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

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  • The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction
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    120,08 €

  • Arab and Muslim Science Fiction
    How is science fiction from the Arab and Muslim world different than mainstream science fiction from the West? What distinctive and original contributions can it make? Why is it so often neglected in critical considerations of the genre? While other books have explored these questions, all have been from foreign academic voices. Instead, this book examines the nature, genesi...
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    81,12 €

  • Equipping Space Cadets
    Emily Midkiff
    Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children argues for the benefits and potential of 'primary science fiction,' or science fiction for children under twelve years old. Science fiction for children is often disregarded due to common misconceptions of childhood. When children are culturally portrayed as natural and simple, they seem like a poor audience for...
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    50,28 €

  • Equipping Space Cadets
    Emily Midkiff
    Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children argues for the benefits and potential of 'primary science fiction,' or science fiction for children under twelve years old. Science fiction for children is often disregarded due to common misconceptions of childhood. When children are culturally portrayed as natural and simple, they seem like a poor audience for...
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    158,44 €

  • Jeff Lemire
    Dale Jacobs
    In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario--his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC material, how influential Crisis on Infinite Earths and DC’s Who’s Who were on him as a developing comics fan, his first reading of Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, and his tra...
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    42,94 €

  • Jeff Lemire
    Dale Jacobs
    In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario--his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC material, how influential Crisis on Infinite Earths and DC’s Who’s Who were on him as a developing comics fan, his first reading of Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, and his tra...
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    158,40 €

  • Powers of Darkness
    A-e A-e / Bram Stoker / Rickard Berghorn
    Foreword by Professor Clive Bloom and with Emil Åberg’s original illustrations.A unique version of Bram Stoker’s seminal gothic masterpiece Dracula, this novel, from the turn of the nineteenth century, is a very early anti-fascist piece of literature, criticizing the Social Darwinism and scientific racism of the time. Powers of Darkness is also a splendid horror novel twice as ...
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    26,14 €

  • Powers of Darkness
    A-e A-e / Bram Stoker / Rickard Berghorn
    A unique version of Bram Stoker’s seminal gothic masterpiece Dracula, this novel, from the turn of the nineteenth century, is a very early anti-fascist piece of literature, criticizing the Social Darwinism and scientific racism of the time. Powers of Darkness is also a splendid horror novel twice as long as Stoker’s original.First published in Sweden 1899-1900, very little is k...
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    20,12 €

  • Friendship in The Lord of the Rings
    Cristina Casagrande
    The Lord of The Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien, involves many characters with a common goal: the destruction of the Ring of Power. They connect with each other through their individual journeys and become friends.This book analyses how friendship in Tolkien’s seminal work collaborates in the development of the characters, as well as contributing to the success of their final goal.U...
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    29,07 €

  • The Truman Gumshoes
    J.K. Van Dover
    The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to move him (the tough detective was still always male) and his world in new direc...
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    79,57 €

  • The Gothic Literature and History of New England
    Faye Ringel
    The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the origin, nature and future of the Gothic mode in New England’s history and literature, from the Puritans to the present, showing how the legacy of religious intolerance, racism and misogyny haunts fiction, film and popular culture. ...
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    36,02 €

  • Gothic Kernow
    Ruth Heholt / Tanya Krzywinska
    Focussing on written and visual culture that is made in or made about Cornwall, this book argues that Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as ’Kernow’ in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic. ...
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    35,76 €

  • Dorothy L. Sayers
    Eric Sandberg
    Dorothy L. Sayers was one of the 'Queens of Crime.' Alongside writers like Agatha Christie, she perfected the whodunnit, but also used the genre to explore social, ethical, and emotional matters. Her characters, particularly Lord Peter Wimsey and his investigative partner Harriet Vane, struggle with the complexities of life and love in a rapidly changing world while solving ...
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    73,16 €

  • Drawing the Past, Volume 1
    Dorian L Alexander
    Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Dorian L. Alexander, Max Bledstein, Peter Cullen Bryan, Stephen Connor, Matthew J. Costello, Martin Flanagan, Michael Fuchs, Michael Goodrum, Bridget Keown, Kaleb Knoblach, Christina M. Knopf, Martin Lund, Jordan Newton, Stefan Rabitsch, Maryanne Rhett, and Philip Smith History has always been a matter of arranging evidence into a narrative, bu...
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    42,76 €

  • Drawing the Past, Volume 2
    Dorian L Alexander
    Contributions by Dorian L. Alexander, Chris Bishop, David Budgen, Lewis Call, Lillian Céspedes González, Dominic Davies, Sean Eedy, Adam Fotos, Michael Goodrum, Simon Gough, David Hitchcock, Robert Hutton, Iain A. MacInnes, Malgorzata Olsza, Philip Smith, Edward Still, and Jing Zhang In Drawing the Past, Volume 2: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World, contributor...
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    141,90 €

  • Drawing the Past, Volume 2
    Dorian L Alexander
    Contributions by Dorian L. Alexander, Chris Bishop, David Budgen, Lewis Call, Lillian Céspedes González, Dominic Davies, Sean Eedy, Adam Fotos, Michael Goodrum, Simon Gough, David Hitchcock, Robert Hutton, Iain A. MacInnes, Malgorzata Olsza, Philip Smith, Edward Still, and Jing Zhang In Drawing the Past, Volume 2: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World, contributor...
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    42,50 €

  • Drawing the Past, Volume 1
    Dorian L Alexander
    Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Dorian L. Alexander, Max Bledstein, Peter Cullen Bryan, Stephen Connor, Matthew J. Costello, Martin Flanagan, Michael Fuchs, Michael Goodrum, Bridget Keown, Kaleb Knoblach, Christina M. Knopf, Martin Lund, Jordan Newton, Stefan Rabitsch, Maryanne Rhett, and Philip Smith History has always been a matter of arranging evidence into a narrative, bu...
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    142,16 €

  • On Writing and Worldbuilding
    Timothy Hickson
    Following the immense success of Volume I with over 35,000 copies sold, On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume II brings a host of new topics to table in even more detail and depth. Writing advice tends to be full of ’rules’ and ’tips’ which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. Aimed at specific, applicable, and practical discussions, from writing fight scenes to...
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    15,96 €

  • The Villain’s Journey
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    The villain’s journey is rare in popular culture--most characters are fully-formed tyrants with little to no story arc. However, a few particularly epic series take the time to develop complex villains, including Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Increasingly, villains’ origin stories have found new popular...
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    57,39 €

  • Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature
    Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez
    The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia-from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali. ...
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    180,72 €

  • English Magic and Imperial Madness
    Peter D Mathews / Peter D. Mathews
    Regency England was a pivotal time of political uncertainty, with a changing monarchy, the Napoleonic Wars, and a population explosion in London. In Susanna Clarke’s fantasy novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, the era is also witness to the unexpected return of magic. Locating the consequences of this eruption of magical unreason within the context of England’s imperial ...
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    57,66 €

  • Speculative Modernism
    James Reitter / Robert Stauffer / William Gillard
    Speculative modernists--that is, British and American writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror during the late 19th and early 20th centuries--successfully grappled with the same forces that would drive their better-known literary counterparts to existential despair. Building on the ideas of the 19th-century Gothic and utopian movements, these speculative writers antici...
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    57,36 €

  • The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829
    Christina Morin
    A compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. ...
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    35,72 €

  • The Force of The Umbrella Academy
    Lisann Anders
    Even as the major superhero film franchises appear to be exhausting their runs The Umbrella Academy demonstrates that the superhero genre is still extremely effective at creating role models with lasting psychological resonance and allegories with extraordinary emotional impact. These essays give a voice to the misunderstood family members of The Umbrella Academy in the comi...
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    57,66 €

  • Dis-Orienting Planets
    Isiah Lavender
    Contributions by Suparno Banerjee, Cait Coker, Jeshua Enriquez, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Malisa Kurtz, Stephanie Li, Bradford Lyau, Uppinder Mehan, Graham J. Murphy, Baryon Tensor Posadas, Amy J. Ransom, Robin Anne Reid, Haerin Shin, Stephen Hong Sohn, Takayuki Tatsumi, and Timothy J. Yamamura Isiah Lavender III’s Dis-Orienting Planets amplifies critical issues surroun...
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    50,03 €

  • The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton
    John C Tibbetts / John C. Tibbetts
    This is a critical study of the great British man of letters G.K. Chesterton, devoted to the novels, stories and essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination. 'Everything is different in the dark,' wrote Chesterton; 'perhaps you don’t know how terrible a truth that is.' Chesterton’s use of the theme of 'gargoyles' provides the thematic structure of the book...
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    80,51 €

  • Mid-century gothic
    Lisa Mullen
    Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with optimism about the future. By reassessing the novels, films, visual culture and technologies of the period, the book argues that gothicism itself was redefined by the upstart objects of modernity. ...
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    35,91 €

  • Nineteenth Century Detective Fiction
    LeRoy Lad Panek
    In English and American cultures, detective fiction has a long and illustrious history. Its origins can be traced back to major developments in Anglo-American law, like the concept of circumstantial evidence and the rise of lawyers as heroic figures. Edgar Allen Poe’s writings further fueled this cultural phenomenon, with the use of enigmas and conundrums in his detective st...
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    79,57 €

  • Hounded
    Vince Stadon
    'I think my wife might be right. I am going slightly mad.' Hounded is an escape from the anxiety of reaching a half-century, written during the pandemic of 2020 and into the spring of 2021, during which comedy writer Vince Stadon experienced every film, TV, audio drama, spoken word reading, documentary, stage play, pastiche, graphic novel, animation, kids cartoon, and PC game v...
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    18,39 €

  • Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of Emotion
    Jacob Risinger
    An exploration of Stoicism’s central role in British and American writing of the Romantic periodStoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic writers made a bold new case for expression, adopting “powerful feeling” as the bedrock of poetry. Stoic Romanticism and the Ethics of ...
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    135,80 €


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