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Alice in Wonderland ou la démesure comme règle d'or Deborah Bridle-Surprenant Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis La publication des aventures d'Alice en 1865 marque un véritable bouleversement dans le paysage littéraire victorien : pour... more
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This article explores the works of Lewis Carroll through the lens of Clément Rosset’s concept of the real and the illusion. Rosset’s essay Le Réel et son Double guided my analysis of Carroll’s novels and enabled me to establish a link... more
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The purpose of this article is to understand the concepts of haunting and spectrality in their larger sense and to use them as keys to decipher Arthur Machen’s short stories. By understanding haunting as the manifestation of a repetition,... more
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      Victorian LiteratureDecadence (Literature)Horror LiteratureFantastic Literature
In his short story “The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise”, Thomas Ligotti chooses Christmas as backdrop and fundamental element of the plot, which belongs to the horror and fantastic genres. The paper seeks to demonstrate how Christmas is... more
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Nous emploierons désormais dans nos notes l'abréviation Wonderland.
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La publication des aventures d'Alice en 1865 marque un véritable bouleversement dans le paysage littéraire victorien : pour de nombreux critiques, c'est l'avènement de l'Âge d'Or de la littérature pour enfants en Grande-Bretagne, grâce à... more
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This article is about creative accounting in join stock company, it shows advantages and disadvantages and it also describes reasons why the share holders deform financial statements. On the simple example it will shown the impact of... more
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This essay was drafted in the context of a seminar entitled “Imagining a City: Glasgow Urban Writers” in 2011. This paper was corrected and augmented in 2014. It deals with the issue of holism in Alasdair Gray’s first novel Lanark, A... more
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      Scottish LiteratureDiscourse AnalysisCultural HistoryCultural Studies
The nature of the ghost of Shakespeare in Hamlet is still debated today, according a paper published by Thomas Rist in Shakespearan Sensations: Experiencing Literature in Early Modern England (2013). When adapted, the play is indeed not... more
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      Cultural StudiesRenaissance StudiesCultural History Of GhostsLiterary Theory
Colloque Institut des Amériques: "De l'Amérique aux Amériques: dynamiques d'un continent patchwork", Nov 2014, Nice, France. Communication publiée sur HAL SHS. 2015. Mots-clefs : études américaines, histoire, géographie, études... more
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      Discourse AnalysisAmerican HistoryCultural StudiesAmerican Studies
Review of Agnieszka Soltysik-Monnet's 2014 conference in Nice (« Lincoln et la guerre : L’Adresse de Gettysburg dans la culture Américaine ») published by Transatlantica.
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In his history of religion in American foreign policy, Andrew Preston noted that US President Abraham Lincoln, although he did not claim to know God's will, believed that "he was an instrument of providence" (Preston, 2012, 173-4). The... more
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Dans le cadre de la journée Bande Dessinée et Traduction du 25 septembre 2014 organisée à l'ENS de Lyon par le laboratoire Sciences Dessinées, nous avons eu le plaisir d'écouter Lili Sztajn, traductrice professionnelle venue évoquer avec... more
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      Translation StudiesComics/Sequential ArtComics and Graphic NovelsBande dessinée
This paper was first published in New Readings vol. 15 (2015). I would like to thank the editorial team for their guidance and suggestions. This article is based on an interview with Lili Sztajn, a French professional translator. Among... more
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      Translation StudiesComics StudiesComics/Sequential ArtComics and Graphic Novels
This French MA dissertation deals with dreams in Neil Gaiman's Sandman. My contention is that dreams should not be viewed simply as an unproblematic motif that recurs through the series, but rather as a constitutive element of the work's... more
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      Comics/Sequential ArtComics and Graphic NovelsNeil Gaiman
The notion of identity lies at the core of many Vertigo comics prduced during the 1990s and 2000s; this presentation suggests a specific entry into this vast field of inquiry through an examination of the mask motif. Masks are frequently... more
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      Comics StudiesComics/Sequential ArtComics and Graphic NovelsNeil Gaiman
This article suggests a comparison between Lewis Carroll's “Alice Books” and Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and Gormenghast, on the grounds that both diptychs portray the irruption of a child protagonist into a fantasy world characterized by... more
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Elfquest made history as one of the first successful alternative comics of the late 1970s. It is set apart by its large female readership, its non-superheroic themes and the unusual graphic style of its author, Wendy Pini. However,... more
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This article examines authorial performance in the context of DC's Vertigo line. In the 1990s, Vertigo gained its reputation as an innovative and progressive imprint by promoting the work of British scriptwriters, who were hailed as true... more
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Popular and academic discussions of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic often tend to contrast the “expected audience” of very young girls with an adult, mostly male “unexpected audience.” This polarizing view begs the question of what... more
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