Belphégor: Recent submissions
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Theatrical aspects in the cinematographic adaptations of Peter Pan: reminders of the initial form of the story
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)While Peter Pan celebrates his hundredth birthday in 2011, we all feel like, beyond his existence in a play, a book or a film, the ageless boy Peter now belongs to the popular culture, along with legendary characters such ... -
Le Beurgeois de F. Boudjellal: Cynique ta beurgeoisie ou ethnique ta France !?
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)The goal of this article is to show how Boudjellal, in his graphic novel Le Beurgeois, managed to juggle a denunciation of racial discrimination in France with a denunciation of the mores of the new class of “Beur” ... -
Tintin au Pays du Canard enchaîné. Hergé’s Hero re-invented in Political Cartoons of the 1950s and the 1960s
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)"Tintin au Pays du Canard" discusses Tintin's role as a vehicle for satire in Le Canard enchainé. This newspaper, which combines humour with investigative journalism, frequently used the Francophone literary canon to ... -
Emilio Salgari e Il Re del Mare Un romanzo tra esotismo e tecnologia
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)This article adopts a socio-literary approach to identify the two cultural nuclei present in Salgari’s novel that have equally influenced the writer: exoticism (highly developed in late 19th century Europe) and an interest ... -
¿Héroes o villanos? Comics y derechos fundamentales en Estados Unidos
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Le fantastique et son énonciataire : figures de l’indicible et sortilèges de la narration dans Les sept châteaux du roi de la mer et Dürer l’idiot de Jean Ray
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011)The literary criticism devoted to the mechanics of the implicit and the poetics of indetermination that characterize, according to various theoreticians, the structural functioning of the fantastique genre, often focuses ... -
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 ... -
Crímenes para armar: amuleto de Roberto Bolaà±o
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)Twentieth century Argentine literature plays with genre. From the military junta’s dictatorship whose violence and clandestineness provoked historiography’s interruption in 1976, we discover a number of novels that closely ... -
Ecriture d'une histoire politique à travers le polar militant en Argentine
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Quelle fin pour Pedro McEvoy? Le Dénouement renoué de Rue des Boutiques Obscures
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)The narrative conventions which underlie and structure the detective novel’s intrigue have been the object of pastiches, parodies and ironic subversions in a number of important works of the last half century. From Gommes ... -
Padura, creando desde el presente la memoria del futuro
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)Interview with Leonardo Padura Fuentes. -
Le Polar maghrébin sous la plume de Yasmina Khadra: Comment l'enquàªte policière devient enquàªte politique...
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)In the context of a reflection which is centred around the relationship between the detective novel and politics, the works of Yasmina Khadra constitute an important example which merits attention; because of the contend ... -
Les Naufragés de l'intelligence: Un Polar noir
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)This study is a reading of Les naufragés de l’intelligence [The Shipwrecked of Intelligence] by Ivory Coast writer Jean-Marie Adiaffi as a noir fiction detective novel. It demonstrates that Adiaffi’s text is built on the ... -
Il romanzo poliziesco italiano, 1964-2007: La memoria tra noir, enigmi e post-fascismo
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)Italian detective stories have strong ties with noir fiction since the beginning of the Sixties. Among other cultural issues, the rapid industrialization of Italy after the Second World War and all its subsequent phenomena ... -
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 ... -
Roman policier ou roman politique: Le Polar selon Sciascia
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)Leonardo Sciascia’s oeuvre is related to both politics and the detective genre. The reader is thus invited to consider the possibility of a link between these two essential components and to study his novels from that point ... -
Rodolfo Walsh ou le polar de la résistance péroniste
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)Rodolfo Walsh is a writer little known outside Argentina. Considered by some critiques as a simple journalist and not as a writer, he always maintained a confrontational relationship with detective novel. This article ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Le Roman policier: Témoin de l'histoire politique zimbabwéenne
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)The political thriller reveals facts above all. The politicization of the crime novel (Rohrback, 2007) allows authors to go beyond a more sociological description of their societies to denounce “the situation of the dominated ...