Browsing Dalhousie University Libraries by Subject "French literature"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Homo Sapiens & Homo Globine, ou Les avatars du vampire!
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)The author offers a guided tour of the innumerable representations of the vampire, in novels as well as in the movies. He deals in particular with the migrations of the vampire from genre to genre and from media to media, ... -
Idéologie et stratégies argumentatives dans les récits imprimés de grande consommation. XIXe – XXIe siècles': Balises liminaires
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Ils aiment le roman sentimental et alors? Lecteurs d'un 'mauvais genre', des lecteurs en danger?
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Images de la femme dans le roman sentimental
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Imperialism in Asterix
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)The Asterix books, having been written over a long period of time, have reflected a number of contemporary concerns which were relevant at the time of composition - some of which are still relevant today. One of these ... -
Information, médias et récit médiatique
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)Information is a product with a cultural dimension, representing an economic value and circulating trans-nationally. This mediatized information (divulged by micro-narratives that we both consume and contribute to create) ... -
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 ... -
Keeping an Eye on Things: Attention, Tracking and Coherence-Building
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Much has been written about the way in which narrative sequences operate in BD, not least by Eisner, and McCloud. Such approaches, despite their subtleties, presuppose a model of narrative in which actions or events are ... -
L'Anarchiste français au miroir du nihiliste russe dans la série Fantà´mas
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)The series of popular novels featuring Fantômas, written in collaboration by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain, has often been considered close to anarchism if not outright anarchist, and presents some libertarian characters. ... -
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 ... -
De l'importance du genre en culture médiatique
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)In the field of mass fiction, the question of genre is as fundamental as that of the medium being used, as the logic of a series often depends upon genre-based classifications. Popular literature, therefore, could be ... -
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)This 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 ... -
De la 'petite Annie' à la 'grande Ernaux': L'Evolution de la critique, des Armoires vides à Passion simple (1974-1992)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)This article offers a polemical perspective on the critical reception of Annie Ernaux's first books, over approximately twenty years. A methodical analysis of newspaper articles shows the workings of a pernicious, hidden ... -
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 ... -
La bande dessinée historique : une source possible pour l'historien. L'exemple de la collection Vécu (1985-2002)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)The Glénat Editions were created in 1969 and have since become one of the greatest publishers of bandes dessinées in France. In the early 80s this publisher took advantage of a favourable context to create a series of ... -
La Censure du roman sentimental en France ou le refoulement des mauvais genres
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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 ...