Vol 10 No. 2, August 2011
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Item Open Access Contents - Belphégor Vol 10 No 2(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-08) Frigerio, VittorioItem Open Access The Phantom of the Opera: An Annotated Bibliography(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-08) Yelinek, KathrynItem Open Access Ransom, Amy. "Science Fiction from Québec: A Postcolonial Study." McFarland, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-7864-3824-2(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-08) Weiss, AllanItem Open Access Dieter Vermandere, Monica Jansen, Inge Lanslots (a cura di) Noir de noir. Un’indagine pluridisciplinare. Bruxelles: Peter Lang 2010, 270 pp. ISBN : 978-90-5201-630-6(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-08) Tirinanzi De Medici, CarloItem Open Access The study of novelisation: A typology and secondary bibliography(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-08) Van Parys, ThomasItem Open Access Enrique Rodrigues-Moura (ed.) Indicios, señales y narraciones: Literatura policíaca en lengua española. Innsbruck, Allemagne: Innsbruck University Press, 2010. 230 p. ISBN 978-3-902719-42-3(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-08) Lavoie, Sophie M.Item Open Access Race, histoire et décadence dans les récits « préhistoriques » de J. H. Rosny aîné(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-08) Laforge, FrancoisItem Open Access Lits, Marc. Le genre policier dans tous ses états, D'Arsène Lupin à Navarro. Limoges: Pulim, 2011, 194 p. ISBN : 978-2-84287- 531-2(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-08) Ferreira-Meyers, KarenItem Open Access Riempire i vuoti. La verità, la memoria, l’immaginazione. Monica Jansen & Jasmina Khamal (a cura di). Memoria in Noir. Un’indagine pluridisciplinare. Bruxelles-Bern-Berlin- Frankfurt am Main-New York-Oxford-Wien: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2010. 313 p. ISBN: 978- 90-5201-667-2 “(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-08) Fattori, AdolfoItem Open Access La realtà è letteraria. Di cose che si trovano nei sogni, nei ricordi, nei romanzi F. Campbell, Padre e memoria Tra fiction e neuroscienze. S. Maria C. Vetere: Ipermedium 2011. 175 p. € 14,00. ISBN: 978-88-86908-96-2 (Padre y memoria, 2009)(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-08) Fattori, AdolfoItem Open Access L’immédiat de la guerre(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-08) Bleton, PaulItem Open Access Vaincre l'auteur Les Assassins de l'île du Nègre(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011-08) Bachellerie, F. C.Item Open Access Le Beurgeois de F. Boudjellal: Cynique ta beurgeoisie ou ethnique ta France !?(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011) Reyns, ChrisThe 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” (second-generation Arab immigrants) “self-made men” intent on just accumulating wealth. It explains how the author uses multiple allusions to the French Revolution – a fundamental reference in the years that go from the victory of the Gauche in 1981 to the Bicentennial of 1989 – to put on the same level the rise of the Bourgeoisie in the 19th century and that of the “Beur”geoisie in the Eighties, both proving quite cynical once in power. This is done in the context of a discussion of how Boudjellal uses very effectively the specific linguistic and visual means of the comics medium to achieve this goal.Item Open Access Emilio Salgari e Il Re del Mare Un romanzo tra esotismo e tecnologia(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011) Luzi, AlfredoThis 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 in new scientific developments, quite widespread in between the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. The genesis of the novel, based on documentary, historical, geographic and scientific materials, leads to the identification of the thematic and literary archetypes of the novel. These confirm Salgari’s modernity and confute the widespread critical prejudice that considers this author purely a popular producer of mass-market novels.Item Open Access 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) Screech, Matthew"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 satirise current events. I chart Tintin's entry into Le Canard, give his emergence a historical context and appraise his performance as a satirical instrument. The focus is on three hitherto neglected works: "Tintin à la recherche du Veau d'or" , a biblical/Faustian allegory, evokes the French IVth Republic endangered by the Algerian war (J. Lap, 1958). "Les Nouvelles Histoires de Tintin et Michou" portrays de Gaulle at his zenith with Tintin as the great leader (G. Macé and Grum, 1961). The four-part "Tintin-Michou" series copies Hergé's panels, puts them out of order and adapts them, in order to satirise the 1965 presidential elections and the Ben Barka affair (H. Escaro, 1965/6). Tintin's adventures in Le Canard document a rapidly receding era of French political history. Appropriation by Le Canard also places value on Hergé's hero: Tintin is accepted into a literary canon recognised by a politically aware adult readership.Item Open Access 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) Leroy, FabriceThe 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 on the various degrees with which this type of literature makes its supernatural element visible — how it strikes a balance or maintains a tension between pure suggestion (drawing a maximum of effects from an often unkept promise of showing the macabre or the supernatural) and the actual exhibition of strange happenings. Between hyperbolic overstatement and allusive understatement of a terrifying subject matter, and between the explicit and implicit sides of this equation, the question of what is shown can also be approached as a narrative contract between a narrator and his audience. In this article, I analyze the contrasted and complementary devices that underpin two short stories by Jean Ray, Les sept châteaux du roi de la mer [The Seven Castles of the King of the Sea] et Dürer l’idiot [Dürer the Idiot]. Many of Jean Ray’s fantastic fictions indeed present themselves in the form of an oral narration and stage a storytelling situation in a public context (spooky stories told viva voce in seaport taverns, for instance). By its recurrent sabotage of the verbal storytelling accounts and its repeated enunciative derailing, Les sept châteaux du roi de la mer opts for the formula of the “empty” narrative, which unfolds reflexively and reiterates its promise of frightening revelations without ever disclosing its thematic material, systematically kept out of scope, as if its very articulation were impossible or cursed. In contrast with this extreme form of under-representation, Dürer l’idiot experiments with the opposite formula and relies on the device of a narrative whose excesses in representation result themselves in the materialization of the supernatural in the ordinary world of the story.Item Open Access ¿Héroes o villanos? Comics y derechos fundamentales en Estados Unidos(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2011) Sarasola, Ignacio FernandezItem Open Access Elephant Man, l’eroe della diversità. Dal freak show vittoriano al cinema di Lynch. A cura di Gabriele Mina. Genova : Le Mani, 2010. 190 p. ISBN : 978-88-8012-562-4(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre., 2011-08) Frigerio, VittorioItem Open Access Castaldi, Simone. Drawn and Dangerous. Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. 150 p. ISBN: 978-1-60473-749-3(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre., 2011-08) Frigerio, Vittorio