Estudios literarios: ficción, novelistas y prosistas

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  • The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger
    Jess Nevins
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    94,70 €

  • Apocalyptic Fiction
    Andrew Tate
    Visions of post-apocalyptic worlds have proved to be irresistible for many 21st-century writers, from literary novelists to fantasy and young adult writers. Exploring a wide range of texts, from the works of Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Tom Perrotta and Emily St. John Mandel to young adult novels such as Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games series, this is the first critical...
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    154,60 €

  • A Means to Freedom
    H. P. Lovecraft / HPLovecraft / Robert E. Howard / Robert EHoward
    H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard are two of the titans of weird fiction of their era. Dominating the pages of Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s, they have gained worldwide followings for their compelling writings and also for the very different lives they led. The two writers came in touch in 1930, when Howard wrote to Lovecraft via Weird Tales. A rich and vibrant correspo...
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    32,21 €

  • A Means to Freedom
    H. P. Lovecraft / HPLovecraft / Robert E. Howard / Robert EHoward
    In the second volume of the letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, the two authors continue their wide-ranging discussion of such central issues as the relative value of barbarism and civilization, the virtues of the frontier and of settled city life, and other related issues. Lovecraft regales Howard with his extensive travels up and down the eastern seaboard, includ...
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    32,25 €

  • 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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    36,76 €

  • Scandinavian Crime Fiction
    Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
    With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre’s key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sjöwall and Wahlöö’s ...
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    154,27 €

  • Russian Short Stories
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky / Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
    In 1834 two short stories appeared, The Queen of Spades, by Pushkin, and The Cloak, by Gogol. The first was a finishing-off of the old, outgoing style of romanticism, the other was the beginning of the new, the characteristically Russian style. We read Pushkin's Queen of Spades, the first story in the volume, and the likelihood is we shall enjoy it greatly. "But why is it R...
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    22,31 €

  • Dimensions of Madeleine L’Engle
    Suzanne Bray
    Best known for her Newbery Medal-winning novel A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007) had a long and successful writing career. Her books enjoyed popular acclaim and she was in constant demand to give speeches, write forewords and advise and encourage younger authors. Yet her work--particularly her adult fiction--has been largely ignored by scholars. This collectio...
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    42,94 €

  • Before Einstein
    Elizabeth L. Throesch / Elizabeth LThroesch
    Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. ’Before Einstein’ offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth ce...
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    165,71 €

  • Towards Sherlock Holmes
    Stephen Knight
    Crime fiction--a product of the burgeoning metropolis of the 19th century--features specialists who identify criminals to protect an anxious citizenry. Before detectives came to play the central role, the protagonists tended to be lawyers or other professionals. Major English writers like Gaskell, Dickens and Collins contributed to the genre--Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a H...
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    57,42 €

  • Narnia, Middle-Earth and The Kingdom of God
    Mark Worthing
    Narnia, Middle-Earth and the Kingdom of God tells the story of fantasy literature within the context of its complex relationship with the Christian tradition. In this book, Worthing looks at early influences on the genre, including European fairy tales and folklore, Northern and classical mythology, and Christian allegory. He also explores the contours of a variety of fantasy w...
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    37,62 €

  • Narnia, Middle-Earth and The Kingdom of God
    Mark Worthing
    Narnia, Middle-Earth and the Kingdom of God tells the story of fantasy literature within the context of its complex relationship with the Christian tradition. In this book, Worthing looks at early influences on the genre, including European fairy tales and folklore, Northern and classical mythology, and Christian allegory. He also explores the contours of a variety of fantasy w...
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    20,52 €

  • Savage Economy
    Walter Wadiak
    In Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance, Walter Wadiak traces the evolution of the medieval English romance from its thirteenth-century origins to 1500, and from a genre that affirmed aristocratic identity to one that appealed more broadly to an array of late medieval communities. Essential to this literary evolution is the concept and practice of 'noble' gift-...
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    49,71 €

  • Murder in the Closet
    Curtis Evans
    Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of 'the closet'--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed 'queer' was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are...
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    57,15 €

  • Dead Reckonings No. 19-20 (Fall 2016)
    This double issue features regular columnist Ramsey Campbell, six pungent reviews from the formidable S. T. Joshi, new releases from John Langan, Michael Cisco, Michael Griffin, and others and substantial pieces on Robert Aickman, The Twilight Zone authors, and interview with Chet Williamson and reviews of his two latest releases, and more!   3 ...
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    15,31 €

  • Haunted Landscapes
    Examines the concept of landscape as a multitude of places and spaces haunted by spectres, memory, trauma and nostalgia in literature, art and film from Victorian times to the present. ...
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    178,86 €

  • Haunted Landscapes
    Examines the concept of landscape as a multitude of places and spaces haunted by spectres, memory, trauma and nostalgia in literature, art and film from Victorian times to the present. ...
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    59,87 €

  • Native Americans in Comic Books
    Michael A Sheyahshe / Michael A. Sheyahshe
    This work takes an in-depth look at the world of comic books through the eyes of a Native American reader and offers frank commentary on the medium’s cultural representation of the Native American people. It addresses a range of portrayals, from the bloodthirsty barbarians and noble savages of dime novels, to formulaic secondary characters and sidekicks, and, occasionally, p...
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    43,94 €

  • Laughter in Middle-earth
    "It is precisely against the darkness of the world that comedy arises, and it is best when that is not hidden."With these words Tolkien replied to Rayner Unwin's comments upon first reading Book 1 of Lord of the Rings. Rayner had not commented on the comedy of Book 1 but on the overpowering effect of "the struggle between darkness and light", as he put it, and that omission...
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    30,57 €

  • Sedna
    Richard L Smith
    The year is 2117.  The United World Science Foundation has sanctioned a team of geologists to explore the remote minor planet known as Sedna.  About one-half the diameter of Pluto, Sedna orbits twice as faraway from Earth as Pluto is, and at this distance, it receives only weak sunlight and is dark, cold, and forbidding.  Discovered in the first decade of the twenty first centu...
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    15,03 €

  • London After Midnight
    Thomas Mann
    Tod Browning’s silent movie horror film, London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B. Walthall, and Polly Moran, has intrigued silent movie fans for decades. Now considered a lost film, surviving production stills, a Photoplay Edition novel, scripts, and other memorabilia give some feel for the actual film, but their varying plot gaps,...
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    32,73 €

  • Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who 2014-2015
    Steven Cooper
    After three successful seasons at the helm of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat was faced with the need to establish a whole new direction for the show with the introduction of his second Doctor. When it was announced in August 2013 that Peter Capaldi would be taking over the role for the following year’s series, Doctor Who’s public profile was bigger than ever before, and the reveal o...
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    13,70 €

  • Gothic kinship
    Brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and theorization of the different appearances of the Gothic family ...
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    29,69 €

  • Sara Paretsky
    Margaret Kinsman
    Sara Paretsky’s groundbreaking mystery series about Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski debuted in 1982 and is still going strong. She is a co-founder of Sisters in Crime (worldwide organization supporting women writers), a sought-after public speaker and the 2015 president of the Mystery Writers of America. This book is the first comprehensive reference work on P...
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    73,11 €

  • The Politics of Perfection
    Kimberly Hurd Hale
    This book explores the relationship between modern technological progress and classical liberalism. The compatibility of classical liberalism and technology is questioned, using fiction and film as a window into Western society’s views on politics, economics, religion, technology, and the family. ...
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    114,23 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro
    David Staines
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    72,63 €

  • Globalgothic
    Glennis Byron
    This collection of essays redefines what gothic has become in the contemporary world, examining the idea of an emerging gothic that is inextricable from the broader global context in which it circulates. Globalgothic expands the horizons of the genre in diverse new and exciting ways. ...
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    29,59 €

  • Sink or Swim
    Louise Harris
    Have you ever faced something that you felt was insurmountable? Once you figured out a solution, did you realize that the obstacle was necessary even though it was difficult to endure at the time. The authors of the stories in Sink or Swim all have faced obstacles, some life-threatening. When you read these stories, you will understand that obstacles in life are important. The ...
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    16,53 €

  • On Eagles’ Wings
    Anna Thayer
    If you are at all familiar with Tolkien’s work, then Bilbo’s cry – proclaiming the arrival of Eagles – will be no stranger to you. Indeed, these plot-armoured birds are somewhat of a hallmark of the Master of Middle-Earth, one rejoiced over and lampooned in equal measure by both lovers and critics of his writing.But they are misunderstood. Tolkien’s Eagles cannot be taken liter...
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    22,82 €

  • Theology and Science Fiction
    James F. McGrath / James FMcGrath
    What is the difference between a god and a powerful alien? Can an android have a soul, or be considered a person with rights? Can we imagine biblical stories being retold in the distant future on planets far from Earth? Whether your interest is in Christianity in the future, or the Jedi in the present--and whether your interest in the Jedi is focused on real-world adherents or ...
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    17,08 €


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