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

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  • Judge, Jury and Executioner
    Alicia M Goodman
    Since the Punisher’s first appearance in the pages of Spider-Man #129, the character has become one of the most popular and controversial figures in Marvel’s vast universe. The Punisher represents one of the most recognizable types of anti-heroes. His iconic skull insignia stands for a unique type of justice: protecting the innocent while violently eliminating everyone he se...
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    57,61 €

  • The Gallant Edith Bratt
    Bunting Nancy / Hamill-Keays Seamus
    Who was Edith Bratt? Millions saw Hollywood’s fantasy version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s one and only love, Edith Bratt, in the 2019 movie, Tolkien. Fact, though, is stranger than fiction, and more interesting. Edith’s story reveals a gallant heroine suffering under 'The Shadow of the Past.' Edith was Ronald’s 'lover,' and much like her mother, Edith risked all for the man she loved. ...
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    30,45 €

  • Book Club Companion #1
    Eva Sandor
    Get straight to the good stuff and boost your book club’s fun quotient today!Get your friends talking with over 100 suggestions for lively discussions- customized to each individual chapter of the intricately twisted comic fantasy FOOL’S PROOF by Eva Sandor. BOOK CLUB COMPANION #1 features 54 concise chapter summaries, with customized questions for each and every one. Chat, ban...
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    5,70 €

  • Polyptych
    Reginald Wiebe
    Through each of its chapters, ’Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics’ examines the complex dynamics of adapting serialized texts. The transmedial adaptation of collaborative and unstable texts does not lend itself to the same strategies as other, more static adaptations such as novels or plays. Building off the foundational work of Linda Hutcheon and Gérard Genette, Pol...
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    54,34 €

  • Tess of The D’Urbervilles
    Thomas Hardy
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    24,37 €

  • Neo-Gothic Narratives
    Sarah E Maier
    ’Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times. ...
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    57,63 €

  • South of the Future
    Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas. ...
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    42,16 €

  • Sara Paretsky
    Cynthia Hamilton / Cynthia S. Hamilton / Cynthia SHamilton
    This is the first book-length study of Sara Paretsky’s detective fiction. Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. ...
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    37,16 €

  • Dream and Literary Creation in Women’s Writings in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
    Isabelle Hervouet
    This edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in women’s writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from the end of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century with a strong focus on the Romantic period and particularly on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. ...
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    180,18 €

  • Adapting Superman
    John Darowski
    Almost immediately after his first appearance in comic books in June 1938, Superman began to be adapted to other media. The subsequent decades have brought even more adaptations of the Man of Steel, his friends, family, and enemies in film, television, comic strip, radio, novels, video games, and even a musical. The rapid adaptation of the Man of Steel occurred before the ch...
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    58,76 €

  • Television’s Outlander
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Over its five seasons on the air, the televised series Outlander has combined romance, adventure, history, and time travel into a classic saga of love, war, and the ties that bind family together. After surviving the 1746 uprising of the Scottish Highlanders, the intrigue-ridden Paris of Charles Stuart, and a sea voyage across the Caribbean, Claire and Jamie Fraser finally s...
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    58,80 €

  • The Mythopoeic Code of Tolkien
    Jyrki Korpua
    J. R. R. Tolkien is arguably the most influential fantasy writer of all time--his world building and epic mythology have changed Western audiences’ imaginations and the entire fantasy genre. This book is the first wide-ranging Christian Platonic reading on Tolkien’s fiction. This analysis, written for scholars and general Tolkien enthusiasts alike, discusses how his fiction ...
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    57,56 €

  • Mark Gruenwald and the Star Spangled Symbolism of Captain America, 1985-1995
    Jason Olsen
    From 1985 to 1995, Mark Gruenwald was the head writer for Captain America. During this decade, Gruenwald wrote some of the most essential stories in Captain America’s history and guided the comic through an eventful period of both world history and comic book history. This book dissects the influence of the world at large on Gruenwald’s stories and the subsequent influence o...
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    57,22 €

  • Is Superman Circumcised?
    Roy Schwartz
    Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world--and he’s Jewish! Introduced in June 1938, the Man of Steel was created by two Jewish teens, Jerry Siegel, the son of immigrants from Eastern Europe, and Joe Shuster, an immigrant. They based their hero’s origin story on Moses, his strength on Samson, his mission on the ...
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    66,44 €

  • The Great Illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe
    Jessica Slayton / Tony Magistrale
    An introduction to some of the most important illustrators producing work inspired by the tales and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe from their earliest iterations in the 1880s to the present day ...
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    181,94 €

  • The Brothers Karamzov
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    The Brothers Karamazov also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th-century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual, theological drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, judgment, ...
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    45,21 €

  • The Idiot
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and gu...
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    38,91 €

  • Korean War Comic Books
    Leonard Rifas
    Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward. Comparing these comics with events that inspired them offers a deeper understanding of the comics industry, America’s 'forgotten war,' and the anti-comics movement, championed by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who criticized their brutalization of the imaginati...
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    73,55 €

  • Under the Literary Microscope
    A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation and the socioeconomic and political spheres. ...
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    143,54 €

  • Caricature and National Character
    Christopher J. Gilbert
    Examines wartime political cartoons—with particular emphasis on the works of James Montgomery Flagg, Dr. Seuss, Ollie Harrington, and Ann Telnaes—to examine how, when, and why graphic caricatures serve to illuminate the US national character. ...
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    143,57 €

  • The Avengers in Video Games
    Blair Farrell
    For decades, Marvel Comics’ superhero group the Avengers have captured the imagination of millions, whether in comics, multi-billion dollar grossing films or video games. Similar to the chronology of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Avengers video games first started with titles driven by single characters, like Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor and Captain America. Over time, the ...
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    57,50 €

  • Reading the Cozy Mystery
    Phyllis M. Betz
    With their intimate settings, subdued action and likeable characters, cozy mysteries are rarely seen as anything more than light entertainment. The cozy, a subgenre of crime fiction, has been historically misunderstood and often overlooked as the subject of serious study. This anthology brings together a groundbreaking collection of essays that examine the cozy mystery from ...
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    57,42 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Shelley
    One of the BBC’s ’100 Novels That Shaped Our World’.200 years after it was first published,Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has stood the test of time as a gothic masterpiece-a classic work of humanity and horror that blurs the line between man and monster... The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a ...
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    16,30 €

  • Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction
    Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction examines how the Anthropocene and its challenges are addressed by contemporary writers in a variety of genres broadly defined as speculative fiction. The book demonstrates that speculative fiction, can alter the readers’ perception of their duties and responsibilities towards their communities. ...
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    142,81 €

  • Speculations of War
    Annette M. Magid
    Late 19th century science fiction stories and utopian treatises related to morals and attitudes often focused on economic, sociological and, at times Marxist ideas. More than a century later, science fiction commonly depicts the inherent dangers of capitalism and imperialism. Examining a variety of conflicts from the Civil War through the post-9/11 era, this collection of ne...
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    79,33 €

  • 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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    157,01 €

  • Star-Spangled Panties
    Carol A. Strickland / Carol AStrickland
    She’s the Amazing Amazon! The celebrated champion of her people!She’s WONDER WOMAN!And she’s the greatest superhero this world has ever seen.A lifelong fan lays out WW’s legend for those who want to know her better. Brush up on the important people, equipment, and lessons that Princess Diana has shown us through the years. Lively chapters show how she came to be, her powers, he...
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    10,70 €

  • Heroes Masked and Mythic
    Christopher Wood
    Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art and literature for centuries, and today are reinvented in the modern superhero. What does Iron Man have to do with the Homeric hero Odysseus? How does the African warrior Memnon ...
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    57,30 €

  • Tolkien and the Classical World
    Hamish Williams
    While scholars have often cited the influence of medieval texts and society on J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal fantasy creations, the role of the classical world - the literature and thought of ancient Greece and Rome - has received far less attention. This volume of essays explores various ways in which Tolkien’s literary creations were shaped by classical epic, myth, poetry, history...
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    39,70 €

  • Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy
    Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds draws on childhood studies scholarship to contextualize children’s agentic entanglements with fantasy. Fantasy offers children opportunities for greater peer connectivity, identity exploration, holistic citizenry, and creative empowerment. ...
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    149,69 €


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