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Des Stratégies argumentatives aux pratiques de lecture: Un Itinéraire de recherche de l'espionnage aux policiers
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
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 ...
De la 'petite Annie' à la 'grande Ernaux': L'Evolution de la critique, des Armoires vides à Passion simple (1974-1992)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)
This article offers a polemical perspective on the critical reception of Annie Ernaux's first books, over approximately twenty years. A methodical analysis of newspaper articles shows the workings of a pernicious, hidden ...
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 ...
I'm Not Scared' ...: I'm Marketable
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
This article is a critical assessment of Niccolò Ammaniti's novel and Gabriele Salvatores' homonymous film I'm not scared in their attempt at portraying the point of view of a child within an Italian family at the end of ...
Les Masses de Mars: Le Récit de guerre en France, 1951-1981
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
This article deals with war fiction in France in serialized popular publications from the end of the "boulangiste" movement to the end of compulsory military service (1889-2001). During and immediately after the First World ...
Eclipse, exil et survie du krimi en Allemagne nazie (1933-1945)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
The German Krimi from the Nazi period finds itself in an ambiguous ideological position: how does one narrate the crime and its resolution when delinquency is not to be mentioned under the Third Reich and the police becomes ...
Passionnément, à la folie...: Lecteurs et modes de lecture du roman d'amour contemporain
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
Underestimated even among paraliterary genres, the love novel is often met with rejection and scorn The criticism it attracts can certainly be explained in part by the unscrupulous methods used by specialized publishing ...
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 ...
Les 'Chéries noires': Ecriture féminine et roman noir
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)
Towards the end of the eighties and through the nineties, women have been increasingly visible and present in the field of French "noir" fiction, up until then reserved for men, as opposed to the more traditional thriller ...