The 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 ...

Science-fiction and horror are closely related genres, both belonging to the larger domain of fantastic literature. They share a partly common history. This article aims to examine how Philip K. Dick, one of the most ...

"Cultural history" is becoming more and more accepted, but in spite of this increasing recognition, the history of the present still faces specific methodological problems. Three approaches dominate. The history of material ...

Leonardo Sciascia’s oeuvre is related to both politics and the detective genre. The reader is thus invited to consider the possibility of a link between these two essential components and to study his novels from that point ...

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 ...

This article examines the recurrent theme of displacement in a series of novels and short stories by the exiled Italian author Cesare Battisti, both within a broader context of contemporary exile theory and, more specifically, ...

The symbiosis between man and technology is obvious in the robot who is the main character of the movie Bicentennial Man, adapted in 1999 from Isaac Asimov's short story bearing the same title. The humanist search of ...

This paper draws on the autobiographical work of bande dessinée artists Fabrice Neaud, Julie Doucet and Jean-Christophe Menu with the aim of investigating the potential of the medium to disturb the normative visual order ...

Throughout a career that covers a variety of narrative forms, Chantal Montellier's focus remains the same. Many of her albums bear the marks of personal suffering from social violence inflicted upon the poor, the weak and ...