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  • Monstrous Imaginaries
    Maaheen Ahmed
    Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today's popular culture. Comics monsters, questioning the distinction between human and monster, self and other, are valuable conduits of Romantic inclinations.Engag...
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    158,08 €

  • Cuentos para quinceañeras
    James Fenimore Cooper
    James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) se considera el primer gran novelista norteamericano de fama internacional gracias a sus historias de aventuras, en especial El último de los mohicanos. Antes de consolidarse como tal, sin embargo, probó suerte con la narrativa breve y acometió la redacción de algunos relatos de índole sentimental e intimista, de los que solo acabó dos: «Imagin...
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    12,50 €

  • The Tragic Thread in Science Fiction
    Robert H. Waugh
    For decades, Robert H. Waugh has been a scintillating critic of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. A leading analyst of H. P. Lovecraft, Waugh now brings his critical talents to the assessment of an array of fantasy and science fiction writers, past and present. In a trilogy of essays, Waugh studies David Lindsay’s pioneering novel A Voyage to Arcturus (1920), probing its re...
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    20,16 €

  • Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes
    Neil McCaw
    Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries that contain detailed examinations of the themes and features of the 60 stories that make up the Sherlock Holmes canon. ...
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    135,19 €

  • Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination
    Kristen Lillvis
    Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, filmmakers, and musicians, including Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Julie Dash, and Janelle Monáe. In this innovative study, Kristen Lillvis supplements historically situated conceptions of blackness with imaginative proje...
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    28,20 €

  • Providence After Dark and Other Writings
    T.E.D. Klein
    Best known as a writer of supernatural horror, T.E.D. Klein, author of The Ceremonies and Dark Gods, has also written essays, articles, op-ed pieces, and reviews that are provocative, erudite, occasionally splenetic, and always highly opinionated. This book, compiled by S. T. Joshi, presents a wide selection of Klein’s nonfiction, including:  • A lively account of the first Wo...
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    31,82 €

  • Gothic Remixed Monster Mashups and Frankenfictions in 21st-Century Culture
    Megen de Bruin-Molé
    The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters. Too engaged with tradition for some and not traditional enough for others, these ’monster mashups’ are often criticized as a sign of the artistic and moral degeneration of contemporary culture. These hybrid c...
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    173,76 €

  • Superheroes and Masculinity
    Superheroes and Masculinity examines how heteropatriarchal representations of gender are both perpetuated and challenged within the superhero genre. This collection critiques stereotypical portrayals of hegemonic masculinity and explores queer alternatives to such formulations within superhero comics, film, and television. ...
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    122,57 €

  • Gothic for Girls
    Julia Round
    Today fans still remember and love the British girls' comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities. Yet its unique history has drawn little critical attention. Bridging this scholarly gap, Julia Round presents a comprehensive cultural history and detailed discussion of the comic, preserving both the inception and development of this important publication as w...
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    52,36 €

  • Gothic for Girls
    Julia Round
    Today fans still remember and love the British girls' comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities. Yet its unique history has drawn little critical attention. Bridging this scholarly gap, Julia Round presents a comprehensive cultural history and detailed discussion of the comic, preserving both the inception and development of this important publication as w...
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    160,52 €

  • The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s
    Gary Westfahl
     By examining important aspects of science fiction in the twentieth century, this book explains how the genre evolved to its current state. Close critical attention is given to topics including the art that has accompanied science fiction, the subgenres of space opera and hard science fiction, the rise of SF anthologies, and the burgeoning impact of the marketplace on author...
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    64,49 €

  • Lab Lit
    This book introduces and explores a new genre, lab lit. Essays both discuss lab lit novels using a variety of analytical approaches as well as provide a theoretical framework to explore the social and literary backgrounds of the genre. ...
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    128,99 €

  • The Theology of George MacDonald
    John R. de Jong / John Rde Jong
    George MacDonald (1824-1905) was writing at a time of Evangelical unease. In a society ravaged by Asiatic cholera, numbed by levels of infant mortality, and fearful of revolution and the toxicity of industry (to name but a few of the many challenges), the "gospel" proclaiming eternal damnation for unbelievers was hardly good news; rather, Christianity was increasingly viewed as...
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    32,83 €

  • The Theology of George MacDonald
    John R. de Jong / John Rde Jong
    George MacDonald (1824-1905) was writing at a time of Evangelical unease. In a society ravaged by Asiatic cholera, numbed by levels of infant mortality, and fearful of revolution and the toxicity of industry (to name but a few of the many challenges), the ""gospel"" proclaiming eternal damnation for unbelievers was hardly good news; rather, Christianity was increasingly viewed ...
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    49,00 €

  • Sinister histories
    Jonathan Dent
    Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history. ...
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    36,76 €

  • Transfusion
    Ann Louise Kibbie
    'England may with justice claim to be the native land of transfusion,' wrote one European physician in 1877, acknowledging Great Britain's crucial role in developing and promoting human-to-human transfusion as treatment for life-threatening blood loss. As news of this revolutionary medical technique spread from professional publications to popular journals and newspapers, t...
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    87,42 €

  • Transfusion
    Ann Louise Kibbie
    'England may with justice claim to be the native land of transfusion,' wrote one European physician in 1877, acknowledging Great Britain's crucial role in developing and promoting human-to-human transfusion as treatment for life-threatening blood loss. As news of this revolutionary medical technique spread from professional publications to popular journals and newspapers, t...
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    43,82 €

  • Before Einstein
    Elizabeth L Throesch / Elizabeth L. Throesch
    Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. ’Before Einstein’ offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth ce...
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    57,54 €

  • Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives
    Paul Green
    The detective genre has explored supernatural and paranormal themes throughout its colorful history. Stories of detectives investigating spiritualists, ghostly apparitions, the occult and psychics have spanned pulp fiction magazines, comic books, novels, film, television, animation and video games. This encyclopedia covers the history of the genre in its multiple forms and...
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    58,49 €

  • Music in Tolkien’s Work and Beyond
    “I love music” (J.R.R. Tolkien)Music plays a crucial role in Tolkien’s mythology, and his tales contain many songs as well as mentions of musicians and instruments.The present book edited by Julian Eilmann and Friedhelm Schneidewind is the successor to the well-received 2010 volume Music in Middle-earth, No. 20 of the Cormarë Series, which drew the attention of Tolkien scholars...
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    39,48 €

  • Order and the Other
    Joseph W Campbell
    In the mid- to late 2000s, the United States witnessed a boom in dystopian novels and films intended for young audiences. At that time, many literary critics, journalists, and educators grouped dystopian literature together with science fiction, leading to possible misunderstandings of the unique history, aspects, and functions of science fiction and dystopian genres.Though tex...
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    158,51 €

  • Order and the Other
    Joseph W Campbell
    In the mid- to late 2000s, the United States witnessed a boom in dystopian novels and films intended for young audiences. At that time, many literary critics, journalists, and educators grouped dystopian literature together with science fiction, leading to possible misunderstandings of the unique history, aspects, and functions of science fiction and dystopian genres.Though tex...
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    50,35 €

  • Journey to the Imaginal Realm
    Becca Tarnas
    This reader’s guide to J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings offers a journey into the world of Middle-earth, exploring the grand themes and hidden nuances of Tolkien’s epic story, connecting The Lord of the Rings to the larger mythology of Middle-earth, and situating Tolkien’s process of writing within his own powerful experiences of the imaginal realm. The Lord of the Ring...
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    20,88 €

  • 'Something Has Gone Crack'
    "Something has gone crack," Tolkien wrote about the first death among his tight-knit fellowship of friends in 1916, and the impact of the war haunted his writing for the rest of his life. In Tolkien’s body of work, the Great War serves as a source of imagery, motifs, and examples of military operations and strategy; of central themes about conflict, comradeship, duty, and the d...
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    36,18 €

  • Counterfactual Romanticism
    Damian Walford Davies
    Extends counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory ...
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    160,07 €

  • Gothic Afterlives
    Piatti-Farnell
    Gothic Afterlives examines the intersections between contemporary Gothic horror and remakes scholarship from various disciplinary perspectives. The essays in the collection cover a wide range of transmedia examples, including literature, film, television, video games, and digital media reimaginings. ...
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    129,11 €

  • America’s Changing Icons
    Annessa Ann Babic / Holly Blackford
    America’s Changing Icons examines nationalism and gendered national roles via the lens of popular culture, to explore the discursive and at times chaotic ways American society interprets itself. This multi layered examination delves into the iconography and role of American women, and their evolution, from World War I to the present. ...
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    54,31 €

  • Exploring Dark Short Fiction #4
    Jeffrey Ford / Michael Arnzen
    Author of the fantastic and the bizarre, Jeffrey Ford’s work has won awards and acclaim across the globe for his stories of humor, horror, and unconventional beauty. “Powerful and disturbing in the best possible way” (Gawker) and “Intensely engaging” (Publishers Weekly), Ford crosses speculative genres with literary ideals, which has earned him the World Fantasy Award (seven ti...
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    18,82 €

  • Exploring Dark Short Fiction #4
    Jeffrey Ford / Michael Arnzen
    Author of the fantastic and the bizarre, Jeffrey Ford’s work has won awards and acclaim across the globe for his stories of humor, horror, and unconventional beauty. “Powerful and disturbing in the best possible way” (Gawker) and “Intensely engaging” (Publishers Weekly), Ford crosses speculative genres with literary ideals, which has earned him the World Fantasy Award (seven ti...
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    11,73 €

  • George MacDonald’s Children’s Fantasies and the Divine Imagination
    Colin Manlove / Colin N. Manlove
    The great Victorian Christian author George MacDonald is the wellspring of the modern fantasy genre. In this book Colin Manlove offers explorations of MacDonald’s eight shorter fairy tales and his longer stories At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin, The Wise Woman, and The Princess and Curdie. MacDonald saw the imagination as the source of fairy tales and ...
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    19,74 €


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