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O Barba Azul : Edições Infantis, Versões Orais e Folheto Nordestino
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
The article "O Barba Azul: edições infantis, versões orais e folheto nordestino" (Bluebeard : children's editions, oral versions and popular versions from the North-East) examines a series of oral versions of this particular ...
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 ...
The Crime Fiction Canada Project
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
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 ...
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, ...
Transgressive Bodies in the Work of Julie Doucet, Fabrice Neaud and Jean-Christophe Menu: Towards a Theory of the 'AutobioBD'
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
This paper draws on the autobiographical work of bande dessinée artists Fabrice Neaud, Julie Doucet and Jean-Christophe Menu with the aim of investigating the potential of the medium to disturb the normative visual order ...
Redire, refigurer: Traces et cicatrices dans Hunors
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Throughout a career that covers a variety of narrative forms, Chantal Montellier's focus remains the same. Many of her albums bear the marks of personal suffering from social violence inflicted upon the poor, the weak and ...
Imperialism in Asterix
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
The Asterix books, having been written over a long period of time, have reflected a number of contemporary concerns which were relevant at the time of composition - some of which are still relevant today. One of these ...
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 ...
Mickey, Le Journal de Mickey and the Birth of the Popular BD
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)
The unprecedented success of Paul Winckler's Journal de Mickey, launched in 1934, was to change the face of what we now see as the bande dessinée industry. This paper will suggest that the success was dependent not only ...