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Autobiography in Early Bande dessinée
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Canonical literary autobiographies such as those of Rousseau, Gide or Sartre, provide an individualised and ambiguous introspective that points to intricate universal traits. Nothing could seem further from the stock ...
Robot géant: De l'instrumentalisation à la fusion
(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 ...
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 ...
Médiagénie et réflexivité, médiativité et imaginaire: Comment s'incarnent les fables
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2005)
This article deals with the concept of « médiagénie » (proposed by Philippe Marion starting in 1991) and its uses, as well as that of « médiativité ». Through various examples drawn mostly from the field of comic books, ...
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 ...
Mécanismes d'apparition de la terreur dans les légendes fantastiques de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Spanish writer, 1836-1870) is the author of a series of fantastic "legends", featuring mysterious and unknown worlds, constructed to evoke feelings of fear and terror in the reader. One of the sources ...
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 ...
L'Horreur dans la Bibliothèque! Bibliographie internationale sélective des études sur l'horreur dans la littérature, la bande dessinée, et le cinéma
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
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 ...
CRASH: Metafisica dell'ubiquità
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
The culture of the twentieth century is characterized by three industrial products: the cinema, the car and science-fiction. All three relate to the way we experience time and space. In his novel Crash, J.G. Ballard uses ...