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La Fièvre dans le sens
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
As the enhanced echo chamber of a society, of its complexities and its world of representations, the thriller prefers private individual conflicts to collective tensions. But beyond the drama and interpersonal conflicts, ...
La Chick lit ou les mémoires d'une jeune femme 'dérangée'
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
In 1998, in France, Helen FIELDING's Bridget Jones' Diary met with great success and stimulated literary imitators, while on TV, series such as Ally MacBeal and Sex and the City were widely followed. "chick lit" is now in ...
The Dragon Lady's Well Favored Children: The Transition from Corporatist to Individualist in Comic Strips of 1930s
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
In the 1930s the heroes of American comic strips underwent a significant transformation. Beginning as clowns or as personifications of the values of social elites, comic strip heroes were after 1929 increasingly alienated ...