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Psychological Terror and Social Fears in Philip K. Dick's Science Fiction
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
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 ...
Horreur des villes maudites dans l'oeuvre de H. P. Lovecraft
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft is forever weaving the same spider-web, in which both his hero and his readers invariably get caught. The real curse of his ancient cities (R'lyeh, Innsmouth, Arkham, Marblehead, Kingsport, Dunwich ...
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 ...
La Planète Mars dans les romans de science-fiction anglo-saxons des années 1990: La Peur du monstre de pierre
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
When it deals with the planet Mars, nineteen-nineties science-fiction faces an alternative: either the heroes adapt to Mars' hard conditions (and that's "pantropy"), or they adapt Mars to make it livable for human beings ...
Horreur, hyperbole et réticence chez Lovecraft
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
The work of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) represents a kind of « discursus interruptus » on horror and on the literary language that can best represent it. Lovecraft invents a new kind of horror, more hyperbolic ...