Browsing Vol. 02 No. 1, November 2002 by Subject "novel"
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Cognitive Mapping im Cyberpunk: Wie Jugendliche Wissen über die Welt erwerben
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)The first part of the article follows Fredric Jameson's analysis of cultural practices in Late Capitalism or Postmodernism. The second part discusses Cyberpunk - already proclaimed dead by some media and literary pundits ... -
Geronimo as Translator
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)Using French thrillers as a pedagogical tool in an advanced French culture class may prove pertinent on three levels. 1/ The reader benefits from the genre's specific effect -- he wants to know what comes next. And in order ... -
Gustave Aimard traverse l'océan, ou de l'utilité des mythes
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)Gustave Aimard published several dozen Western novels in France, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Their success in France was replicated in the United States. It may seem paradoxical that a French author can ... -
Il Corsaro Nero e Il Capitano Blood: Una lettura comparata di alcuni lavori di Emilio Salgari e di Rafael Sabatini
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)This article compares Emilio Salgari's novel Il Corsaro Nero and Rafael Sabatini's novel Captain Blood. Both stories share the same time-frame (the mid seventeenth-century) and the same geographical location (the Caribbean ... -
La Fiction cyclique, au-delà des frontières du roman: Asimov, King, Tolkien
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)Cyclical fictional universes go beyond the limits of the novel. This first transgression, which is integral to the definition of the cycle itself, provokes what we could call a "will to completeness" in cyclical fiction. ... -
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 ... -
Révolte et révolution: Des tigres de Salgari à ceux de Paco Ignacio Taibo II
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)Mexican author Paco Ignacio Taibo II brings back to life in his novels the character of Sandokan, the Malaysian pirate created by Italian novelist Emilio Salgari in the last decade of the nineteenth century. His appropriation ...
