Frédéric Dumas, Mark Twain : Tourisme et vanité by Stéphanie Carrez

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Le monument naturel dans le mythe de l’Ouest chez Washington Irving, Mark Twain et Walt Whitman by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov

“…This article deals with the image of the natural monument and considers its function in 19th-century representations of the West, especially in three travel narratives—A Tour on the Prairies by Washington Irving, Roughing It by Mark Twain and Specimen Days by Walt Whitman. An emblem of the old European nations, the monument is paradoxically omnipresent in the representations of the Western wilderness and appears as a structuring paradigm. …”
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An Intimate Relationship. The City, the River, and their Wor(l)ds. Echoes from New Orleans and Vicinity by Mario Maffi

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The Deer Hunter : essai de topologie imaginaire américaine by Jacques Pothier

“…In this film the dichotomies between civilization/the wilderness, male space / female territory, national vs. ethnic identities present in the American imagination from Cooper to the classic western through Washington Irving or Mark Twain, are thoroughly revisited through the tragic counterpointing of a Russian working-class community in a Pennsylvania small town and an Asian heart of darkness. …”
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