Vol. 04 No. 2, May 2005
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Item Open Access L'érudition face à la numérisation de l'information(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005-05) Fraisse, EmmanuelItem Open Access Contents - Belphégor Vol 4 No 2(2005-05) Frigerio, VittorioItem Open Access Naissance Europolar(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005-05) Mesplede, ClaudeItem Open Access The Crime Fiction Canada Project(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005) Sloniowski, Jeannette; Rose, MarilynItem Open Access Le Cyberspace opera, ou le Web à l'oeuvre(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005) Pons, Christian-MarieLe 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 l'interesse del lettore. Per quanto abbia ricorso a schemi narrativi prevedibilissimi, il romanzo d'amore è anche paradossalmente sempre vario, disponendo di una vasta gamma d'intrecci. Meno spesso sdolcinato e sentimentale di quanto sia sensuale e audace, riesce a prodigare ai suoi lettori piacevoli sensazioni. Occorre anche evitare di associare a questo genere multiforme fenomeni di assuefazione o di alienazione : non rappresenta un semplice rimedio buon mercato alle frustrazioni dei lettori. In effetti, il romanzo d'amore risponde alle esigenze del suo pubblico proponendosi, come fa la televisione, in quanto strumento di rilassamento, di sogno, di divertimento o d'evasione. Il suo rifuito, basato esclusivamente su pregiudizi e cliché, non ha come effetto che di provocare sentimenti di vergogna e malessere presso i lettori. Accanto alla lettura legittimata esistono altri tipi di lettura che conviene ormai esaminare anch'essi, per ciò che realmente sono.Item Open Access De l'influence de la diffusion sur la presse à grand tirage (1852-1914): Le Petit Journal, Le Petit Parisien, Le Matin et Le Journal(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005) Taveaux-Grandpierre, KarineThis article examines the changes that have occurred in newspaper distribution in France towards the middle of the nineteenth century, and their influence on the press itself and on the literature of the time. These changes affected primarily content, structure and pagination. The author discusses the growing diversification of content, the birth of reportage and of serialized articles close in style to police inquiries, as well as the creation of a distinctive vocabulary and style aiming to attract a new readership. In conclusion it is suggested that, although these changes are important, they should not be overestimated, since technical innovations have also played an important role in newspaper distribution in the same era.Item Open Access Passionnément, à la folie...: Lecteurs et modes de lecture du roman d'amour contemporain(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005) Olivier, SeverineUnderestimated 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 houses. Editors reformat the stories, translators render them without any respect for the author's intentions and with precious little care. The covers are gaudy and the titles saccharine. All in all, love novels seem destined for a public incapable of differentiating between what is a quality product and what is not. However, as an Internet poll has allowed us to determine, readers of love novels are much less socially predetermined and psychologically or intellectually oppressed than one would have presumed. This is shown by the specific abilities they develop by reading their favourite genre : use of an appropriate meta-language, choice of the novels to be read based on the basis of who the author is, reading in the original language, and so forth. The usual, fairly stereotyped image of the reader of love stories does not stand up to examination. In quite the same way, the criticism leveled towards love novels themselves is sometimes baseless. Although they may be easily readable and quite predictable, they also know how to hold the reader's interest through an appropriate use of suspense. Their narrative scheme may be repetitious, but paradoxically it is also quite varied, as it can rely on a wide variety of different plots. They are more often sensual and audacious than sugary and sentimental, and manage to serve up to the reader the sweet feelings he/she seeks. This complex genre should certainly not be automatically associated with ideas of addiction or alienation. It is not simply a palliative remedy to the reader's frustrations. Quite like television, love novels respond the needs of their readers by taking on a role of providers of relaxation, fun or escapism. Rejecting them without analysis and spurning them without first examining how they are being read only exacerbates feelings of shame and marginalization amongst the readers. Other ways of reading exist beside those accepted by the cultural institutions, and the time has come to examine them in their own right.Item Open Access O Barba Azul : Edições Infantis, Versões Orais e Folheto Nordestino(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005) Guimaraes, Rosangela Maria OliveiraThe article "O Barba Azul: edições infantis, versões orais e folheto nordestino" (Bluebeard : children's editions, oral versions and popular versions from the North-East) examines a series of oral versions of this particular tale published in Europe, in Brazil by publishers specialized in children's literature, and in the popular literature of Brazil's North-Eastern region. To discuss the question "Mito e história na versão nordestina do Barba Azul" (Myth and History in the version of Bluebeard from Brazil's North-East) we compare different versions of this tale, including the one published in the collection "Contos da Carochinha" (by Figueiredo Pimentel) and the booklet "História do Barba Azul" (History of Bluebeard). We come to the conclusion that this particular children's story is based on a « printed matrix » that allows for the eventual proliferation of diverse popular versions.Item Open Access Médiagénie et réflexivité, médiativité et imaginaire: Comment s'incarnent les fables(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005) Groensteen, ThierryThis 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, the author shows that these concepts are useful to identify important theoretical questions, but that they are too vague to achieve significant results.Item Open Access La Vocation de la photographie amateur: Hambourg (1893-1900)(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005) Joschke, ChristianThis article discusses the development of amateur photography in the last decade of the nineteenth century. It focuses particularly on the activities of amateur clubs in Hamburg. The author explores matters of cultural legitimacy, the new discourse on the nature of the photographic image and the various uses of photography by these new practitioners. Alongside these matters, it examines technical innovations, the birth of specialized magazines, the adoption of photography by the bourgeoisie, big and small, and its growing use as a documentary medium.