Supernatural beast, in its carnivorous aspect, admirably served the initial perspective of fantasy literature, at the beginning of the XIXth century : to create the fear. The "fear of beast", embodied in avatars of voracious predator, knew in this way a frequent and varied use. Later, in the XXth century, confronted with readers who were not so sensitive to this fear, the project of fantasy has become more intellectual. Supernatural zoology has given way to animals able of upsetting human being deeply, without threatening mouth, just with their frightening strangeness and their subtle unlikelihood. The opening to foreign literatures and cultures, major rule of comparative literature, gives us the opportunity to consider, in this thesis, sto...
The animal character and the animal narrator have always played an important role, either in mytholo...
If animals have always had a place in literature, this one seems to evolve over time, so that, while...
As a member of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy in the XIXth century, Le Fanu experienced the p...
Supernatural beast, in its carnivorous aspect, admirably served the initial perspective of fantasy l...
International audienceThe fascination with wild beasts, well highlighted by Jean-Christophe Bailly i...
At the turn of the twentieth century and increasingly until the Second World War, French-language li...
Ce travail propose de lire un moment de l’histoire littéraire française à travers le prisme de l’ani...
Fear of wolves is a totemic fear found in almost all cultures, starting with the Indo-European civil...
International audienceIf animal characters belong to a literary tradition going back to Antiquity, c...
Au tournant du XXe siècle, et de façon de plus en plus prononcée jusqu’à la veille de la seconde gue...
International audienceOver the last years, the human-animal border came under increasing scrutiny, i...
Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented myster...
International audienceThe article explores the representation of wolves in a series of works publish...
In this paper I want to present a case study of one particular monster – La Bête du Gévaudan, which ...
This study focuses on the significance of the presence of animals in literature today and in particu...
The animal character and the animal narrator have always played an important role, either in mytholo...
If animals have always had a place in literature, this one seems to evolve over time, so that, while...
As a member of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy in the XIXth century, Le Fanu experienced the p...
Supernatural beast, in its carnivorous aspect, admirably served the initial perspective of fantasy l...
International audienceThe fascination with wild beasts, well highlighted by Jean-Christophe Bailly i...
At the turn of the twentieth century and increasingly until the Second World War, French-language li...
Ce travail propose de lire un moment de l’histoire littéraire française à travers le prisme de l’ani...
Fear of wolves is a totemic fear found in almost all cultures, starting with the Indo-European civil...
International audienceIf animal characters belong to a literary tradition going back to Antiquity, c...
Au tournant du XXe siècle, et de façon de plus en plus prononcée jusqu’à la veille de la seconde gue...
International audienceOver the last years, the human-animal border came under increasing scrutiny, i...
Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented myster...
International audienceThe article explores the representation of wolves in a series of works publish...
In this paper I want to present a case study of one particular monster – La Bête du Gévaudan, which ...
This study focuses on the significance of the presence of animals in literature today and in particu...
The animal character and the animal narrator have always played an important role, either in mytholo...
If animals have always had a place in literature, this one seems to evolve over time, so that, while...
As a member of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy in the XIXth century, Le Fanu experienced the p...