La maison hantée ou le miroir du territoire à conquérir dans « Dolph Heyliger » de Washington Irving by Françoise Buisson

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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. …”
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From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Mark Niemeyer

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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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