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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 ...
Robot géant: De l'instrumentalisation à la fusion
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Through the history of a sub-genre of science-fiction (cartoons featuring giant robots), this article attempts to identify how the robot switches roles, going from simple instrument to essential part of the plot. The various ...
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 ...
Mécanismes d'apparition de la terreur dans les légendes fantastiques de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Spanish writer, 1836-1870) is the author of a series of fantastic "legends", featuring mysterious and unknown worlds, constructed to evoke feelings of fear and terror in the reader. One of the sources ...
La Lecture du fantastique: Terreurs littéraires, peurs sociales
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
In recent years, horror stories have become more and more popular with a socially diverse reading public. This article, based on a study of readers' approach to horror stories, will deal with how artificial fears are ...
L'Horreur dans la Bibliothèque! Bibliographie internationale sélective des études sur l'horreur dans la littérature, la bande dessinée, et le cinéma
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)