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

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  • The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
    The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at:history - an integrated...
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    101,14 €

  • Limits of horror
    Fred Botting
    This is a major re-evaluation of the role and cultural significance of Gothic horror. It offers analysis of literary, film, art and popular cultural texts and critical explanations of key terms (horror, uncanny etc.) to interrogate the contemporary and historical significance of monsters, vampires and ghosts in technological and consumer culture. ...
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    29,60 €

  • King Arthur’s Children
    Tyler R. Tichelaar / Tyler RTichelaar
    Did you know King Arthur had many other children besides Mordred?Depending on which version of the legend you read, he had both sons anddaughters, some of whom even survived him. From the ancient tale of Gwydre,the son who was gored to death by a boar, to Scottish traditions of Mordredas a beloved king, Tyler R. Tichelaar has studied all the references toKing Arthur’s children ...
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    15,93 €

  • A Weird Writer in Our Midst
    S. T. Joshi
    It is well known that H. P. Lovecraft was virtually ignored by the mainstream literary community in his time, being known only in the tiny worlds of amateur journalism and fantasy fandom. And yet, it is surprising how much comment on Lovecraft appeared in various venues, both obscure and prominent, in his own time and just shortly after his early death in 1937. This volume gath...
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    27,62 €

  • Martha Grimes Walks Into a Pub
    Sarah D. Fogle
    Since the 1979 discovery of her work in a slush pile at Little, Brown, Martha Grimes has gone on to publish more than 30 books, win international acclaim (and a Nero Wolfe Award) for her detective series, and develop a following of readers whose loyalty translates to repeated stays on the best-sellers lists. This collection of 10 critical essays provides an in-depth analys...
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    72,14 €

  • 21st-Century Gothic
    Selected by a poll of more than 180 Gothic specialists, the fifty-three original works discussed in 21st-Century Gothic represent the most impressive Gothic novels written around the world between 2000-2010. ...
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    133,67 €

  • William Gibson
    Lance Olsen
    Lance Olsen's discerning critique was the first extended study ever published on the work of William Gibson, whose mindbending science fiction novel, Neuromancer (1984), created the subgenre of Cyberpunk, and became the first novel to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards for best SF novel of the year. Olsen covers Gibson's major early works, including Neuromancer, Bu...
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    16,75 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
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    41,65 €

  • Holocaust as Fiction
    William Collins Donahue
    Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink’s internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the widely read 'Selb' detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work. With the help of wide-ranging reception data, the work of Holocaust scholars, as well as cultural and legal reflections on the concept of guilt...
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    132,68 €

  • The Theatre of Shelley
    Jacqueline Mulhallen
    This is the first full-length study of Shelley’s plays in performance. It offers a rich, meticulously researched history of Shelley’s role as a playwright and dramatist and a reassessment of his 'closet dramas' as performable pieces of theatre.With chapters on each of Shelley’s dramatic works, the book provides a thorough discussion of the poet’s stagecraft, and analyses perfor...
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    30,82 €

  • The Theatre of Shelley
    Jacqueline Mulhallen
    This is the first full-length study of Shelley’s plays in performance. It offers a rich, meticulously researched history of Shelley’s role as a playwright and dramatist and a reassessment of his 'closet dramas' as performable pieces of theatre. With chapters on each of Shelley’s dramatic works, the book provides a thorough discussion of the poet’s stagecraft, and analyses perfo...
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    53,67 €

  • Adapting Detective Fiction
    Neil McCaw
    Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts. But it is also more than this. It is a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detective fiction plays in this. It is about the mutually-informing interrelation of ...
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    259,00 €

  • Robin McKinley
    Evelyn M. Perry / Evelyn MPerry
    This study of fantasy author Robin McKinley is the first full-length, in-depth analysis of the author’s works, including her award-winning books The Blue Sword (Newbery Honor, 1983) and The Hero and the Crown (Newbery Medal, 1985). ...
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    92,13 €

  • The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction
    Bradford Lyau
    Following World War II, the Fleuve Noir publishing house published popular American genre fiction in translation for a French audience. Their imprint Anticipation specialized in science fiction, but mostly eschewed translations from English, preferring instead French work, thus making the imprint an important outlet for native French postwar ideas and aesthetics. This critic...
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    79,35 €

  • Robert E. Howard
    Leon Nielsen
    Robert E. Howard published primarily in pulp magazines, creating memorable characters like Conan of Cimmeria. After his suicide at the age of 30, pulps continued publishing Howard material posthumously. His first hardcover book appeared in 1937, a year after his death. That book, A Gent from Bear Creek, is the holy grail for Howard collectors--only 12 original copies are kno...
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    35,39 €

  • Crime Culture
    By broadening the focus beyond classic English detective fiction, the American hard-boiled crime novel and the gangster movie, Crime Cultures breathes new life into staple themes of crime fiction and cinema. Leading international scholars from the fields of literary and cultural studies analyze a range of literature and film, from neglected examples of film noir and true cri...
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    258,82 €

  • Philip K. Dick
    Lejla Kucukalic
    Kucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows that the author is a serious and relevant philosophical and cultural thinker whose writing offer us important insights into contemporary digital culture ...
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    93,80 €

  • The Silver Age of Comics
    William Schoell
    WILLIAM SCHOELL is the author of many books on pop culture, film and the performing arts, as well as biographies. His film and pop culture books include Comic Book Heroes of the Screen; The Nightmare Never Ends: The Official History of Freddy Kruger and the ’Nightmare on Elm Street’ Films; Creature Features: Nature Turned Nasty in the Movies and Stay Out of the Shower, the fir...
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    31,42 €

  • London Gothic
    London has taken a central role in urban Gothic, from key canonic texts like Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula through modern Gothic texts to the ’tourist gothic’ of rebranded gastropubs and ghost tours. As a specific category, London Gothic is becoming as important for understanding ourselves today as it has been for thinking about t...
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    259,03 €

  • Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies
    Patrick D Murphy / Patrick D. Murphy / Patrick DMurphy / Patrick Murphy
    This study provides a wide ranging discussion of contemporary literature and cultural phenomena through the lens of ecological literary criticism, giving attention to both theoretical issues and applied critiques. In particular, it looks at popular literary genres, such as mystery and science fiction, as well as actual disasters and disaster scenarios. Ecocritical Explorations ...
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    64,10 €

  • The Magical World of the Inklings
    Gareth Knight
    'Because of the combination of information, understanding and insight on which it is founded, The Magical World of the Inklings is more than outstanding. It is not in the same league with anything else I have come across.' - Owen Barfield The works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams and Owen Barfield have had a profound impact on the contemporary world. Togethe...
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    28,79 €

  • Spaceships and Politics
    Leslie Dale Feldman
    Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling examines the political themes in The Twilight Zone. In this unique show, Rod Serling used fantasy and the supernatural to explore political ideas such as capital punishment, the individual and the state, war, conformity, the state of nature, prejudice, and alienation. He used aliens and machines to understand human na...
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    132,20 €

  • Spaceships and Politics
    Leslie Dale Feldman / Leslie Feldman
    Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling examines the political themes in The Twilight Zone. In this unique show, Rod Serling used fantasy and the supernatural to explore political ideas such as capital punishment, the individual and the state, war, conformity, the state of nature, prejudice, and alienation. He used aliens and machines to understand human na...
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    64,38 €

  • Greenery
    Gillian Rudd
    Greenery blends current ecological concerns with informed analysis of medieval literature to arrive at new readings of late medieval English texts, some canonical (eg Malory’s Morte D’Arthur, Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Chaucer’s Knight’s and Franklin’s Tales) some less frequently studied (lyrics, Patience, Sir Orfeo). ...
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    29,64 €

  • Running from the Hunter
    Harold Lee Prosser
    Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) burst upon the science fiction scene in the 1950s, writing award-winning short stories, teleplays for The Twilight Zone and other TV programs, and screenplays for The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, Burn Witch Burn!, The Premature Burial, and many others. This reprint of the 1996 edition provides a comprehensive survey of the author’s work, with chronology...
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    16,69 €

  • The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature
    These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the early development of these media. The essays also place the work in a cultural context, addressing theory and terminology, adaptations of comic books, the superhero genre, and comic books and graphic novels that deal with history and nonfiction. By addressing the topic from a wide range of perspec...
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    42,78 €

  • Science Fiction, Imperialism and the Third World
    Though science fiction is often thought of as a Western phenomenon, the genre has long had a foothold in countries as diverse as India and Mexico. These fourteen critical essays examine both the role of science fiction in the third world and the role of the third world in science fiction. Topics covered include science fiction in Bengal, the genre’s portrayal of Native Ameri...
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    50,21 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 7 No. 1) January-February 1983
    The Mystery Fancier, Volume Seven Number One, January-February 1983, contains: 'Captain Joseph T. Shaw’s Black Mask Scrapbook,' by E. R. Hagemann, 'Detection by Other Means,' by Bob Sampson, 'Joe Orton’s and Tom Stoppard’s Burlesques of the Detective Genre,' by Earl F. Bargainnier, 'Bloody Balaclava: Charlotte MacLeod’s Campus Comedy Mysteries,' by Jane S. Bakerman and 'Spy Ser...
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    9,12 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 7 No. 2) March-April 1983
    The Mystery Fancier, Volume 7 Number 2, March-April 1983, contains: 'Young Detective Kildare,' by Evelyn Herzog, 'The World of Nero Wolfe,' by Asbjorn Skytte, 'An Interview with Desmond Bagley,' by Jane S. Bakerman and 'Deduction in Duplicate,' by Alan S. Mosier. ...
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    9,12 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 7 No. 3) May-June 1983
    The Mystery Fancier, Volume 7 Number 3, May-June 1983, contains: 'Closing the Gap: A Critique,' by John Nieminski, 'The Fattest Man in the Medical Profession,' by Bob Sampson and 'Deadly Edges of the Gay Blade,' by Martha Alderson. ...
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    9,12 €


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