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  • Echoes of Truth
    Michael C. Haldas / Michael CHaldas
    In addition to being a professor, master of language and myth, and a loving husband and father, J.R.R. Tolkien was a devout Christian. He saw the Gospel of Christianity as myth come true within human history and all great stories in the world as reflecting elements of this truth. His love of these, and his Christian faith, flowed into his work, mingling to create a great work o...
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    22,27 €

  • Echoes of Truth
    Michael C. Haldas / Michael CHaldas
    Echoes of Truth: Christianity in The Lord of the Rings - Illustrated EditionIn addition to being a professor, master of language and myth, and a loving husband and father, J.R.R. Tolkien was a devout Christian. He saw the Gospel of Christianity as myth come true within human history and all great stories in the world as reflecting elements of this truth. His love of these, and ...
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    22,84 €

  • Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell
    Contributions by Kylie Cardell, Aaron Cometbus, Margaret Galvan, Sarah Hildebrand, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Tahneer Oksman, Seamus O'Malley, Annie Mok, Dan Nadel, Natalie Pendergast, Sarah Richardson, Jessica Stark, and James YehIn a self-reflexive way, Julie Doucet's and Gabrielle Bell's comics, though often autobiographical, defy easy categorization. In this volume,...
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    158,11 €

  • Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell
    Contributions by Kylie Cardell, Aaron Cometbus, Margaret Galvan, Sarah Hildebrand, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Tahneer Oksman, Seamus O'Malley, Annie Mok, Dan Nadel, Natalie Pendergast, Sarah Richardson, Jessica Stark, and James YehIn a self-reflexive way, Julie Doucet's and Gabrielle Bell's comics, though often autobiographical, defy easy categorization. In this volume,...
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    49,95 €

  • Pulp According to David Goodis
    Jay A. Gertzman
    Pulp According to David Goodis starts with six characteristics of 1950s pulp noir that fascinated mass-market readers, making them wish they were the protagonist, and yet feel relief that they were not. His thrillers are set in motion by suppressed guilt, sexual frustrations, explosions of violence, and the inaccessible nature of intimacy. Extremely valuable is a gangster-infes...
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    15,92 €

  • The Archive Incarnate
    Joseph Hurtgen
    We live in an information economy, a vast archive of data ever at our fingertips. In the pages of science fiction, powerful entities--governments and corporations--attempt to use this archive to control society, enforce conformity or turn citizens into passive consumers. Opposing them are protagonists fighting to liberate the collective mind from those who would enforce top-...
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    79,51 €

  • Panel to the Screen
    Drew Morton
    Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted components of their source materials' visual style. The screen has been fractured into panels, the photographic has given way to the graphic, and the steady rhythm of cinematic time has...
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    50,18 €

  • Pratchett’s Women
    Tansy Rayner Roberts
    From Granny Weatherwax to Susan Death and beyond...Terry Pratchett's Discworld is an epic, groundbreaking work of fantasy often hailed for its originality, humour and deep, layered intelligence. But what about the women?Award-winning author & pop culture critic Tansy Rayner Roberts looks at the portrayal of female characters in many of Pratchett's best loved books, from...
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    9,74 €

  • Fantasy Literature and Christianity
    Weronika Łaszkiewicz
    The debate surrounding the Christian aspects of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter has revealed not only the prominence of religious themes in fantasy fiction, but also readers’ concerns over portrayals of religion in fantasy. Yet while analyses of these works fill...
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    57,48 €

  • The Gothic Romance Wave
    Lori A. Paige
    The late 1960s and early 1970s saw the birth of modern feminism, the sexual revolution, and strong growth in the mass-market publishing industry. Women made up a large part of the book market, and Gothic fiction became a higher popular staple. Victoria Holt, Mary Stewart and Phyllis Whitney emerged as prominent authors, while the standardized paperback Gothic sold in the mil...
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    64,98 €

  • Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction
    Kristin Ramsdell
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    136,21 €

  • Video Gaming in Science Fiction
    Jason Barr
    As video gaming and gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work. This study examines how media-fueled paranoia about video gaming--first emerging almost fifty years ago--still resonates in modern science fiction. The author reveals how negative stereotypes of gamers and gaming have endured i...
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    57,58 €

  • ANTHOLOGY Short Stories I
    New Authors – New WritingA skyful of stars, an architect’s dream house, vengeance and betrayal, immaculate love.Just a few of the motifs our SSOA writers use in weaving their spirited stories. ...
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    28,26 €

  • Educating through Popular Culture
    Edward Janak
    Educating through Popular Culture is a tool for educators at all levels to improve their practice via popular culture in ways that both embrace and resist contemporary thinking. Its chapters provide a range of theoretical and practical suggestions to elicit discussion and spark creativity in all students. ...
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    58,03 €

  • The Association
    Sharon Ann Ziegler
    NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2019 FINALIST IN THE LEGAL THRILLER CATEGORY!A YOUNG FEMALE ATTORNEY TAKES ON A POWERFUL HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION AND UNCOVERS FRAUD, MYSTERY, AND MURDER!Champaign, Georgia, Davis County: A young attorney and her husband have relocated to the small, idyllic town for his new job, and she’s on an extended hiatus after becoming exhausted and weary of...
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    32,41 €

  • Adapting Frankenstein
    This edited collection explores the afterlife of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in theatre and film, radio, literature and graphics novels, making a substantial contribution to the field of adaptation studies. ...
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    156,85 €

  • Alison Bechdel
    Rachel R Martin
    Due to the huge success of her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in 2006 and its subsequent Tony Award-winning musical adaptation in 2009, Alison Bechdel (b. 1960) has recently become a household name. However, Bechdel, who has won numerous awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, has been writing and drawing comics since the early 1980s. Her comic strip Dykes to Wat...
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    158,65 €

  • Alison Bechdel
    Rachel R Martin
    Due to the huge success of her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in 2006 and its subsequent Tony Award-winning musical adaptation in 2009, Alison Bechdel (b. 1960) has recently become a household name. However, Bechdel, who has won numerous awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, has been writing and drawing comics since the early 1980s. Her comic strip Dykes to Wat...
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    43,19 €

  • Comics and Sacred Texts
    Contributions by Ofra Amihay, Madeline Backus, Samantha Baskind, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Scott S. Elliott, Assaf Gamzou, Susan Handelman, Leah Hochman, Leonard V. Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Shiamin Kwa, Samantha Langsdale, A. David Lewis, Karline McLain, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Joshua Plencner, and Jeffrey L. RicheyComics and Sacred Texts explores how comics and notions of the sacred i...
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    158,00 €

  • Comics and Sacred Texts
    Contributions by Ofra Amihay, Madeline Backus, Samantha Baskind, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Scott S. Elliott, Assaf Gamzou, Susan Handelman, Leah Hochman, Leonard V. Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Shiamin Kwa, Samantha Langsdale, A. David Lewis, Karline McLain, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Joshua Plencner, and Jeffrey L. RicheyComics and Sacred Texts explores how comics and notions of the sacred i...
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    49,85 €

  • 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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    132,64 €

  • Crime Fiction from a Professional Eye
    Lili Pâquet
    There is a new category of authors blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction: women who work or have worked in criminal justice--lawyers, police officers and forensic investigators--who publish crime fiction with characters that resemble real-life counterparts. Drawing on their professional experience, these writers present compelling portrayals of inequality and dysf...
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    72,12 €

  • Island Genres, Genre Islands
    Lisa Fletcher / Ralph Crane
    The first book length study of the conceptualization and representation of islands in popular fiction. ...
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    47,50 €

  • Clive Barker
    Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
    A necessary and timely study of Barker’s influence in dark fantasy, gothic and horror studies. The book features twelve groundbreaking essays on Barker’s creative legacy and influence, and reevaluates his celebrated and lesser known works in fiction, film and visual art, from the Books of Blood (1984-85) to The Scarlet Gospels (2015). ...
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    31,95 €

  • Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and Other Observations about Science Fiction Movies
    Daniel M. Kimmel / Daniel MKimmel
    As the title Jar Jar Binks Must Die indicates, Daniel M. Kimmel is not only a film critic with strong opinions, he's also a fan. In this collection of essays, he covers movies from Metropolis (1927), answering the absurd claim that the restoration of this silent classic negated its status as a science fiction film, to how Star Trek, Avatar, Moon, and District 9 may have mad...
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    21,33 €

  • The Final LInk
    Erin Thornton
    IS THERE ANYTHING STRANGER, THEN A GRANDMOTHER WHO DECORATES THE WALLS IN DOORKNOBS?If those doorknobs are really a gateway of doors that lead to other realms...then maybe. For centuries the Wasley women have guarded the gateway, and for those years the Guardians have been incomplete. When Aggie’s grandmother passed, the last things she expected was to be asked to join with eig...
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    34,06 €

  • The Final Link
    Erin Thornton
    IS THERE ANYTHING STRANGER, THEN A GRANDMOTHER WHO DECORATES THE WALLS IN DOORKNOBS? If those doorknobs are really a gateway of doors that lead to other realms...then maybe. For centuries the Wasley women have guarded the gateway, and for those years the Guardians have been incomplete. When Aggie’s grandmother passed, the last things she expected was to be asked to join with ei...
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    22,24 €

  • Lovecraft Annual No. 12 (2018)
    S. T. Joshi
    Table of ContentsThe Melancholia of H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Music of Erich Zann”James GohoFeminine Powerlessness and Deference in The Case of Charles Dexter WardCecelia Hopkins-DrewerRavening for Delight: Unusual Descriptions in LovecraftDuncan NorrisWhere Lovecraft Lost His Telescope: His Kingston and the Towns around ItRobert H. WaughWhy Michel Houellebecq Is Wrong about Lovec...
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    16,41 €

  • Religion and Technology into the Future
    Sam Gill
    This book examines the broad significance of the current trends in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of the human imagination of making sentient beings. It seeks to enrich our understanding of the present as it is trending into the future against the richly relevant and surprisingly long past. ...
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    142,67 €

  • Superhero Reader
    Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture.While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development...
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    49,75 €


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