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  • The Satanic in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    A J Dalton
    Satan, Dracula, Sauron, Lord Foul, Darth Vader. The motif of the Satanic Dark Lord is ever-present in science fiction and fantasy, a malign intelligence seeking to thwart the Chosen One.In the literature of the 1980s and 90s, the Dark Lord is always defeated. However, post-millennium, there are signs that he has finally begun to get the upper hand, as we witness his change from...
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    18,92 €

  • Monstrous Women in Comics
    TBD
    Contributions by Novia Shih-Shan Chen, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Keri Crist-Wagner, Sara Durazo-DeMoss, Charlotte Johanne Fabricius, Ayanni C. Hanna, Christina M. Knopf, Tomoko Kuribayashi, Samantha Langsdale, Jeannie Ludlow, Marcela Murillo, Sho Ogawa, Pauline J. Reynolds, Stefanie Snider, J. Richard Stevens, Justin Wigard, Daniel F. Yezbick, and Jing ZhangMonsters seem to be every...
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    157,92 €

  • Monstrous Women in Comics
    TBD
    Contributions by Novia Shih-Shan Chen, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Keri Crist-Wagner, Sara Durazo-DeMoss, Charlotte Johanne Fabricius, Ayanni C. Hanna, Christina M. Knopf, Tomoko Kuribayashi, Samantha Langsdale, Jeannie Ludlow, Marcela Murillo, Sho Ogawa, Pauline J. Reynolds, Stefanie Snider, J. Richard Stevens, Justin Wigard, Daniel F. Yezbick, and Jing ZhangMonsters seem to be every...
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    49,76 €

  • Neo-Gothic Narratives
    ’Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times. ...
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    180,40 €

  • Apocalyptic Ecology in the Graphic Novel
    Clint Jones
    As awareness of climate change grows, so do the number of cultural depictions of environmental disaster. Graphic novels have reliably produced dramatizations of such disasters. Many use themes of dystopian hopefulness, or the enjoyment readers experience from seeing society prevail in times of apocalypse. This book argues that these generally inspirational narratives contr...
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    57,62 €

  • The Horror Weekend
    G R Jordan
    A last-minute replacement on a role-playing weekend. One fatal accident after another. Can Macleod overcome the snowstorm from hell to stop a killer before the guest list becomes obsolete?Detectives Macleod and McGrath join a bizarre cast of characters at a remote country estate on the Isle of Harris where fantasy and horror are the order of the day. But when regular accidents ...
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    11,73 €

  • Philip K. Dick
    David Sandner
    Philip K. Dick was a visionary writer of science fiction. His works speak to contemporary fears of being continually watched by technology, and the paranoia of modern life in which we watch ourselves and lose our sense of identity. Since his death in 1982, Dick’s writing remain frighteningly relevant to 21st century audiences. Dick spent his life in near poverty and it was o...
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    54,40 €

  • 21st-Century Horror
    Sunand Tryambak Joshi
    The literature of terror and the supernatural has been experiencing a renaissance over the past several decades, and with the advent of the new millenium a diverse cadre of writers have expanded the bounds of weird fiction and enriched it with their penetrating visions. This book is the first to present a broad analysis of horror fiction as written by writers in their forties a...
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    36,52 €

  • Två fantasistycken
    Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
    Berättat av fantasins och sällsamheternas mästare:I kortromanen Lille Zachris, kallad Cinober är feerna, trollkarlarna och magin bannlysta ur furst Paphnutius rike för att inte störa det viktiga upplysningsarbetet. Men somliga dröjer kvar under antagna identiteter och kommer behändigt till nytta när den förnäme studenten Cinober anländer till universitetsstaden. Han skapar ored...
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    27,42 €

  • Study Guide to Faustus and Other Works by Christopher Marlowe
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Christopher Marlowe, the foremost Elizabethian tragedian of his day. Titles in this study guide include Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great, The Jew of Malta, and Edward II. As Shakespeare’s most important predecessor and influencer of English drama, Marlowe’s plays are most...
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    8,55 €

  • Study Guide to Othello by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Othello, the inspiration behind many operas, films, and literary adaptations. As a tragedy of the seventeenth-century, Othello’s performance continues today due to the timeless themes of racism, love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge and repentance. Moreover, Shakespeare was ins...
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    15,66 €

  • Study Guide to King Lear by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s King Lear, listed as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. As a theatrical work of the seventeenth-century, King Lear provides commentary on power dynamics within family and political structures. Moreover, it shows how the use of imagery in a narrative contributes to the...
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    8,42 €

  • Study Guide to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a romance characterized by love sonnets, rhyme, and imagery of light and dark. As a tragedy of the late-sixteenth-century, Romeo and Juliet displays Elizabethan belief in astrology and fate as it applies to the two star-crossed lovers. Moreover, the story...
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    11,19 €

  • Study Guide to Madame Bovary and Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Gustave Flaubert, the prime influencer of French realist literature. Titles in this study guide include Madame Bovary and Three Tales. As a leading exponent of literary realism, Flaubert’s work illustrates elaborate devotion to style and aesthetics. Moreover, he emphasizes the...
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    8,38 €

  • Study Guide to Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Other Works by Samuel Beckett
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1969. Titles in this study guide include All That Fall, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, and Waiting for Godot. As an unconventional but modernist author of the war-ravaged twentieth-century, B...
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    6,75 €

  • Study Guide to Ivanhoe and Other Works by Sir Walter Scott
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sir Walter Scott, the inventor and greatest practitioner of the historical novel. Titles in this study guide include Ivanhoe, The Heart of Midlothian, and Quentin Durward. As a noteworthy voice of nineteenth century literature, Scott’s writings gave way to a new and vivid tell...
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    12,77 €

  • Study Guide to Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which centers around the holiday time for rejoicing and practical jokes twelve days after Christmas.As a comedy of the early-seventeenth-century, Twelfth Night is regarded as Shakespeare’s most masterful work of literature when it comes to theme, structure, a...
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    8,46 €

  • Study Guide to A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of Shakespeare’s most famous and widely performed plays for the stage. As a comedy of the sixteenth-century, Shakespeare expertly examines the unpredictability and impact of romantic love. Moreover, love is the most prominent theme, expressed...
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    6,75 €

  • Study Guide to The Comedies by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by William Shakespeare, considered one of the greatest playwrights in history. Titles in this study guide include Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale, and...
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    17,20 €

  • Study Guide to Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, the last of Shakespeare’s political tradegies. As an unusual and intense, intellectual drama, Shakespeare employs single narrative line and striking images, but the most effective moments in the play are developed through understated silence. Moreover, he imple...
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    12,93 €

  • Study Guide to Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakepeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2, the gripping third installment of kingship and rebellion. As a detail-rich history of the sixteenth century, Shakespeare skillfully combines history and comedy, moving from intense battle scenes of kings to simple scenes of country life. Moreover, his com...
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    8,36 €

  • 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 €

  • Skymningstankar och nattvakor
    Helena Nyblom / Selma Lagerlöf / Zacharias Topelius
    På en grushög längst inne i valvet satt den vansinniga och höll i sin famn ett halvmurket benrangel, kring vilket några gulgråa, ursprungligen vita tyglappar fladdrade för luftdraget... Och den galna satt och vyssjade benranglet som ett litet barn och sjöng så gott hon kunde sina barndomsvisor, och i hennes förr så vilda ögon glänste nu den renaste, lycksaligaste modersglädje.M...
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    28,75 €

  • 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 €

  • Comics and Adaptation
    Contributions by Jan Baetens, Alain Boillat, Philippe Bourdier, Laura Cecilia Caraballo, Thomas Faye, Pierre Floquet, Jean-Paul Gabilliet, Christophe Gelly, Nicolas Labarre, Benoît Mitaine, David Roche, Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, Dick Tomasovic, and Shannon Wells-LassagneBoth comics studies and adaptation studies have grown separately over the past twenty years. Yet there are few...
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    50,16 €

  • Patrick Modiano
    Manuel Peris Mir
    En Modiano la figura del perro es a veces un explorador anímico en el deambular del protagonista por las calles de París, a veces un guía en la búsqueda fantasmagórica de personajes desaparecidos, en ocasiones un doble simbólico del narrador, cuando no del hermano muerto, e incluso de ambos, en un sujeto desdoblado que los aúna: el perro y yo / mi hermano y yo; de forma que la ...
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    18,50 €


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