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La Fièvre dans le sens
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
As the enhanced echo chamber of a society, of its complexities and its world of representations, the thriller prefers private individual conflicts to collective tensions. But beyond the drama and interpersonal conflicts, ...
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 ...
L'Autobiography di Carlo Tresca
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
Carlo Tresca, born in Sulmona in 1879, emigrated to the United States in 1904. His emigration was dictated by both "traditional" and political reasons. He had already been active within the socialist movement in Italy, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cognitive Mapping im Cyberpunk: Wie Jugendliche Wissen über die Welt erwerben
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
The first part of the article follows Fredric Jameson's analysis of cultural practices in Late Capitalism or Postmodernism. The second part discusses Cyberpunk - already proclaimed dead by some media and literary pundits ...
Le Polar politique: L'é/Etat d'Hózhó dans les romans policiers de Tony Hillerman
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
The concepts defining politics refer to human organizations that legislate rules for people living together in a society. The main purpose is to live in the most harmonious way as possible. It is this search for harmony ...
El (des)orden social y la representación del castigo en la ficción de Sara Paretsky
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
The concepts defining politics refer to human organizations that legislate rules for people living together in a society. The main purpose is to live in the most harmonious way as possible. It is this search for harmony ...
B. Traven, un esthète anarchiste
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)
Traven est un écrivain à la biographie mystérieuse. L'ensemble du monde littéraire et du monde militant le désigne comme anarchiste, dont nous retrouvons les idées à travers la lecture de ses romans. La poursuite d'un ...
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 ...