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Voyages en nostalgie explores the body of cultural and artistic productions chosen for their evocative power and ability to trigger, through reading, music, ads, television fiction, films, and video games, memories of special moments. If our very existence is built on meeting people in the flesh, it is also shaped by countless virtual interactions, mediatized by the artistic creations their authors bring to our attention. It is through these creations that we build our identity. We learn to live and know ourselves through different views of the world. Some creations spontaneously awaken emotions tied to our experiences. Others reside in our subconscious, ready to emerge unexpectedly or after willingly digging up memories or carrying out memory work. They are screens on which we project ourselves and platforms for our own expression. This is a hybrid text, the register alternating between erudite and personal, exploring the recollections these creations trigger in the subject who encounters them. To each his nostalgia … Published in French.

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Reading Denis Bachand's nostalgias means going to the source of this strange emotion that inhabits all important works. But it's primarily giving into the pleasure of looking back at your own past, which we always inevitably embellish a little. That is, after all, the name of the game. -- Marc-Francois Bernier Lire les nostalgies de Denis Bachand, c'est remonter a la source de cette drole d'emotion qui habite toutes les oeuvres d'importance. Mais c'est surtout se laisser empoigner par le plaisir de retourner soi-meme a la rencontre de son passe, qu'on embellit toujours un peu forcement. C'est justement la regle du jeu. -- Marc-Francois Bernier

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A native of Waterloo in the Eastern Townships and now living in Gatineau, Quebec, Denis Bachand is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa. His teaching and research interests lie at the confluence of arts, culture, and media. With a literary background, he writes with a focus on literature, comic books, advertising, television, cinema, multimedia, and hypertext.

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