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Geronimo as Translator
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
Using French thrillers as a pedagogical tool in an advanced French culture class may prove pertinent on three levels. 1/ The reader benefits from the genre's specific effect -- he wants to know what comes next. And in order ...
Homo Sapiens & Homo Globine, ou Les avatars du vampire!
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
The author offers a guided tour of the innumerable representations of the vampire, in novels as well as in the movies. He deals in particular with the migrations of the vampire from genre to genre and from media to media, ...
Les Formes à épisodes, des structures multi-médiatiques (parallélisme et interaction des ensembles paralittéraires et télévisés)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
English: Serials as multi-media structures (similarities and interactions between paraliterary and TV narratives). TV and popular literature influence each other since they both make use of similar structures, the two kinds ...
Medicine in Alexandre Dumas père's The Count of Monte Cristo
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
Alexandre Dumas, père, was one of the most prolific writers of all time, with more than 600 books and other writings (no one is sure how many) ranging from romantic historical novels to travel and cook books. Some of his ...
Une Forte Impression: Récit paralittéraire, imprimé et culture médiatique
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
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 ...
Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique
(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 ...
Ecrire pour la jeunesse, ou comment voler la vedette à Super Mario?
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
English: Writing for young people, or How to steal Super Mario's spotlight. What is the nature of the opposition between children's literature and the other media, particularly video games? This article deals with the ...
Chansons d'amour et roman sentimental populaire: Quand l'air ne fait pas la chanson
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
Gustave Aimard traverse l'océan, ou de l'utilité des mythes
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
Gustave Aimard published several dozen Western novels in France, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Their success in France was replicated in the United States. It may seem paradoxical that a French author can ...