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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, ...
Le Portrait d'Edmond Baudoin: Réflexions sur l'efficacité d'une oeuvre à saisir la vie
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
La Bande dessinée francophone contemporaine à la lumière de sa propre critique: Quand une avant-garde esthétique s'interroge sur sa pérennité
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
This article starts from a discussion of two works (Jean-Christophe Menu's Plates-Bandes and Lewis Trondheim's Désoeuvré, both published in early 2005 by L'Association) to propose some ways of analyzing cooperation between ...
Bande dessinée et trifonctionnalité
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
The "théorie trifonctionnelle" of Georges Dumézil identified the foundations of the structures of groups of characters in ancient Indo-European literature. This article starts from an intuition by Joël Grisward, one of ...
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 ...
Gotlib's Progress
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
This article traces the evolution of the French bande dessinée artist Marcel Gotlib (b. 1934). It draws upon strips from throughout his career, as well as upon an interview he gave me. As we shall see, Gotlib humorously ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Monstruosité et réflexion métalittéraire dans Le Fantà´me de l'Opéra de Gaston Leroux
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Hidden between the lines of Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera is a reflection on the relationship between the popular writer and official literature, illustrated metaphorically through the image of the Opera itself. ...