Browsing Vol. 03 No. 2, April 2004 by Title
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Mécanismes d'apparition de la terreur dans les légendes fantastiques de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Spanish writer, 1836-1870) is the author of a series of fantastic "legends", featuring mysterious and unknown worlds, constructed to evoke feelings of fear and terror in the reader. One of the sources ... -
Monstruosité et réflexion métalittéraire dans Le Fantà´me de l'Opéra de Gaston Leroux
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Hidden between the lines of Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera is a reflection on the relationship between the popular writer and official literature, illustrated metaphorically through the image of the Opera itself. ... -
Perrot, Jean, ed. Pinocchio. Entre texte et image. Bruxelles: Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes, 2003. 269 p. ISBN 90-5201-171-0
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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 ... -
Robot géant: De l'instrumentalisation à la fusion
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Through the history of a sub-genre of science-fiction (cartoons featuring giant robots), this article attempts to identify how the robot switches roles, going from simple instrument to essential part of the plot. The various ... -
Textures of Terror: Claire Denis's Trouble Every Day
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Like her last film Beau travail (1998), Trouble Every Day (2001) sees Claire Denis taking a sexual narrative that has been familiarised through theoretical (often psychoanalytic) interpretation and filming it in such a way ... -
Un Souvenir d'enfance de J. R. R. Tolkien
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Tolkien's work is home to many terrifying monsters. The spider is one of its most peculiar. It is constantly present in his novels and undergoes changes in its role and function. Tolkien does not use the spider simply to ...