Belphégor: Recent submissions
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Les Bourlingueuses de la plume: Portraits de voyageuses-écrivains dans l'entre-deux-guerres
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)For a woman in the inter-war period, getting into the media game of travel writing is an adventure in itself. In spite of this, many have tried to rival the male writers/travellers of the time and to impose their own style ... -
Le Roman-feuilleton français au XIXe siècle
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2008)This electronic publication of Lise Queffélec-Dumasy’s celebrated work Le roman-feuilleton français au XIXe siècle inaugurates Belphégor’s e-library, whose principal goal is to help develop the study of popular literature ... -
Portrait de l'anarchiste dans l'oeuvre littéraire de Ricardo Flores Magón
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)Ricardo Flores Magón (1873-1922) was the instigator of the most radical movement of the Mexican Revolution, "magonismo". He was a militant, a propagandist, a journalist, but also a writer, who authored quite a number of ... -
Breaking the Frame: Anarchist Comics and Visual Culture
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)The emergence of the comics medium as part of modern visual culture has posed several questions for anarchists engaged with the arts: to what extent can comics be regarded as "popular" culture in the substantive sense 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, ... -
La Bande dessinée francophone contemporaine à la lumière de sa propre critique: Quand une avant-garde esthétique s'interroge sur sa pérennité
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)This article starts from a discussion of two works (Jean-Christophe Menu's Plates-Bandes and Lewis Trondheim's Désoeuvré, both published in early 2005 by L'Association) to propose some ways of analyzing cooperation between ... -
L'Anarchiste' dans le cinéma de fiction français: Un Motif singulier entre caricature bienveillante et charge malintentionnée
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)Since the end of the 19th century, anarchists have been represented almost exclusively as violent, godless and lawless terrorists. This caricature, loosely based upon some real propagandists of the period from 1892 to 1894 ... -
L'Anarchiste français au miroir du nihiliste russe dans la série Fantà´mas
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)The series of popular novels featuring Fantômas, written in collaboration by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain, has often been considered close to anarchism if not outright anarchist, and presents some libertarian characters. ... -
Displacement and Shifting Geographies in the Noir Fiction by Cesare Battisti
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007-06)This article examines the recurrent theme of displacement in a series of novels and short stories by the exiled Italian author Cesare Battisti, both within a broader context of contemporary exile theory and, more specifically, ... -
Vivir entre las nubes: Il racconto di anticipazione e la poesia utopica nel mondo libertario spagnolo del XIX secolo
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)This article offers a look at the world of Spanish anarchism and its utopian tendencies, through the analysis of how short stories and poetry were used to announce a possible new form of society. The themes, the structures ... -
Jules Verne au pays du manga
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)Jules Verne is still known nowadays because of his technological imagination, and has considerably influenced two of the major authors of Japanese animation: Hayao Miyazaki (Chihiro's Travels) and Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis ... -
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 Chick lit ou les mémoires d'une jeune femme 'dérangée'
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2007)In 1998, in France, Helen FIELDING's Bridget Jones' Diary met with great success and stimulated literary imitators, while on TV, series such as Ally MacBeal and Sex and the City were widely followed. "chick lit" is now in ... -
Fantomate ou comment parle le chien d'un (Petit) Vampire
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Fantomate is the talking dog in Joann Sfar's series "Le Petit Vampire", comprising comics, animated cartoons and children's novels. Talking "funny animals", as Harry Morgan calls them, are a common presence in comics. ... -
La Redistribution des emplois vaudevillesques chez Eugène Labiche
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Traditionally presented as the protoype of the French vaudeville, Labiche's theatre, quite apart from its generic exemplarity, constitutes a critique of the "well-done play" of Scribe. To this end, it substitutes to the ... -
Lorsque le grand-père se fait petit garçon: Le Personnage du grand-père complice du jeune héros dans la BD et la littérature pour la jeunesse
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)This article deals with the representation of the figure of the "grandpa" and its role within the family through the stories of Le Petit Spirou, by Tome and Janry, and the series Manolito Gafotas, by Elvira Lindo. Both are ... -
L'Allusion comique: Petits rà´les et seconds couteaux dans le travestissement, le pastiche ou la parodie
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)While studying various kinds of tales (comics, movies, novels), we asked ourselves the following initial question: In which kind of work do secondary characters play the greatest role? Present-day commerce and contemporary ... -
Seconds rôles, duos et trios dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Jules Verne
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)In Jules Verne's works, the hero is never alone, not even when he seeks solitude. Various novels presenting a search theme feature an entire team of characters. This is partly dictated by the genre itself of the "imaginary ... -
Les Fictions à épisodes télévisuelles: Quelle place pour les personnages secondaires face aux héros multiples?
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Characters in TV serials are less and less alone. This phenomenon of the "multiple hero" is not new. One can therefore wonder whether secondary characters still have a role to play in this system. The analysis of three ... -
Lily et James Potter, ou les visages morcelés de l'unité perdue
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)In Harry Potter, the multiplicity of secondary characters supports the hero's identity quest and mirrors the tight logic of J. K. Rowling's universe. First of all, one must go beyond the superficial opposition between ...