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  • Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. ZOMNIBUS
    Kevin J Anderson
    Back from the Dead,Back on the CaseMeet Dan Chambeaux—a.k.a. Dan Shamble—zombie detective, a persistent hardboiled gumshoe (or maybe that’s something more sinister on the bottom of his shoe…)Even being murdered doesn’t keep a good detective down, and in the Unnatural Quarter—inhabited by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies, and all sorts of creatures that go bump (or thud!) i...
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    15,89 €

  • The English Short Story in Canada
    Reingard M. Nischik
    In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro. The award focused international attention on a genre that had long been thriving in Canada, particularly since the 1960s. This book traces the development and highlights of the English-language Canadian short story from the late 19th century up to t...
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    57,26 €

  • The Algerian War in French-Language Comics
    Jennifer Howell
    This book analyzes representations of the Algerian War in French-language comics published since 1982. Throughout this book, Howell investigates the ways in which marginalized memory communities resist, rewrite, and/or repair institutionalized history in popular culture. ...
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    66,59 €

  • Espectros
    Espectros is a collection of original scholarly studies on contemporary literature and film in Spanish and by authors of Latin American descent. Contributors contemplate ghosts, haunting, the spectral, and absence as central motifs in narratives that deal with the aftermath of collective or individual trauma. ...
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    63,82 €

  • Gothic Spring
    Caroline Miller
    When Vicar Flemming arrives with his wife, Eva, to take up his post in the Victorian village of Braxton in northern England, his handsome figure sets the ladies's hearts aflutter, including that of Victorine Ellsworth, a young girl in her mid-teens who is bright, beautiful and bored by the confinement imposed upon her by her occasional bouts of epilepsy.  With too much tale...
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    10,21 €

  • A orillas de la noche
    Daúr Nachkebia
    En el idioma abjasio la palabra guerra significa asesinato mutuo, una definición cruel pero honesta, sin matices paliativos. Por lo visto, se remonta a la época muy remota cuando el ser humano llamaba las cosas por su nombre, porque aún no existían las normas políticamente correctas 10 ...
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    15,60 €

  • Superheroines and the Epic Journey
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    The heroine’s journey echoes throughout ancient legend. Each young woman combats her dark side and emerges stronger. This quest is also a staple of American comic books. Wonder Woman with semi-divine powers gives us a new female-centered creation story. Batgirl, Batwoman and Black Widow discover their enemy is the dark mother or shadow twin, with the savagery they’ve rejecte...
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    28,04 €

  • De las intimidades congeladas a los marcos de guerra
    Katarzyna Moszczynska-Durst
    Este libro tiene como objetivo analizar la codificación del amor y de la identidad en la novelística de escritoras españolas contemporáneas. A partir de una suerte de diálogos literario-teóricos, Katarzyna Moszczynska-Dürst, levanta un puente entre novelistas y pensadoras feministas: Rosa Montero y Eva Illouz; Carme Riera y Luce Irigaray; Esther Tusquets y Julia Kristeva; Monts...
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    25,00 €

  • Marvel’s Black Widow from Spy to Superhero
    Sherry Ginn
    First appearing in Marvel Comics in the 1960s, Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. Black Widow, was introduced to movie audiences in Iron Man 2 (2010). Her character has grown in popularity with subsequent Marvel films, and fans have been vocal about wanting to see Black Widow in a titular role. Romanoff has potent appeal: a strong female character who is not defined by her looks or he...
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    28,49 €

  • The Ages of the Justice League
    The first superhero team from the Silver Age of comics, DC’s Justice League has seen many iterations since its first appearance in 1960. As the original comic book continued and spin-off titles proliferated, talented writers, artists and editors adapted the team to appeal to changing audience tastes. This collection of new essays examines more than five decades of Justice ...
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    28,35 €

  • Translated Poe
    This international and intercultural book examines translation histories and outstanding readings of the words of Edgar Allan Poe in nineteen national and literary traditions. It maps out Poe’s global dissemination and examines the different designs, processes, and offshoots of the appropriations of his works. ...
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    73,78 €

  • The Threshold of Forever
    Darrell Schweitzer
    Darrell Schweitzer's third collection of essays and reviews, a successor to the well-received 'Windows of the Imagination' and 'The Fantastic Horizon,' is a balanced mixture of scholarship and entertainment, ranging over the entire spectrum of imaginative literature, from the oldest novel in the world (1st century B.C.) to classic (and not-so-classic) pulp fiction, to child...
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    16,43 €

  • Mortality and Music
    Christopher Partridge
    The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners. Yet we constantly live with the awareness of our vulnerability as mortals. Drawing on a range of genres, bands and artists, Mortality and Music examines the ways in which popular music has responded to our awareness of the inevitability of death and the anxiety it can evoke. Exploring b...
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    64,18 €

  • Fascist Lizards from Outer Space
    Dan Copp
    When Kenneth Johnson’s science fiction miniseries V premiered in 1983, it netted more than 40 percent of the television viewing audience and went on to spawn a sequel, a weekly series, novelizations, comic books and a remake. Yet the 2009 V reboot was cancelled in its second season, despite a robust premiere. Both versions were products of their respective times, but the ori...
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    28,44 €

  • Science Fiction and Futurism
    Ace G. Pilkington
    Science and science fiction have become inseparable--with common stories, interconnected thought experiments, and shared language. This reference book lays out that relationship and its all-but-magical terms and ideas. Those who think seriously about the future are changing the world, reshaping how we speak and how we think. This book fully covers the terms that collected,...
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    50,20 €

  • Saving the World Through Science Fiction
    Michael R. Page
    One of the major figures in science fiction for more than sixty years, James Gunn has been instrumental in making the genre one of the most vibrant and engaging areas of literary scholarship. His genre history Alternate Worlds and his The Road to Science Fiction anthologies introduced countless readers to science fiction. He founded the Gunn Center for the Study of Science F...
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    42,58 €

  • Katherine V. Forrest
    Phyllis M. Betz
    Best known for her Kate Delafield detective series, Katherine V. Forrest is recognized as one of the preeminent figures in lesbian popular literature. Yet her work has received little scholarly attention. This critical study explores Forrest’s entire body of work, including her fiction and (perhaps more importantly) her writing about writing, popular genres and her readers. ...
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    72,17 €

  • Inspired by Nature
    This anthology was compiled by a small group of creative people, gently guided by Scott  Fuller, who gathered during the summer of 2016 in Dedham, Maine on Peaked Mountain Farm and Native Pollinator Sanctuary. They explored how the principles of composition influenced their writing and its relationship to inspiration gained from nature. 3 ...
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    14,82 €

  • The Essential Elements of the Detective Story, 1820-1891
    LeRoy Lad Panek / Mary M. Bendel-Simso
    Until recently, only a privileged few could read the rare, early writings that formed the basis of detective fiction in America and made it one of the most popular literary genres of the 19th century. Drawing on the unprecedented access provided by digital collections of period newspapers and magazines, this book examines detective fiction during its formative years, focusin...
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    57,34 €

  • Gender Bending Detective Fiction
    Heather Duerre Humann
    Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. Reflecting these changes, storylines that involve cross-dressing and transgender characters have frequently appeared in detective fiction--characters who subvert the conventions of the genre and challenge reader expectations. This examination of 20th and 21st century crime novels reveals...
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    72,18 €

  • Educating through Popular Culture
    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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    157,67 €

  • Inventing Comics
    Rodolphe Töpffer
    In English and FrenchIn recent years, graphic novels have gained a renewed interest from a host of scholars in a diverse range of fields, including rhetoric and writing, media studies, literary studies, visual communication, graphic arts, and art history. While many of these studies reference Rodolphe Töpffer as the inventor (or, “father”) of the genre, his scholarly work addre...
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    76,22 €

  • Inventing Comics
    Rodolphe Töpffer
    In recent years, graphic novels have gained a renewed interest from a host of scholars in a diverse range of fields, including rhetoric and writing, media studies, literary studies, visual communication, graphic arts, and art history. While many of these studies reference Rodolphe Töpffer as the inventor (or, “father”) of the genre, his scholarly work addressing the theoretical...
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    38,39 €

  • Romanticism, Gender, and Violence
    Nowell Marshall
    Responding to work by Eve Sedgwick and recent media attention to queer suicide, this project theorizes performative melancholia, a condition where, regardless of sexual orientation, overinvestment in gender norms causes subjects who are unable to embody those norms to experience socially expected (‘normal’) gender as something unattainable or lost. ...
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    58,48 €

  • Crime Fiction as World Literature
    While crime fiction is one of the most widespread of all literary genres, this is the first book to treat it in its full global is the first book to treat crime fiction in its full global and plurilingual dimensions, taking the genre seriously as a participant in the international sphere of world literature. In a wide-ranging panorama of the genre, twenty critics discuss crime ...
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    225,86 €

  • Science Fiction Criticism
    Rob Latham
    Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as: ·Definitions and boundaries of the genre ·The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to ’inner space’ ·Ideology a...
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    224,52 €

  • The Gothic and death
    An interdisciplinary collection providing new perspective on the interface between the gothic and death, with fresh readings of established, overlooked and recent Gothic works across a variety of cultural and literary forms. ...
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    169,63 €

  • The Sub-genres of British Fantasy Literature
    A J Dalton
    Nominated for the BSFA Awards 2017 for non-fiction and cover art!'This is an essential guide to help readers and writers of fantasy know their grimdark from their urban, dark, epic, high and metaphysical fantasy. International fantasy author A J Dalton explains how each of the sub-genres of fantasy literature is a response to their own social and historical period. Each sub...
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    18,53 €

  • 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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    172,07 €

  • Comic Connections
    Sandra Eckard
    This book focuses on defining heroic traits in popular characters such as Superman, Batman, or Daredevil, while offering a scholarly perspective on how to analyze character and identity in ways that would complement any literary classroom. ...
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    71,38 €


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