Browsing by Subject "1800-1899"
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Articles critiques de Théophile Gautier sur le théâtre de Labiche
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)Between 1838 and 1870, Gautier wrote 65 reviews of plays by Labiche. Before 1851, his compliments are somewhat vague, as if he had not immediately realized this author's importance. However, he is rarely harsh with him, ... -
Brevi note su povertà e ricchezza di Karl May, il Salgari tedesco
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Karl May was born in utter poverty and spent some extremely difficult years in his youth, even ending up in jail. His talent, however, allowed him to escape this situation. His adventure novels earned him a fortune. Upon ... -
Caroline Marbouty ou la 'fausse position' de la femme auteur
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)"Never like today has woman been as under-utilized. The only life accorded to her is that of her feelings, and feelings are devalued." ("Préface to Ange De Spola", Etudes de femmes, 2 volumes, Paris, Victor Magen, 1842). ... -
Chinoiseries sur scène: En avant les Chinois! (1858) et Le voyage en Chine (1865)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)Labiche and Delcourt, in En avant les Chinois! and Le voyage en Chine, use China as an excuse to make fun of typically French situations, and to give an exotic tinge to characters and situations that are very familiar to ... -
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 ... -
Dalle appendici al libro: Su Salgari scrittore d'avventura
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Emilio Salgari originally started off writing for the daily press. No less than five of his novels were published first in daily instalments in various newspapers. These original versions, which have been reprinted only ... -
Dumas et Ponson du Terrail sous le second Empire: Idéologie et esthétique
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Fenomenologia del paesaggio: Il ruolo della descrizione in Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)Roland Barthes states that all literary descriptions originate from a previously "framed" referent, understood first of all in pictorial terms. It may therefore be interesting to compare the different descriptive practices ... -
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 ... -
I conti in tasca a Salgari
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)This article examines Salgari’s earnings and the expenses he incurred, comparing him to contemporary best-selling authors. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Jules Verne au pays du manga
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)Jules Verne is still known nowadays because of his technological imagination, and has considerably influenced two of the major authors of Japanese animation: Hayao Miyazaki (Chihiro's Travels) and Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis ... -
L'Anarchiste' dans le cinéma de fiction français: Un Motif singulier entre caricature bienveillante et charge malintentionnée
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)Since the end of the 19th century, anarchists have been represented almost exclusively as violent, godless and lawless terrorists. This caricature, loosely based upon some real propagandists of the period from 1892 to 1894 ... -
L'Art polémique du Panthéon: Le Cas de l'exposition des Portraits du prochain siècle (1893)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)Held in Paris in 1893, the exhibition of the Portraits du prochain siècle gave rise to a polemic abundantly treated in the literary and political press of the moment. Displaying side by side the portraits of Michel Bakounine ... -
L'India di Salgari: Trucchi ed espedienti di un maestro dell'avventura
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)A question many of Salgari's readers have asked themselves, myself included, is how a writer who never actually left Italy can have managed to describe with such amazing effectiveness so many different exotic locales, so ... -
L'Italia e gli Italiani nelle opere di Emilio
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)This article explores Salgari's considerable opus to identify the more properly "Italian" aspects the novelist has included in his yarns. Even though he is known for the exotic locales of his novels, Salgari does not forget ... -
L'Itinéraire d'une féministe romantique: Carolina Coronado, femme et poète entre force et fragilité
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)Carolina Coronado, born in 1820 in a liberal Spanish family, received in spite of this a very traditional education and was expected to conform to her role as an obedient daughter and wife, whose life would be limited to ... -
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 ... -
La Colonisation comme un roman: Récits de fiction, récits documentaires et idéologie dans le Journal des voyages
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)