Catálogo de libros: Estudios literarios: ficción, novelistas y prosistas

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  • Conversations with Todd McFarlane
    Jake Zawlacki
    Over thirty years after his initial ascent to super stardom, Todd McFarlane (b. 1961) remains one of the most popular and contentious comic artists ever. The interviews compiled in this volume offer a nuanced portrait of McFarlane’s polarizing character. Beginning with his earliest days on Spider-Man to the months before the hotly anticipated release of Spawn and ending with hi...
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    158,33 €

  • Conversations with Todd McFarlane
    Jake Zawlacki
    Over thirty years after his initial ascent to super stardom, Todd McFarlane (b. 1961) remains one of the most popular and contentious comic artists ever. The interviews compiled in this volume offer a nuanced portrait of McFarlane’s polarizing character. Beginning with his earliest days on Spider-Man to the months before the hotly anticipated release of Spawn and ending with hi...
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    35,57 €

  • Varied Types
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Varied Types is a collection of essays by G.K. Chesterton that offers a series of insightful and often humorous portraits of notable figures from literature, history, and society. Chesterton’s keen observations and sharp wit shine through as he examines the personalities and ideas of figures such as Charlotte Brontë, Alfred the Great, and Sir Walter Scott, among others. This co...
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    13,41 €

  • The Defendant
    G. K. Chesterton / Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton / GKChesterton
    Varied Types is a collection of essays by G.K. Chesterton that offers a series of insightful and often humorous portraits of notable figures from literature, history, and society. Chesterton’s keen observations and sharp wit shine through as he examines the personalities and ideas of figures such as Charlotte Brontë, Alfred the Great, and Sir Walter Scott, among others. This co...
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    11,13 €

  • Writing the Cozy Mystery
    Phyllis M. Betz
    This book brings together essays written by a number of well-known writers of cozy mysteries, including Sherry Harris, Amanda Flower, Leslie Budewitz, and Edith Maxwell, among others, who provide insight into their approaches to writing. Topics covered include how they work with the form, develop characters and settings, and utilize the particular hook, skill or business th...
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    57,71 €

  • Entangled Desires
    Tyree Whitworth
    In 'Entangled Desires: A Tale of Love and Betrayal,' Tyree Whitworth masterfully weaves a gripping narrative that delves into the complexities of human emotions and relationships. The story follows Chaz, a man recently released from an eight-year prison sentence, as he navigates the treacherous waters of love, betrayal, and redemption.Upon his release, Chaz faces a world that h...
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    22,82 €

  • A Detective’s History of Psychology
    Diane Mello-Goldner
    Are you captivated by detective fiction and mystery stories? Do you enjoy solving puzzles or explaining other people’s behavior? Have you ever thought Miss Marple would make a good therapist or Sherlock Holmes an excellent researcher? If so, you probably have already seen the connection between detective fiction and the field of psychology. This book introduces key concep...
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    57,42 €

  • Entangled Desires
    Tyree Whitworth
    In 'Entangled Desires: A Tale of Love and Betrayal,' Tyree Whitworth masterfully weaves a gripping narrative that delves into the complexities of human emotions and relationships. The story follows Chaz, a man recently released from an eight-year prison sentence, as he navigates the treacherous waters of love, betrayal, and redemption.Upon his release, Chaz faces a world that h...
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    23,77 €

  • Printing terror
    Michael Goodrum / Philip Smith
    Printing Terror argues that horror comics of the Cold War primarily concern white male victimhood and the monstrosity of the gendered and/or racialised other. ...
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    43,95 €

  • Batman and the Shadows of Modernity
    Rafael Carrión-Arias
    It is a multidisciplinary work that brings together comic studies, philosophical criticism and literary criticism to try to reconstruct this connection through the genealogical study of both little-known historical materials and ubiquitous materials seen in a new light. ...
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    240,84 €

  • The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad
    Debra Romanick Baldwin
    The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad attests to the global significance and enduring importance of Conrad’s works, reception, and legacy. This groundbreaking collection shows how Conrad’s works - their artistry, vision, and ideas - continue to challenge, perplex, and delight. ...
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    375,60 €

  • Recovering Police Legitimacy
    Rafe McGregor
    Recovering Police Legitimacy challenges conventional criminological, political, and public solutions to the problem of legitimacy. Written accessibly for students, police officers, policymakers, scholars, and anyone with an interest in police legitimacy, this is a groundbreaking study of a pressing social problem. ...
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    66,09 €

  • The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction
    Andrew Green / Roger Dalrymple
    This book presents an exploration of how Golden Age detective fiction encounters educational ideas, particularly those forged by the transformative educational policymaking of the interwar period. ...
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    241,39 €

  • Strange Novel Worlds
    Since the publication of the first James Blish novelizations of Star Trek episodes in 1967, close to 900 tie-in novels, anthologies, and omnibus editions have been published. Star Trek tie-in novels have had a significant influence on Western popular culture. The works of beloved science fiction authors have shaped the way fans understand Star Trek and its universe, and many...
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    79,15 €

  • The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
    The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years. ...
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    374,89 €

  • Cartoons and Antisemitism
    Ewa Stańczyk
    Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imagery been fully realized or so blatantly apparent than on the eve of the Second World War. In Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland, scholar Ewa Stańczyk explores how illustrators conceived of Jewish people in ...
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    42,70 €

  • From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich
    Neale Barnholden
    Between the 1930s and the invention of the internet, American comics reached readers in a few distinct physical forms: the familiar monthly stapled pamphlet, the newspaper comics section, bubblegum wrappers, and bound books. From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics places the history of four representative comics--Watchmen, Uncle Scrooge, Richie Rich, ...
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    142,51 €

  • From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich
    Neale Barnholden
    Between the 1930s and the invention of the internet, American comics reached readers in a few distinct physical forms: the familiar monthly stapled pamphlet, the newspaper comics section, bubblegum wrappers, and bound books. From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics places the history of four representative comics--Watchmen, Uncle Scrooge, Richie Rich, ...
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    43,12 €

  • Cartoons and Antisemitism
    Ewa Stańczyk
    Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imagery been fully realized or so blatantly apparent than on the eve of the Second World War. In Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland, scholar Ewa Stańczyk explores how illustrators conceived of Jewish people in ...
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    158,16 €

  • The First Geeks
    Orty Ortwein
    The writer Ray Bradbury, science fiction expert Forry Ackerman, and special effects genius Ray Harryhausen are world-famous for their careers involving tales of the imagination. Before anyone had heard of them, they were friends as teens and college-aged boys enjoying all that 1930s L.A. had to offer: getting celebrity autographs, watching blockbuster movies, and haunting do...
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    58,61 €

  • Taxidermy and the Gothic
    Elizabeth Effinger
    Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermy’s imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin deep: these are rich discourses stuffed by affinities for corporeal transgressions, the uncanny, and the counterfeit. ...
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    158,44 €

  • Everyday Evil in Stephen King’s America
    This edited collection variously interrogates how everyday evil manifests in Stephen King’s now-familiar American imaginary; an imaginary that increases the representational limits of both anticipated and experienced realism. ...
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    241,23 €

  • Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature
    Israel A. C. Noletto
    Fictional languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present a multifaceted account of the literary phenomenon of glossopoesis (language invention). ...
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    240,90 €

  • EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century
    Sue Edney
    Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material ecocritical methodology to examine uncanny vegetal agency. Monster plants, mystical trees, fairy groves, grim lakes and talking flowers are among the topics, seen through prose, poetry and painting. ...
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    35,77 €

  • Fantastic histories
    Victoria Flood
    Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent political uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance, revealing the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality. ...
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    157,12 €

  • Connie Willis’s Science Fiction
    Carissa Turner Smith
    This collection argues that Connie Willis’s oeuvre performs science fiction’s task of cognitive estrangement by highlighting by highlighting our human inability to read the times correctly-and yet also affirming the ethical imperative to attempt to truly observe and record our temporal location ...
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    73,05 €

  • Futures of the Human Subject
    Sławomir Kozioł
    Drawing on Foucault-inflected philosophy of technical mediation, Futures of the Human Subject analyzes several recent science fiction novels, examining their representations of the relation between people and specific technologies and of the way in which this relation affects human subjectivity. ...
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    73,24 €

  • Copyright Vigilantes
    Ezra Claverie
    Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero explains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations. In movies based on characters owned by the comics duopoly of DC and Marvel, no narrative recurs more often than a villain’s attempt to copy the superhero’s unique powers. In this volume, author Ezra Claverie explains this fixa...
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    158,28 €

  • Shaolin Brew
    Troy D Smith
    Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero looks at how the comic book industry developed from a white perspective and how minority characters were and are viewed through a stereotypical white gaze. Further, the book explores how voices of color have launched a shift in the industry, taking nonwhite characters who were originally viewed through a white lens ...
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    158,16 €

  • Shaolin Brew
    Troy D Smith
    Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero looks at how the comic book industry developed from a white perspective and how minority characters were and are viewed through a stereotypical white gaze. Further, the book explores how voices of color have launched a shift in the industry, taking nonwhite characters who were originally viewed through a white lens ...
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    42,70 €


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