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

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  • Gothic incest
    Jenny DiPlacidi / TBD
    Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764-1847. ...
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    36,63 €

  • Italian Crime Fiction in the Era of the Anti-Mafia Movement
    William Farina
    Over the last three decades, Italian crime fiction has demonstrated a trend toward a much higher level of realism and complexity. The origins of the New Italian Epic, as it has been coined by some of its proponents, can be found in the widespread backlash against the Mafia-sponsored murders of Sicilian magistrates which culminated with the assassinations of Judges Giovanni F...
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    94,01 €

  • Clark Ashton Smith
    David E. Schultz / David ESchultz / S. T. Joshi / Scott Connors / STJoshi
    In 1978, Donald Sidney-Fryer published the first full-scale bibliography of Clark Ashton Smith, Emperor of Dreams. In the more than forty years since that book’s appearance, the publication and study of Smith’s work have increased exponentially, and a new, more exhaustive bibliography is long overdue. The three compilers of this volume, all leading authorities on Smith, have no...
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    31,86 €

  • Essays in Petto
    Montague Summers
    'Essays in Petto' is a collection of essays by English writer Montague Summers, first published in 1928. Within them, Summers explores the subject of Gothic literature, looking in particular at the work of notable writers including Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Byron, and others. A detailed examination of Gothic romance by a master of the supernatural. Contents include: 'Ann Radc...
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    22,31 €

  • The Steampunk Handbook
    Phoebe Darqueling
    Author and lecturer Phoebe Darqueling has compiled and updated her best articles from The Steampunk Journal and beyond to surprise, inform, and delight Steampunk and Gaslamp Fantasy fans old and new. Within these pages, you'll find a stroll through the first 30 years of the Steampunk genre, background information about the technological and cultural underpinnings that inspi...
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    11,84 €

  • True Crime Parallels to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie
    Anne Powers
    Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most celebrated crime fiction of our era. This book takes ten of her most famous works and shows their relationship to ten of crime history’s most famous and sensational cases--cases whose notoriety still resounds to this day. Addressing both novels and short stories, the author i...
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    72,14 €

  • Schabraco and other Gothic Tales from the Ladies’ Monthly Museum, 1798-1828
    Jennie MacDonald
    In 1798, a prospectus appeared for The Lady’s Monthly Museum, a bold new project which – in contrast to the predominance of men’s magazines at the time – would be edited by a “Society of Ladies” and would include wholesome entertainment exclusively intended for young women. But with the inclusion of the Gothic tale “Schabraco” in its second issue, the magazine attracted immedia...
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    42,90 €

  • Horrid Mysteries - A Story from the German of the Marquis of Grosse
    Carl Grosse / Peter Will
    Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that usually combines fiction with horror, romance, and death. The genre’s origin is attributed to the novel, 'The Castle of Otranto', which was written by English author Horace Walpole and first published in 1764. 'The Horrid Mysteries' is the English translation by Peter Will of the German Gothic novel 'Der Genius by Carl Grosse'. It wa...
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    23,29 €

  • Study Guide to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, one of the most famous novels of Victorian literature. As Emily Brontës sole work, Wuthering Heights unveils the harsh reality behind a toxic and abusive relationship, in which the complex characters are unpredictable. Moreover, Brontë’s lyrical and mystic novel...
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    8,44 €

  • Study Guide to Moby Dick by Herman Melville
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, deemed by author Raymond Weaver as 'indisputably the greatest whaling novel.' As an 1851 tragic epic, Moby Dick tells the story of a captain’s expedition to track down and seek revenge on a whale from the point of view of one of the sailors. Moreover, Melville uses a...
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    8,38 €

  • Study Guide to Utopia by Thomas More
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Thomas More’s Utopia, originally written in Latin in 1516 and considered a great political and philosophical satire. As a rhetorical work from the early 16th century, there has been much debate amongst scholars on what More’s intentions were for writing. Moreover, Utopia makes a mirror so that r...
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    6,80 €

  • Study Guide to The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for JRR Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of one of the most well-known series in the world-Lord of the Rings Trilogy. As an epic novel of the mid twentieth century, Tolkien used elements of Nordic folk, Christianity, and realism to create the Middle-earth world. Moreover, The Lord of ...
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    8,58 €

  • Study Guide to The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, a book that pioneered the feminist science fiction movement. As a science-fiction, fantasy novel of the mid to late 1900s, The Left Hand of Darkness explores androgyny, tragedy, and love. Moreover, Le Guin’s writing shows that in fantasy, journeys into...
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    8,46 €

  • Study Guide to Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, an immediate popular success when it was published as Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World in 1726. As a novel of eighteenth century Britain, Gulliver’s Travels was a satire on human nature and a parody of the ''''travellers’ tales'''' literary s...
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    12,81 €

  • Agency in The Hunger Games
    Kayla Ann
    For 21st-century young adults struggling for personal autonomy in a society that often demands compliance, the bestselling trilogy, The Hunger Games remains palpably relevant despite its futuristic setting. For Suzanne Collins’ characters, personal agency involves not only the physical battle of controlling one’s body but also one’s response to such influences as morality, t...
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    57,52 €

  • Stories of Shape-Shifting
    Robert E Howard
    Compiled and introduced by Mythologist and lycanthropy specialist Wulfric Thorsson, this book collects all the works by famed pulp writer Robert E. Howard concerning the themes of physical transformation and metamorphosis. Werewolves are here, and werehyenas and other beastmen, as well as startling depictions of arcane changes and unnatural hybrids.The stories are superbly ente...
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    14,06 €

  • A Gothic Bibliography
    Montague Summers
    First published in 1940, 'A Gothic Bibliography' contains an extensive list of some of the most notable Gothic novels compiled by Montague Summers. Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that usually combines fiction with horror, romance, and death. The genre’s origin is attributed to the novel, 'The Castle of Otranto', which was written by English author Horace Walpole and fi...
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    37,69 €

  • The Big Somewhere
    Steven Powell
    James Ellroy’s identity as a crime writer is rooted in his extraordinary life story and relationship with his home city of Los Angeles. Beginning with the unsolved murder of his mother, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, in 1958, Ellroy’s early life played a large role in shaping his obsessions with murder, the criminal underworld of L.A. and the redemptive power of the feminine. Ellroy’s...
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    55,11 €

  • Imagining the Unimaginable
    Glyn Morgan
    Imagining the Unimaginable examines popular fiction’s treatment of the Holocaust in the dystopian and alternate history genres of speculative fiction, analyzing the effectiveness of the genre’s major works as a lens through which to view the most prominent historical trauma of the 20th century. It surveys a range of British and American authors, from science fiction pulp to Pul...
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    160,95 €

  • Secondary Superheroes of Golden Age Comics
    Lou Mougin
     When Superman debuted in 1938, he ushered in a string of imitators--Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Captain America. But what about the many less well-known heroes who lined up to fight crooks, super villains or Hitler--like the Shield, the Black Terror, Crimebuster, Cat-Man, Dynamic Man, the Blue Beetle, the Black Cat and even Frankenstein? These and other four-col...
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    110,49 €

  • Argentina Noir
    Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz
    An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000. ...
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    41,51 €

  • Welcome to Arkham Asylum
    Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more. The Arkham franchise, supposedly light-weight entertainment, has tackled weighty issues in contemporary psychiatry. Its plotlines reference clinical and ethical controversies that perpl...
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    73,43 €

  • The Binge Watcher's Guide Dr. Who A History of Dr. Who and the First Female Doctor
    Mackenzie Flohr
    Mackenzie Flohr believes in order to call yourself a true Whovian, you must follow the Doctor's message. The Binge Watcher's Guide to Doctor Who will take you on a journey through time and space, showing you how Doctor Who became the longest running show on television by weaving through its history, starting with our current incarnation of the Doctor, played by Jodie Wh...
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    16,98 €

  • A Cello for Bihar
    Rakesh Chopra
    The year was 1950. Khem Rao was just another child born in a remote farming village in Bihar. His life’s script was expected to be no different to anyone else born under the same circumstances. However, destiny had other plans.This book charts the course of his extraordinary life and his prodigious music talent. This is a story of hardship. Of trial and tribulations. Of the han...
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    15,56 €

  • The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel Critical Temporalities and the End Times
    Diletta De Cristofaro
    Traditional apocalyptic texts concern the advent of a better world at the end of history that will make sense of everything that happened before. But what is at stake in the contemporary shift to apocalyptic narratives in which the utopian end of time is removed? The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel offers an innovative critical model for our cultural obsession with ’the end...
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    174,10 €

  • Science Fiction and the Dismal Science
    Despite the growing importance of economics in our lives, literary scholars have long been reluctant to consider economic issues as they examine key texts. This volume seeks to fill one of these conspicuous gaps in the critical literature by focusing on various connections between science fiction and economics, with some attention to related fields such as politics and gover...
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    79,14 €

  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    Washington Irving
    The year is 1790. The Revolutionary War has settled, but the ghosts of combat remain.One particularly vengeful specter—a Hessian soldier whose head was most unfortunately removed by a cannonball—is rumored to haunt the borderland glen to Tarry Town known as Sleepy Hollow.Ichabod Crane—a mindfully superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut—finds himself in service to this tiny ...
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    16,32 €

  • Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Television is entering a unique era, in which women and minorities no longer serve under white captains but take the lead--and all the other roles as well. In a brilliant new universe where the intersectional values of fourth wave feminism are becoming more widespread, fantasy and science fiction are leading the charge. Shows from Star Wars to Doctor Who are rewriting their ...
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    57,50 €

  • Letters with Donald and Howard Wandrei and to Emil Petaja
    H. P. Lovecraft / HPLovecraft
    It is safe to say that Donald Wandrei (1908–1987) was one of Lovecraft’s leading correspondents. In 1924 Wandrei came in touch with his literary idol, Clark Ashton Smith, and two years later Smith referred him to Lovecraft. There began a rich, expansive communication in which both sides of the correspondence are preserved largely intact, allowing for an unprecedented glimpse in...
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    32,00 €

  • Dead Reckonings No. 26 (Fall 2019)
    Ramsey Campbell
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    8,06 €


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