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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 ...
Passionnément, à la folie...: Lecteurs et modes de lecture du roman d'amour contemporain
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
Underestimated even among paraliterary genres, the love novel is often met with rejection and scorn The criticism it attracts can certainly be explained in part by the unscrupulous methods used by specialized publishing ...
Le Cyberspace opera, ou le Web à l'oeuvre
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
Le critiche rivolte al romanzo d'amore sembrano anch'esse talvolta prive di basi sufficientemente solide. Che sia leggibile e prevedibile è fuori dubbio, ma ciò non esclude l'utilizzo di tecniche di suspense per mantenere ...
Médiagénie et réflexivité, médiativité et imaginaire: Comment s'incarnent les fables
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
This article deals with the concept of « médiagénie » (proposed by Philippe Marion starting in 1991) and its uses, as well as that of « médiativité ». Through various examples drawn mostly from the field of comic books, ...
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 ...
Un Souvenir d'enfance de J. R. R. Tolkien
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Tolkien's work is home to many terrifying monsters. The spider is one of its most peculiar. It is constantly present in his novels and undergoes changes in its role and function. Tolkien does not use the spider simply to ...
B. Traven, un esthète anarchiste
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
Traven est un écrivain à la biographie mystérieuse. L'ensemble du monde littéraire et du monde militant le désigne comme anarchiste, dont nous retrouvons les idées à travers la lecture de ses romans. La poursuite d'un ...
Philip K. Dick: Psichedelici orizzonti, perversi accoppiamenti e nuove alterità
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
In Philip K. Dick's narrative hyper-realism, the description of how artificial beings intensify their natural capacities goes back and forth between drug-inspired hypertrophic suggestions, and the chimerical images that ...
CRASH: Metafisica dell'ubiquità
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
The culture of the twentieth century is characterized by three industrial products: the cinema, the car and science-fiction. All three relate to the way we experience time and space. In his novel Crash, J.G. Ballard uses ...
Rodolfo Walsh ou le polar de la résistance péroniste
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
Rodolfo Walsh is a writer little known outside Argentina. Considered by some critiques as a simple journalist and not as a writer, he always maintained a confrontational relationship with detective novel. This article ...