Handbag de Mark Ravenhill (1998) : réincarnation de The Importance of Being Earnest à la fin des années 1990 by Xavier Giudicelli

“…It is built around two plots which parallel and intersect each other: one revolves around a lesbian couple and a gay couple having a baby, the other involves a set of Victorian characters and stages a “prequel” of Wilde’s play. Besides, the coded allusions to Bunburying or eating cucumber sandwiches are explicitated in Ravenhill’s version. …”
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Character in Young Adult fiction: The example of Lyra in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials (1995-2000) and The Book of Dust (2017- ) by Virginie DOUGLAS

“…Even if His Dark Materials identified puberty as a turning-point in the young protagonists’ process of growing up and construction of identity, it is significant that Pullman, who had already added a small companion book—entitled Lyra’s Oxford—to the trilogy’s literary universe, is still trying to explore the multiple dimensions of Lyra’s constantly shifting character: while book 1 of The Book of Dust, Pullman’s new trilogy, La Belle Sauvage (2017), is a prequel to His Dark Materials, which focuses on Lyra as a baby—before the action in Northern Lights takes place—, book 2, The Secret Commonwealth (2019), takes a closer look at Lyra once she has become a young woman, after her meeting with Will in His Dark Materials.…”
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Authority and Moral Conflicts in the Films of Adébáyọ Fálétí: Àfọ̀njá, Gáà, Ṣawo Ṣẹ̀gbẹ̀rì and the Yorùbá Cosmopolis by Olayinka Agbetuyi

“…Authority and Moral Conflicts in the Films of Adébáyọ Fálétí 173 production, it was the last to be written among the three and is organically a prequel which builds on the success of Gáà and extends a thematic continuum in the Fágúnwà-esque manner of the novels Ògbójú Ọde Ninu Igbó Irunmọlẹ and Igbo Olódùmarè. …”
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Nous venons en paix : l’immigration dans les films de science-fiction après la Guerre Froide by Samantha Kountz

“…Through the analysis of Alien Nation (1988), Coneheads (1993), Men in Black (1997), the Star Wars prequels (1999-2005) et Man of Steel (2013), the immigration anxiety projected onto aliens in science fiction film will be analysed in order to identify how the immigrants are depicted in Hollywood cinema as well as how the attitude of the American public towards immigration may have changed.…”
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