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  • Portrait de l'anarchiste dans l'oeuvre littéraire de Ricardo Flores Magón 

    Doillon, David (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
    Ricardo Flores Magón (1873-1922) was the instigator of the most radical movement of the Mexican Revolution, "magonismo". He was a militant, a propagandist, a journalist, but also a writer, who authored quite a number of ...
  • Psychological Terror and Social Fears in Philip K. Dick's Science Fiction 

    Bettanin, Giuliano (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 ...
  • Quand la science-fiction précède la science : La Conception de l'histoire d'Isaac Asimov dans Fondation 

    Grimoult, Cedric (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
    In the initial Foundation trilogy (1941-1953), Isaac Asimov adopts a probability-based view of human history, resulting from accidental events brought together by the selective pressure of diverse socio-cultural factors. ...
  • Quelle fin pour Pedro McEvoy? Le Dénouement renoué de Rue des Boutiques Obscures 

    Duriez, Shawn (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
    The narrative conventions which underlie and structure the detective novel’s intrigue have been the object of pastiches, parodies and ironic subversions in a number of important works of the last half century. From Gommes ...
  • Redire, refigurer: Traces et cicatrices dans Hunors 

    Sohet, Phillippe; Nguyen, Nhu-Hoa (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
    Throughout a career that covers a variety of narrative forms, Chantal Montellier's focus remains the same. Many of her albums bear the marks of personal suffering from social violence inflicted upon the poor, the weak and ...
  • Réenchanter le monde : Barrie lu par Rackham 

    Fievre, Francois (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)
    The first illustrator of Peter Pan has also been, paradoxically, the one who has taken the greatest liberties with the character, in relation to the myth he will become, both iconographically and symbolically. Arthur Rackham ...
  • Robot géant: De l'instrumentalisation à  la fusion 

    Suvilay, Bounthavy (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 ...
  • Rodolfo Walsh ou le polar de la résistance péroniste 

    Thomas, Jean Baptiste (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
    Rodolfo Walsh is a writer little known outside Argentina. Considered by some critiques as a simple journalist and not as a writer, he always maintained a confrontational relationship with detective novel. This article ...
  • Roman policier ou roman politique: Le Polar selon Sciascia 

    Prigent, Gael (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
    Leonardo Sciascia’s oeuvre is related to both politics and the detective genre. The reader is thus invited to consider the possibility of a link between these two essential components and to study his novels from that point ...
  • "Sea roads": The Circulatory Poetics of The Song Fishermen's Song Sheet 

    Carroll, Marissa L. (2022-08-25)
    This thesis responds to Peter Thompson’s call for fieldwork that considers the circulation of conceptions and artistic representations of the Folk at home and elsewhere in early twentieth-century Atlantic Canadian literature. ...
  • Sens dessus dessous: Lecture sémiolinguistique de l'espace dans l'oeuvre d'Edgar P. Jacobs 

    Freyermuth, Sylvie (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
  • Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique 

    Bettinotti, Julia; Jeannesson, Gaelle; Truel, Marie-Francoise (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
    The goal of the authors of this article is to discuss the specific form of repetition that Umberto Eco calls "remake". The serial aspect of remakes is based on the systematic use of processes of repetition that produce ...
  • Sonhos de Chico Xavier 

    Fernandes, Magali (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
    This article deals with a peculiar figure on the Brazilian scene, an author of spiritualist works known as Chico Xavier (April 1910 - June 2002), and in particular with a passage of his biography, which was widely circulated ...
  • Theatrical aspects in the cinematographic adaptations of Peter Pan: reminders of the initial form of the story 

    Wensierski, Charlotte (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)
    While Peter Pan celebrates his hundredth birthday in 2011, we all feel like, beyond his existence in a play, a book or a film, the ageless boy Peter now belongs to the popular culture, along with legendary characters such ...
  • Transgressive Bodies in the Work of Julie Doucet, Fabrice Neaud and Jean-Christophe Menu: Towards a Theory of the 'AutobioBD' 

    Miller, Ann; Pratt, Murray (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
    This paper draws on the autobiographical work of bande dessinée artists Fabrice Neaud, Julie Doucet and Jean-Christophe Menu with the aim of investigating the potential of the medium to disturb the normative visual order ...
  • The Translation's Visibility: David B.'s L'Ascension du Haut Mal in Italy 

    Rota, Valerio (Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
    Comics are published all over the world in different formats, which peculiarly characterize each national production. Translating a comic, then, means to cope with cultural aspects: how can a French album, that is a ...
  • Un Souvenir d'enfance de J. R. R. Tolkien 

    Thibault, Franck (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 ...
  • Verso una civiltà  di cyborg? 

    Iannicelli, Gianpaolo (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 ...