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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 ...
Il caso Salgari e gli studi paraletterari in Italia
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)
By focusing first on the contemporary theories of literary criticism in Italy devoted to popular and mass culture, the author then reviews studies and scholarship related to Emilio Salgari (1862-1911), considered the ...
Medicine in Alexandre Dumas père's The Count of Monte Cristo
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
Alexandre Dumas, père, was one of the most prolific writers of all time, with more than 600 books and other writings (no one is sure how many) ranging from romantic historical novels to travel and cook books. Some of his ...
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 ...
Dumas et Ponson du Terrail sous le second Empire: Idéologie et esthétique
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
Vero bohémien d'istinti randagi
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
Wealth, in its economic sense, was a stranger to Emilio Salgari. The author himself gave us a kind of self-portrait in his novel La bohème italiana, as a character who lives his life according to the dictates of the ...
Ciò che mi ha dato Salgari
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
This article offers some thoughts on the recent revival of interest in Salgari's work. It focuses on the novelist's poetic universe and on his "recipes" to save reality from banality. It is essentially a personal reflection ...
La Théorie de 'jeu de place' et les relations maîtres-domestiques dans le théâtre d'Eugène Labiche: Le Cas du Dossier de Rosafol
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)
L'article La théorie de « jeu de place » et les relations maîtres-domestiques dans le théâtre d'Eugène Labiche : le cas du Dossier de Rosafol vise à examiner le fonctionnement du renversement de rôles (le plus souvent entre ...
La Vocation de la photographie amateur: Hambourg (1893-1900)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
This article discusses the development of amateur photography in the last decade of the nineteenth century. It focuses particularly on the activities of amateur clubs in Hamburg. The author explores matters of cultural ...
Vivir entre las nubes: Il racconto di anticipazione e la poesia utopica nel mondo libertario spagnolo del XIX secolo
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
This article offers a look at the world of Spanish anarchism and its utopian tendencies, through the analysis of how short stories and poetry were used to announce a possible new form of society. The themes, the structures ...