Belphégor: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Monstruosité et réflexion métalittéraire dans Le Fantà´me de l'Opéra de Gaston Leroux
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Hidden between the lines of Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera is a reflection on the relationship between the popular writer and official literature, illustrated metaphorically through the image of the Opera itself. ... -
Textures of Terror: Claire Denis's Trouble Every Day
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Like her last film Beau travail (1998), Trouble Every Day (2001) sees Claire Denis taking a sexual narrative that has been familiarised through theoretical (often psychoanalytic) interpretation and filming it in such a way ... -
Il terrore e lo sguardo
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)What is horror's discourse and what is the discourse on horror? The inventor of terror is power – a concept of power that has its ultimate horizon in the divine. But in hell, on the screen or on the page, horror is elsewhere. ... -
L'Horreur dans la Bibliothèque! Bibliographie internationale sélective des études sur l'horreur dans la littérature, la bande dessinée, et le cinéma
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Psychological Terror and Social Fears in Philip K. Dick's Science Fiction
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Science-fiction and horror are closely related genres, both belonging to the larger domain of fantastic literature. They share a partly common history. This article aims to examine how Philip K. Dick, one of the most ... -
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 ... -
Horreur et fantastique: L'Animalité dans le film Nosferatu de Murnau
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Fantastic and horror, as they are experienced through literature, do not create fear in the same way. The feeling of the fantastic comes from the acceptance of the existence of a strange and disquieting alternate universe. ... -
La Terreur des 'Maîtres du temps' fantastiques
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Forever concerned with objectivity, the 19th century opens the era of triumphant positivism. All sciences, from physics to history, will therefore deal exclusively with facts, their analysis and the links between them. ... -
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 ... -
Un Souvenir d'enfance de J. R. R. Tolkien
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)Tolkien's work is home to many terrifying monsters. The spider is one of its most peculiar. It is constantly present in his novels and undergoes changes in its role and function. Tolkien does not use the spider simply to ... -
La Notion d'aventures dans les productions populaires: Roman, cinéma et jeu d'aventures
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)During the 20th century, as adventure novels were progressively losing favour, two couples appeared that would give a surprising new twist to the notion of "adventure": the couple adventure movie/action movie and the couple ... -
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 ... -
Ce genre n'existe pas-pourquoi l'inventer?
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)Stand-up comedy is as low-brow as they come: oral, popular/vulgar, and of course not serious. It is also hardly studied by French academic criticism. In its case, even the problem of the devaluation of media genres (genre ... -
Le Genre cinématographique: Une Catégorie de l'interprétation
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De l'importance du genre en culture médiatique
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)In the field of mass fiction, the question of genre is as fundamental as that of the medium being used, as the logic of a series often depends upon genre-based classifications. Popular literature, therefore, could be ... -
Crise de genres, genres de la crise dans les années 20
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)This article deals with a period of French literary history well-known for having been marked by a major discussion of the literary genre system: the nineteen-twenties. Its goal is to test the actual validity of a partition ... -
Le Genre comme outil d'interprétation en réception: Le Cas des téléséries chiliennes
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)Most research on the telenovela views this type of TV production as a genre with relatively stable characteristics. The research conducted for this article, dealing with identification processes in the reception of the ...
