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

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  • In Frankenstein’s Wake
    Alison Bedford
    Just over 200 years ago on a stormy night, a young woman conceived of what would become one of the most iconic images of science gone wrong, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature. For a long period, Mary Shelley languished in the shadow of her luminary husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, but was rescued from obscurity by the feminist scholars of the 1970s and 1980s. ...
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    79,53 €

  • Mr. Sulu Grabbed My Ass, and Other Highlights from a Life in Comics, Novels, Television, Films and Video Games
    Peter David
    Peter David, award-winning writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games, has boatloads of stories to tell about his 30-year career. Whether it was attending George Takei’s wedding, being described as Will Smith’s bodyguard, or wandering around on the set of Babylon 5, David has been telling anecdotes of his life for years. Here they are all in one place, ...
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    42,86 €

  • South of the Future
    Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas. ...
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    127,10 €

  • Becoming Utopian
    Tom Moylan
    A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires activists, artists, and citizens alike. In this book Tom Moylan - one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies - explores the utopian process in its individual and collective trajectory from dream to realization. Drawing on theorists such as Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway and Alain Badiou and sc...
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    160,52 €

  • The Supernatural and Fantastic in Short Detective Fiction
    Laird R. Blackwell
    Although fantasy and supernatural literature have long and celebrated histories, many critics contend that the fantastic and the supernatural have no place in the logical, rational, world of the detective story. This book is the first extensive study of the fantastic in detective fiction and it explores the highly debated question of whether detective fiction and the fantast...
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    79,49 €

  • 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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    157,44 €

  • Flowers of Time
    Mark Payne
    An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genresThe literary lineage of postapocalyptic fiction-stories set after civilization’s destruction-is a long one, spanning the biblical tale of Noah and Hesiod’s Works and Days to the works of Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Cormac McCarthy, and many othe...
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    37,89 €

  • Flowers of Time
    Mark Payne
    An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genresThe literary lineage of postapocalyptic fiction-stories set after civilization’s destruction-is a long one, spanning the biblical tale of Noah and Hesiod’s Works and Days to the works of Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Cormac McCarthy, and many othe...
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    163,86 €

  • Wonder Women and Bad Girls
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow. These four characters portray very different versions of women: the superheroine, the abuse victim, the fourth wave princess, and the spy, respectively. In this in-depth analysis of female characters in superhero media, the author begins by identifying ten eras of superhero media defined by the way they portray women. Foll...
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    57,40 €

  • The American Weird
    Hitherto classified as a form of genre fiction, or as a particular aesthetic quality of literature by H. P. Lovecraft, the weird has now come to refer to a broad spectrum of artistic practices and expressions including fiction, film, television, photography, music, and visual and performance art. Largely under-theorized so far, The American Weird brings together perspectives fr...
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    160,71 €

  • Jean-François Vilar
    Margaret Atack
    In this first full-length study of his work, Margaret Atack surveys not only Vilar’s novels but also his shorter fiction, journalism, photobooks, and contributions to art and exhibition catalogues. From the ludic, if entirely serious, assassinations of political art in his first prize-winning novel C’est toujours les autres qui meurent, to the devastating unreality of massacre ...
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    133,17 €

  • The Poetics of Early Russian Crime Fiction 1860-1917
    Claire Whitehead
    Crime fiction enjoys almost unparalleled success in post-Soviet Russia; but what do we know about its origins and development in the nineteenth century? Claire Whitehead’s ground-breaking and in-depth study rescues early Russian crime fiction from obscurity and undertakes a detailed examination of how the genre harnesses various storytelling techniques to create its striking ef...
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    20,85 €

  • Mary Shelley and Europe
    Antonella Braida
    Mary Shelley in Europe studies the European background of Mary Shelley’s works and their reception. This two-fold approach is inspired by Mary Shelley dans son œuvre, Jean de Palacio’s seminal work that has remained untranslated in English. The essays in the volume bring new insights on editing and establishing the canon of Mary Shelley’s works; they investigate her interest in...
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    132,98 €

  • Adapting the Canon
    Adapting the Canon brings together some of the most recent and exciting research in the growing field of adaptation studies, charting the passage of canonical texts across time, cultures and different media. Spanning several Humanities disciplines, the essays in this volume explore key questions about what adaptation means for the canonical work, focusing on texts adapted to an...
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    132,67 €

  • Caitlin R. Kiernan
    James Goho
    Caitlin R. Kiernan is at the forefront of contemporary gothic, weird and science fiction literature. She has written more than a dozen novels, over 250 short stories, many chapbooks, along with a large number of graphic works. For these Kiernan has won numerous awards. This first full-length look at Kiernan’s body of work explores her fictional universe through critical lite...
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    40,65 €

  • Toys in the Age of Wonder
    Mark Rich
    By the middle 1800s, toys were appearing in forms that drew upon--and that inspired--advances in areas such as optics, biology, geography, transportation, and automation. In these decades, too, a new type of wonder tale was being brought to maturity by a Poe-inspired Jules Verne. The modern wonder tale’s highly-charged vision expressed the hopes and the fears, and the deligh...
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    73,55 €

  • Jeremy Brett - Playing A Part
    Maureen Whittaker
    “Holmes could be rude, impatient, abrupt, and his intolerance of fools was legendary. I tried to show all this, all of the man’s incredible brilliance. But there are some cracks in Holmes’s marble, as in an almost-perfect Rodin statue. And I tried to show that, too. It’s difficult for me to say what I may have given to the image of Holmes. Faithful to Conan Doyle’s text, certai...
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    127,20 €

  • The Numismatic Edgar Allan Poe
    Greg Ruby
    A hardbound catalog, with color photos, of coins, medals and other related numismatic items featuring Edgar Allan Poe and several of his literary themes. Including a price guide, detailed descriptions are provided of the items along with other works that combine numismatics with Edgar Allan Poe. ...
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    59,98 €

  • Life’s Winners and a Few Losers
    Ray Keipert
    When cast into difficult and sometimes threatening circumstances, or unexpected challenges, we all have a choice. We either sink or swim. Those who succeed are the ones who rise to the occasion, drawing on inner spiritual strength to respond to the challenge or pursue their personal dreams.Whatever the reason for their internal drive, many persevere, refusing to be swamped by e...
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    14,31 €

  • Lovecraft Annual No. 14 (2020)
    STJoshi
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    16,14 €

  • Terry Pratchett’s Ethical Worlds
    Terry Pratchett’s writing celebrates the possibilities opened up by inventiveness and imagination. It constructs an ethical stance that values informed and self-aware choices, knowledge of the world in which one makes those choices, the importance of play and humor in crafting a compassionate worldview, and acts of continuous self-examination and creation. This collection ...
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    57,75 €

  • Haunted Property
    Sarah Gilbreath Ford
    At the heart of America's slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such a...
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    158,32 €

  • Haunted Property
    Sarah Gilbreath Ford
    At the heart of America's slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such a...
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    50,16 €

  • Middle-earth, or There and Back Again
    Lukasz Neubauer
    The world of Tolkien’s imagination is a virtually boundless universe, one in which multiple layers of cultural heritage revolve around his enduring passion for storytelling, fascination with languages and devotion to the Catholic faith. In effect, much of his fiction is an eclectic, though, at the same time, remarkably coherent, mixture in which certain elements of the old lore...
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    24,72 €

  • Victorian literary culture and ancient Egypt
    Eleanor Dobson
    This is the first academic study to address ancient Egypt as it was appropriated across disparate literary modes during the Victorian era. Drawing on texts by canonical authors while illuminating new sources and understudied works, it brings the highbrow and the popular into conversation, addressing contemporary ideas of race, gender and religion. ...
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    157,56 €

  • Futures of the Past
    Ivy Roberts
    Science fiction boasts a deceptively long history, extending as far back as the 19th century. This anthology pairs original essays that introduce short stories of vintage science fiction. Critical introductions written by international experts contextualize these stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Inclusions range from legendary authors like Mary Shelley and Edg...
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    57,56 €

  • Romantic Vacancy
    Kate Singer
    Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature. ...
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    41,80 €

  • The Impulse of Fantasy Literature
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    This book grew out of the author’s wish to go beyond a formal definition of fantasy to discover a basic urge and interest common to the genre. He finds this urge to be the celebration of identity. Fantasy is ultimately concerned to heighten and praise being, whether that being is God’s creation, the world, or the creations of the fantasy writer themselves. This interest can tak...
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    38,38 €

  • The Impulse of Fantasy Literature
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    This book grew out of the author’s wish to go beyond a formal definition of fantasy to discover a basic urge and interest common to the genre. He finds this urge to be the celebration of identity. Fantasy is ultimately concerned to heighten and praise being, whether that being is God’s creation, the world, or the creations of the fantasy writer themselves. This interest can tak...
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    21,29 €

  • Ian Rankin
    Erin E. MacDonald
    Ian Rankin is considered by many to be Scotland’s greatest living crime fiction author. Most well known for his Inspector Rebus series--which has earned critical acclaim as well as scores of fans worldwide--Rankin is a prolific author whose other works include spy thrillers, nonfiction books and articles, short stories, novels, graphic novels, audio recordings, television/fi...
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    88,52 €


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