Browsing by Subject "fiction"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
I conti in tasca a Salgari
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)This article examines Salgari’s earnings and the expenses he incurred, comparing him to contemporary best-selling authors. -
Idéologie et stratégies argumentatives dans les récits imprimés de grande consommation. XIXe – XXIe siècles': Balises liminaires
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Imperialism in Asterix
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)The Asterix books, having been written over a long period of time, have reflected a number of contemporary concerns which were relevant at the time of composition - some of which are still relevant today. One of these ... -
De Kensington Gardens à Neverland : Peter Pan et ses territoires
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)While constantly transforming the character and the adventures of Peter Pan, James Matthew Barrie also modified their setting. The island of Neverland took the place of Kensington Gardens, the original location of Peter ... -
L'Allusion comique: Petits rà´les et seconds couteaux dans le travestissement, le pastiche ou la parodie
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)While studying various kinds of tales (comics, movies, novels), we asked ourselves the following initial question: In which kind of work do secondary characters play the greatest role? Present-day commerce and contemporary ... -
L'Horreur dans la Bibliothèque! Bibliographie internationale sélective des études sur l'horreur dans la littérature, la bande dessinée, et le cinéma
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L'India di Salgari: Trucchi ed espedienti di un maestro dell'avventura
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)A question many of Salgari's readers have asked themselves, myself included, is how a writer who never actually left Italy can have managed to describe with such amazing effectiveness so many different exotic locales, so ... -
L'Italia e gli Italiani nelle opere di Emilio
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)This article explores Salgari's considerable opus to identify the more properly "Italian" aspects the novelist has included in his yarns. Even though he is known for the exotic locales of his novels, Salgari does not forget ... -
La bande dessinée historique : une source possible pour l'historien. L'exemple de la collection Vécu (1985-2002)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)The Glénat Editions were created in 1969 and have since become one of the greatest publishers of bandes dessinées in France. In the early 80s this publisher took advantage of a favourable context to create a series of ... -
La Chevauchée médiatique de Buffalo Bill
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)This article studies both the story and the legend of Buffalo Bill. It deals with three separate aspects. First, the transition from history (the real adventures of the hero) to literature (their narration in dime-novel ... -
La doble dimensión trágica de Barrie y Peter Pan
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)Most of the works of James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan in particular, explore the relationship between the adult's world and the child's one, with the death set in a privileged location, since only the dead children (as his ... -
La Lecture du fantastique: Terreurs littéraires, peurs sociales
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)In recent years, horror stories have become more and more popular with a socially diverse reading public. This article, based on a study of readers' approach to horror stories, will deal with how artificial fears are ... -
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 ... -
Le Capitaine Haddock, ou l'irruption de l'humanité dans Les Aventures de Tintin
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Did Captain Haddock's arrival on the scene slowly change the status of Tintin's adventures? In Les Bijoux de la Castafiore and Tintin et les Picaros, the sidekick steps up to the front row, likely because it's easier for ... -
Le mythe de Peter Pan ou l'angoisse du temps qui passe
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)In literature, it sometimes happens that a story or a character particularly catches our attention, as well as any other person’s attention, no matter what their age, gender, level of education or native culture may be. ... -
Le Portrait d'Edmond Baudoin: Réflexions sur l'efficacité d'une oeuvre à saisir la vie
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Les masques de Jacobus Hook Partie I/II
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Les masques de Jacobus Hook Partie II/II La moitié qui écrivait de la main gauche… ou Généalogie du vilain nommé Jas. Hook POSTFACE AU DISCOURS CAPITAINE HOOK À ETON
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