify the more properly "Italian" aspects the novelist has included in his yarns. Even though he is known for the exotic locales of his novels, Salgari does not forget ...
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. ...
Lorsque le grand-père se fait petit garçon: Le Personnage du grand-père complice du jeune héros dans la BD et la littérature pour la jeunesse
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
This article deals with the representation of the figure of the "grandpa" and its role within the family through the stories of Le Petit Spirou, by Tome and Janry, and the series Manolito Gafotas, by Elvira Lindo. Both are ...
L'Allusion comique: Petits rà´les et seconds couteaux dans le travestissement, le pastiche ou la parodie
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
While studying various kinds of tales (comics, movies, novels), we asked ourselves the following initial question: In which kind of work do secondary characters play the greatest role? Present-day commerce and contemporary ...
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 ...
I conti in tasca a Salgari
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
This article examines Salgari’s earnings and the expenses he incurred, comparing him to contemporary best-selling authors.
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 ...
Le Capitaine Haddock, ou l'irruption de l'humanité dans Les Aventures de Tintin
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
Did Captain Haddock's arrival on the scene slowly change the status of Tintin's adventures? In Les Bijoux de la Castafiore and Tintin et les Picaros, the sidekick steps up to the front row, likely because it's easier for ...