Fantasy and Landscape: Mountain as Myth in Neil Gaiman's Stories
Résumé
A study of passages from the novels "American Gods" (2001) and "Stardust" (1997), the novella "The Monarch of the Glen" (2004), and the graphic novel "Eternals" (2006-2007), delineating the ungratuitous use of landscape which is typical of fantasy fiction, through the specific analysis of occurrences of mountain settings, the sublime, Gothic atmosphere some of them contribute to establish, and the way most of them partake in the stories' intertextual and mythological systems.
Étude de passages des romans "American Gods" (2001) et "Stardust" (1997), de la nouvelle "The Monarch of the Glen" (2004) et de la bande dessinée "Eternals" (2006-2007), l'article traite de l'utilisation du motif de la montagne, en analysant plusieurs occurrences de paysages montagneux, l'ambiance sublime/"gothique" que certains d'entre eux contribuent à créer, et la façon dont la plupart d'entre eux s'intègrent dans les systèmes intertextuels et mythologiques qui structurent ces récits.