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  • Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy
    Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children’s agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children’s spectacular dreams and hopeful realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belo...
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    149,69 €

  • 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 €

  • Ghostly Encounters
    This volume of critical essays meditates on the evidence and representation of the ghostlyin the visual, literary, and cultural imagination of Britain, Europe, America, and Asia fromthe nineteenth century to the contemporary. ...
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    241,34 €

  • Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film
    Kirk Combe
    Kirk Combe theorizes a new type of contemporary political satire: the Rant. Grim, imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres, the Rant targets the Regime-the dangerous social and economic orthodoxies of neoliberalism and neoconservatism. ...
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    268,24 €

  • The Fortean Influence on Science Fiction
    Tanner F. Boyle
    Charles Fort was an American researcher from the early twentieth century who cataloged reports of unexplained phenomena he found in newspapers and science journals. A minor bestseller with a cult appeal, Fort’s work was posthumously republished in the pulp science fiction magazine Astounding Stories in 1934. His idiosyncratic books fascinated, scared, and entertained readers...
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    64,99 €

  • Fables and Other Lies
    CLAIRE CONTRERAS
    Do you believe in curses?I never did.Not until that fated night, six years ago, when I sat in The Devil’s Chair and made a wish.Not until it came true.Not until I met River Caliban himself, heir to a fortune of curses. My fated sworn enemy.I knew I should have stayed away from him. I should have run the other way when he called out my name, when he flashed that sinful smile of ...
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    11,68 €

  • Buffy and the Art of Story Season Two Part 1
    L. M. Lilly / LMLilly
    How much fun can you have revisiting the TV series you loved?More than you ever imagined. And you’ll pick up a few things about storytelling, too.Bestselling author L. M. Lilly takes apart Episodes 1-11 of Season Two of Joss Whedon’s cult TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She examines key plot turns, character arcs, metaphors, and themes to figure out how Buffy created:Storie...
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    13,09 €

  • 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 €

  • Dragon Ball Z 'It’s Over 9,000!' Visioni del mondo in collisione
    Derek Padula
    Dragon Ball di Akira Toriyama è la serie anime e manga più conosciuta al mondo e ha appassionato milioni di fan da ogni parte del globo. La leggendaria rivalità degli ultimi due Saiyan dal sangue puro, Goku e Vegeta, è l’esempio per antonomasia di un eterno conflitto che ispira i fan a superare i propri limiti.Con le prefazioni di Ryō Horikawa e Gianluca Iacono, rispettivamente...
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    12,08 €

  • South of the Future
    Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.South Asia and Latin America represent two epicenters of migrant care work and the globalized reproductive market. Yet scholars and the media continue to examine them in geographical and conceptual isolation. South of the Future closes both these gaps. It investigates n...
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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 €

  • America Tenants
    Tianrong Zhang
    At the end of the 1990s, on both sides of the United States, several gangs associated with Taiwan and Japan launched a fierce tracking battle in secret to obtain two treasure maps of cultural relics. They used various methods of deception, solicitation, seduction, and murder. Some overseas students from mainland China, even some Chinese government officials, are involved. This ...
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    23,10 €

  • 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 €

  • Postcolonial Comics
    This volume examines new comic book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinée texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. Chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial condition in 21st century (con)texts. Authors demonstrate that the ...
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    73,26 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Ethical Detective
    Rachel Haliburton
    This book works within the neo-Aristotelian ethical framework to make the case that moral philosophers ought to see detective fiction as a source of ethical insight and as a tool to spark the moral imagination. It also critiques contemporary moral philosophy and proposes what autonomy might look like if understood in neo-Aristotelian terms. ...
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    54,28 €

  • Study Guide to the Old Testament
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for the Old Testament, the first and longest section of the Christian bible. As a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings, the Old Testament contains thirty-nine books, containing stories that span thousands of years. Moreover, the Old Testament gives readers a look into the history and the...
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    18,23 €

  • Study Guide to The Major Plays of George Bernard Shaw
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by George Bernard Shaw, who is second only to Shakespeare in the eyes of British tradition. Titles in this study guide include Arms and the Man, Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Candida, The Devil’s Disciple, The Man of Destiny, Misalli...
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    12,86 €

  • 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 €

  • Jardín de cactus
    Francisco Ruano
    “Buscar la palabra justa para crearle al lector un mundo paralelo al que habita, haciéndole enteramente protagonista de tu burbuja de letras”. Eso es lo que consigue encandilar a sus fieles seguidores. 10 ...
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    12,43 €

  • Telar de sangre
    Francisco Ruano
    “Buscar la palabra justa para crearle al lector un mundo paralelo al que habita, haciéndole enteramente protagonista de tu burbuja de letras”. Eso es lo que consigue encandilar a sus fieles seguidores. 10 ...
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    12,43 €


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