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  • Poetry and Song in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien
    Anna Milon
    Poetry and Song in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien: proceedings of the Tolkien Society Seminar 2017.J.R.R. Tolkien regarded himself ‘chiefly as a poet’ (Carpenter, The Inklings, p. 29) and the importance of poetic diction and its most potent form, song, provides a powerful leitmotif to his mythological universe. Following the publication of Tolkien’s two verse works: The Lay of Atr...
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    18,93 €

  • Re-forming World Literature. Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story
    The ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume argue that global paradigms of World Literature, often referencing the major metropolitan centres of cultural and literary production, do not always accommodate voices from the margins and writing within minority genres such as the short story. Katherine Mansfield is a supreme example of a writer who is positioned between a num...
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    43,97 €

  • The Women of Orphan Black
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany plays a host of the show’s main characters, all clones of an illegal experiment. The mighty heroines save one another and destroy the patriarchy while subverting gender expectations. The feminist clones are Sarah, who clashes with her radical feminist foster-mother; Alison, the quintessential post-feminist housewife; Cosima, a second-wave fem...
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    57,44 €

  • Dragon Ball Culture Volume 6
    Derek Padula
    Goku Meets God!In Dragon Ball Culture Volume 6 our hero Goku ascends to heaven, trains with God, and battles the reincarnated Demon King!Discover the amazing truth behind your favorite characters, with surprising mysteries and reveals, as we conclude our cultural tour of the original Dragon Ball manga. When Goku reaches heaven he is greeted by a strange-looking man named Misuta...
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    21,62 €

  • The Complete Scribes of Speculative Fiction (hardback)
    Cristopher DeRose
    The Complete Scribes of Speculative Fiction:A Collection of InterviewsIn this combined and updated omnibus edition of Scribes of Speculative Fiction I and II, Cristopher DeRose sits down with over seventy of the best known names in the world of Speculative Fiction writing and gets the real story. Within these pages, you'll find advice, hints, history, and more than a few su...
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    42,45 €

  • Girls on Fire
    Sarah Hentges
    Under the threat of climate change, corruption, inequality and injustice, Americans may feel they are living in a dystopian novel come to life. Like many American narratives, dystopian stories often focus on males as the agents of social change. With a focus on the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality and power, the author analyzes the themes, issues and charact...
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    42,59 €

  • 100 Greatest Literary Detectives
    Eric Sandberg
    This book identifies the most noteworthy sleuths from around the world, outlining the distinctive features of the detective, his or her approach to crime solving, and highlights of their fictional careers. A case is made for each detective’s greatness based on literary importance, novelty, uniqueness, aesthetic quality, and cultural resonance. ...
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    63,07 €

  • William Blake’s Gothic imagination
    While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake’s literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary. ...
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    169,37 €

  • El amo
    Victoria Lébedeva
    El amo nunca le pareció débil ni indefenso, por el contrario,era para ella algo así como un caprichoso dios de la antigüedad, díscolo y peligros. 10 ...
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    12,48 €

  • Stranger America
    Josh Toth
    Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America's democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the foreign or intrusive 'other' persist today. In Stranger America, Josh Toth tracks and delineates these anxieties ...
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    107,46 €

  • Stranger America
    Josh Toth
    Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America's democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twentieth-century anxieties about individualism, race, and the foreign or intrusive 'other' persist today. In Stranger America, Josh Toth tracks and delineates these anxieties ...
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    53,49 €

  • Hieroglyphics
    Arthur Machen
    First published in 1902, 'Hieroglyphics: A Note upon Ecstasy in Literature' is an analysis of the nature of literature by Welsh author Arthur Machan. Within it, Machan concludes that to be ’true’ literature, the work must contain or convey a sense of ’ecstasy’. This fascinating volume will appeal to both writers and readers with an interest in Machan’s seminal work, and it woul...
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    20,27 €

  • James Baldwin and the Short Story
    Benedict Ushedo
    This book examines the range of issues that echo in James Baldwin’s short stories. It articulates and defends the claim that the stories in the collection Going to Meet the Man are driven by the autobiographical memory of the author. To support this line of thought and the related proposition that the stories feed into themes relevant to self-knowledge, vicarious suffering, lov...
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    40,70 €

  • James Baldwin and the Short Story
    Benedict Ushedo
    This book examines the range of issues that echo in James Baldwin’s short stories. It articulates and defends the claim that the stories in the collection Going to Meet the Man are driven by the autobiographical memory of the author. To support this line of thought and the related proposition that the stories feed into themes relevant to self-knowledge, vicarious suffering, lov...
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    24,53 €

  • Sacred Femininity and the politics of affect in African American women's fiction
    Vicent Cucarella Ramón
    This book presents the way in which African American women writers (Hannah Crafts, Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison) have followed the spiritual endeavor of black Christianity as created by early nineteenth-century spiritual narratives to construct a sacred reading of the black female self. The sacred femininity that puts the ethics and aesthetics of African American women ...
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    14,00 €

  • Dracula - the Essex Connection!
    Ian Yearsley
    The story of Count Dracula, the blood-sucking vampire of Bram Stoker's classic gothic horror novel and the subsequent star of a multitude of stage and film presentations, is well-known: a creature which comes alive at night when everyone else is asleep to feast on the warm blood of young maidens before returning to its coffin home at dawn; one which can be repelled by garli...
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    13,38 €

  • A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English
    Carol Senf / Ellen J. Stockstill / Ellen JStockstill / Sherri Brown / Sherri L. Brown / Sherri LBrown
    A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers the study of Gothic cultural artifacts, focusing on narrative fiction. This authoritative guide equips students and other researchers with valuable information about recent noteworthy resources that they can use to make their research effective and thorough. ...
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    125,33 €

  • Pagan Saints in Middle-earth
    Claudio A. Testi / Claudio ATesti
    Is Tolkien’s work Christian or pagan? This question has intrigued readers and scholars ever since The Lord of the Rings has been published. Even today this important problem has not been given the full critical attention it deserves, and the present volume is an attempt to provide an answer.The volume contains a comprehensive bibliography on the subject, detailed indices, a for...
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    30,75 €

  • Richard Marsh, popular fiction and literary culture, 1890-1915
    This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of the New Grub Street, Marsh was an important presence within fin-de-siècle literary culture, whose middlebrow genre fiction simultaneously reinforces and challenges the dominant discourses of the period. ...
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    169,69 €

  • Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema
    Anindita Banerjee
    The first collection of essays devoted to the rich tradition of Russian science fiction on the page and the screen from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. A resource for classroom instruction as well as research, it provides a comprehensive overview of science fiction’s important role in Russian society, politics, technology, and culture. ...
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    106,56 €

  • Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema
    Anindita Banerjee
    The first collection of essays devoted to the rich tradition of Russian science fiction on the page and the screen from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. A resource for classroom instruction as well as research, it provides a comprehensive overview of science fiction’s important role in Russian society, politics, technology, and culture. ...
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    35,04 €

  • Chivalry in Westeros
    Carol Parrish Jamison
    George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has sparked a renewed interest in things medieval. The pseudo-historical world of Westeros delights casual fans while offering a rich new perspective for medievalists and scholars. This study explores how Martin crafts a chivalric code that intersects with and illuminates well known medieval texts, including both romance and her...
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    42,90 €

  • Gothic incest
    Jenny DiPlacidi
    Gothic incest provides the first book-length study of incest in the genre. It challenges dominant critical accounts about gender and sexuality in Gothic literature of the eighteenth century and the Romantic period by revealing the complexities of the pervasive, yet largely neglected, incest thematic. DiPlacidi argues that Gothic writers negotiated, resisted and reimagined the p...
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    157,07 €

  • America’s Changing Icons
    Annessa Ann Babic
    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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    122,14 €

  • An Artsy Life
    Jane Summers
    The life, culture, tradition and seasons, portrayed in this book, are glimpses of life, lived through time.A collection of stories, expressions, thoughts and contexta weave for time!A focus of thoughts, patterns and rigors of life, embodied into stories. A way of life, translated into short stories, an overview of life lived. The stories have a reference in time, of the early 1...
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    12,30 €

  • Marvel’s Black Panther
    Todd Steven Burroughs
    Created by Marvel Comics Legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, The Black Panther is considered the first Black superhero in American mainstream comics. Through a textual analysis, this book narrates the history of the character from his first appearance in 1966—the same year, the Black Panther Party was formed in Oakland, California—through Ta-Nehisi Coates’ version in 2015. It tell...
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    24,98 €

  • Radical Philosophy 2.01
    Radical Philosophy Collective
    Radical Philosophy is a London-based intellectual magazine which has been self-published since its founding in 1972.Radical Philosophy 2.01 (2018) contentsCrimes of solidarityMartina TazzioliPostmodernity, not yetNathan BrownHegel and the Advent of ModernityJamila M. H. MascatDossier: On the 1917 commemorations   Revolutionary commemoration   Hannah Proctor   Order in disorder ...
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    17,92 €

  • saint Sebastian The Rose
    Michael W Glover
    At seventeen, Sebastian's world is dominated by fairly normal things--his adoptive family, his new friends--and his unrelenting fear of vampires! Sebastian lives in an English monastery converted from an ancient vampire's home containing the secrets of vampire graveyards. Sebastian knows that some never truly die, and they must be guarded; he is the unlikely keeper of s...
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    8,89 €

  • Memos to Society 3
    James Davis
    These are my obligations. What do I owe? I owe my services to myself and the obedience to write Memos to Society 3. The author writes with a good and fair conscience. This book has given the author that consciousness to reflect consciously to backtrack the paths that he has taken. How can you discover something that was already there? A dialogue with whom? Myself. ...
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    8,95 €

  • Oh My God They Printed That!?
    Carson Demmans
    No history of comics could fairly rank the milestones without first acknowledging the millstones. Who knew that iconic artists such as Jack Kirby, Bill Ward, and writer Otto Binder once conjured racist and sexist depictions of Wonder Woman, Li’l Abner, Captain Marvel, and Luke Cage? Back then, stereotypes were dynamo tropes.Since their invention, comics tried to reflect on life...
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    23,64 €


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