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L'ultimo upgrade
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
The symbiosis between man and technology is obvious in the robot who is the main character of the movie Bicentennial Man, adapted in 1999 from Isaac Asimov's short story bearing the same title. The humanist search of ...
Le Genre cinématographique: Une Catégorie de l'interprétation
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
Philip K. Dick: Psichedelici orizzonti, perversi accoppiamenti e nuove alterità
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
In Philip K. Dick's narrative hyper-realism, the description of how artificial beings intensify their natural capacities goes back and forth between drug-inspired hypertrophic suggestions, and the chimerical images that ...
CRASH: Metafisica dell'ubiquità
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
The culture of the twentieth century is characterized by three industrial products: the cinema, the car and science-fiction. All three relate to the way we experience time and space. In his novel Crash, J.G. Ballard uses ...
La narrativa italiana contemporanea e il postumano: Tre esempi (con qualche divagazione)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
This article attempts to identify a general model that would help us to understand and interpret the relationship between Italian literature and what has been called the "post-human". It does so through the analysis of ...
Morphing informatique et hybridation technologique: Des artistes plasticiens à la recherche de leur double
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
De l'importance du genre en culture médiatique
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
In the field of mass fiction, the question of genre is as fundamental as that of the medium being used, as the logic of a series often depends upon genre-based classifications. Popular literature, therefore, could be ...
Crise de genres, genres de la crise dans les années 20
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
This article deals with a period of French literary history well-known for having been marked by a major discussion of the literary genre system: the nineteen-twenties. Its goal is to test the actual validity of a partition ...
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 ...
Verso una civiltà di cyborg?
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
More and more often, nowadays, we hear talk of biotechnology, of contaminations between natural things and technical products, of hybrid creatures, of androids and cyborgs. And as it often happens, when strongly innovative ...