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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, ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
Le Capitaine Haddock, ou l'irruption de l'humanité dans Les Aventures de Tintin
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
Did Captain Haddock's arrival on the scene slowly change the status of Tintin's adventures? In Les Bijoux de la Castafiore and Tintin et les Picaros, the sidekick steps up to the front row, likely because it's easier for ...
La doble dimensión trágica de Barrie y Peter Pan
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)
Most of the works of James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan in particular, explore the relationship between the adult's world and the child's one, with the death set in a privileged location, since only the dead children (as his ...
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 ...
Livros de Magia
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)
Dans l'édition populaire sud-américaine, et dans la brésilienne en particulier, les livres de magie jouissent encore de nos jours d'un succès certain. L'ensemble de ces ouvrages constitue de fait une sorte de trame de la ...
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 ...