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Les Masses de Mars: Le Récit de guerre en France, 1951-1981
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
This article deals with war fiction in France in serialized popular publications from the end of the "boulangiste" movement to the end of compulsory military service (1889-2001). During and immediately after the First World ...
Lily et James Potter, ou les visages morcelés de l'unité perdue
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
In Harry Potter, the multiplicity of secondary characters supports the hero's identity quest and mirrors the tight logic of J. K. Rowling's universe. First of all, one must go beyond the superficial opposition between ...
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. ...
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 ...
Les 'Chéries noires': Ecriture féminine et roman noir
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)
Towards the end of the eighties and through the nineties, women have been increasingly visible and present in the field of French "noir" fiction, up until then reserved for men, as opposed to the more traditional thriller ...
Contes d'auteur: Etre écrivaine algérienne aujourd'hui
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)