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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 ...
Redire, refigurer: Traces et cicatrices dans Hunors
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
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 ...
Les Naufragés de l'intelligence: Un Polar noir
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
This study is a reading of Les naufragés de l’intelligence [The Shipwrecked of Intelligence] by Ivory Coast writer Jean-Marie Adiaffi as a noir fiction detective novel. It demonstrates that Adiaffi’s text is built on the ...
Cinquante ans de couvertures de Sélection du Reader's Digest
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)
This article presents the rivalry between text and image within the Reader's Digest magazine and argues that the choice of cover illustrations - particularly in the French version of the magazine - was able to foster a ...
Sens dessus dessous: Lecture sémiolinguistique de l'espace dans l'oeuvre d'Edgar P. Jacobs
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
Le Polar maghrébin sous la plume de Yasmina Khadra: Comment l'enquàªte policière devient enquàªte politique...
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
In the context of a reflection which is centred around the relationship between the detective novel and politics, the works of Yasmina Khadra constitute an important example which merits attention; because of the contend ...
Femme, je vous aime ... '? Nora Roberts, une inconnue sortie de l'ombre dans l'univers sentimental
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)
Even today, it is far from easy for a woman author to achieve recognition while working in an almost exclusively feminine genre, despised by the mostly male critics who wield power in the symbolic domain. Authors of romance ...
Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
The goal of the authors of this article is to discuss the specific form of repetition that Umberto Eco calls "remake". The serial aspect of remakes is based on the systematic use of processes of repetition that produce ...
The Translation's Visibility: David B.'s L'Ascension du Haut Mal in Italy
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Comics are published all over the world in different formats, which peculiarly characterize each national production. Translating a comic, then, means to cope with cultural aspects: how can a French album, that is a ...
... Car la voie droite était perdue': Les Terres creuses de Luc et François Schuiten, ou les Cercles labyrinthiques
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
Within the trilogy entitled Les Terres creuses, the symbol of the circle plays a central role. It evokes at the same time unity and multiplicity, as well as reflection, the tricks mirrors play, as well as the vicious circle ...