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  • May the Armed Forces Be with You
    Stephen Dedman
    Science fiction and the United States military often inhabit the same imaginative space. Weapons technology has taken inspiration from science fiction, from the bazooka and the atomic bomb to weaponized lasers and drones. Star-spangled superheroes sold war bonds in comic books sent to GIs during World War II, and adorned the noses of bombers. The same superheroes now appear ...
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    42,75 €

  • The Science Fiction Mythmakers
    Jennifer Simkins
    A literary genre that pervades 21st-century popular culture, science fiction creates mythologies that make statements about humanity’s place in the universe and embody an intersection of science, religion and philosophy. This book considers the significance of this confluence through an examination of myths in the writings of H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick a...
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    42,95 €

  • Superwomen
    Carolyn Cocca
    Over the last 75 years, superheroes have been portrayed most often as male, heterosexual, white, and able-bodied. Today, a time when many of these characters are billion-dollar global commodities, there are more female superheroes, more queer superheroes, more superheroes of color, and more disabled superheroes--but not many more. Superwomen investigates how and why female sup...
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    226,03 €

  • Postmodern Paradigm and Salman Rushdie’s Fiction
    Dr Shaikh Suhel Samad
    The book highlights that postmodern fiction and more so Rushdie’s fiction is concerned with: 1. A preoccupation with viability of systems and representations. 2. The decentring of the subject and the inscription of multiple fictive selves. 3. Narrative fragmentation, narrative reflexivity and narratives which doubleback on their own pre-suppositions. 4. An open-ended play with ...
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    16,97 €

  • How Superheroes Model Community
    Nathan Miczo
    How Superheroes Model Community examines superheroes as a community engaged in protecting the public sphere. Nathan Miczo highlights and explores the interpersonal and communicative practices that are necessary to being a member of such a community. ...
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    114,19 €

  • Alice in Transmedia Wonderland
    Anna Kérchy
    Part of Alice’s appeal is her ambiguity, which makes possible a range of interpretations in adapting Lewis Carroll’s classic Wonderland stories to various media. Popular re-imaginings of Alice and her topsy-turvy world reveal many ways of eliciting enchantment and shaping make-believe. Late 20th century and 21st century adaptations interact with the source texts and with e...
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    58,70 €

  • Pariah in the Desert
    Todd S Garth / Todd S. Garth / Todd SGarth
    The first book in English on canonical Spanish American writer Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878–Argentina 1936), Pariah in the Desert examines his works through the theoretical lens of the heroic and the complementary phenomenon of the monstrous. This focus on reveals the ethical coherence galvanizing the extraordinary range of Quiroga’s work and its engagement with multiples disc...
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    108,33 €

  • New International Voices in Ecocriticism
    Oppermann
    New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory, ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical texts, and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations, postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer ecologies. ...
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    65,51 €

  • The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub
    John C Tibbetts / John C. Tibbetts
    Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre’s explicit nature. For him, the Gothic style is to be created and recreated in a changing world--Faustian pacts, buried secrets, haunted places, ghosts, vampires and succubi take on strange new shapes and effects. Stephen King describes Straub’s style as 'a...
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    42,72 €

  • EcoGothic
    This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. The book’s focus is from the late eighteenth century to the present day, via consideration of a number of national and global contexts and different media including short stories, novels and films. ...
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    29,71 €

  • The War of the Worlds
    Peter J. Beck
    First published in 1897, H.G. Wells’s alien invasion narrative The War of the Worlds was a landmark work of science fiction and one that continues to be adapted and referenced in the 21st century. Chronicling the novel’s contexts, its origins and its many multi-media adaptations, this book is a complete biography of the life - and the afterlives - of The War of the Worlds. Exp...
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    192,75 €

  • Gothic death 1740-1914
    Andrew Smith
    Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914. ...
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    157,65 €

  • Lovecraft Annual No. 10 (2016)
    S. T. Joshi
    Table of ContentsLovecraft and Egypt: A Closer ExaminationDuncan NorrisForgotten Influence: A. Merritt's 'The Face in the Abyss' and H. P. Lovecraft's 'The Mound'Peter LeviEssential Saltes: Lovecraft's Witchcraft John SaloniaH. P. Lovecraft's Weird Body Alison SperlingQueer Geometry and Higher Dimensions: Mathematics in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft Daniel M. L...
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    16,20 €

  • Stephen King and Philosophy
    Haunting us with such unforgettable stories as The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, Salem’s Lot, Carrie, The Green Mile, and Pet Sematary, Stephen King has been an anchor of American horror, science fiction, psychological thrillers, and suspense for more than forty years. His characters have brought chills to our spines and challenged our notions of reality while leaving us i...
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    17,14 €

  • Peruvian Short Stories
    Dorila a. Marting
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    18,50 €

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel
    Lisa Rodensky
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    65,28 €

  • Heroines of Comic Books and Literature
    Bajac-Carter
    This edited collection offers a variety of perspectives focusing on representation of women as heroines across printed media. In addition, the book extends the discussion of heroines for the broader audience, which provides a much needed, more nuanced discussion of this topic across American popular culture. Contributors go beyond the expected account of women as mothers, wive...
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    47,34 €

  • Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics
    Dan Hassler-Forest
    From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres offer highly detailed political worlds beyond capitalism. This book examines the complex ways in which these popular storyworlds offer valuable conceptual tools for anti-capitalist participatory politics. ...
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    171,98 €

  • Scott’s Shadow
    Ian Duncan
    Scott’s Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation. Ian Duncan shows how Walter Scott became the central figure in these developments, and how he helped redefine the novel as the principal modern genre for the representatio...
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    42,66 €

  • When Life Gives You Lemons
    Christy Larson
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    32,02 €

  • Alien Imaginations
    Ulrike Küchler
    As both an extra-terrestrial and a terrestrial migrant, the alien provides a critical framework to help us understand the interactions between cultures and to explore the transgressive force of travel over geographical, cultural or linguistic borders. Offering a perspective on the alien that connects to scholarship on immigration and globalization, Alien Imaginations brings tog...
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    64,05 €

  • Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics
    Dan Hassler-Forest
    From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres offer highly detailed political worlds beyond capitalism. This book examines the complex ways in which these popular storyworlds offer valuable conceptual tools for anti-capitalist participatory politics. ...
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    57,15 €

  • Estimado Cliente
    Marcelo Herrera
    En este libro encontrarás historias reales de servicio al cliente. Todas las anécdotas que leerás aquí pertenecen tanto a buenas como a malas experiencias tanto del cliente como del proveedor del servicio. Si buscabas anécdotas graciosas con servicios técnicos, casos reales de atención al cliente, situaciones divertidas y conocer las más disparatadas reacciones de los siempre ...
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    7,97 €

  • Outsiders
    Sylvia Huot
    Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Historium regum Britannie, by Brutus and his Trojan followers, giants are permanently at odds with the chivalric culture of the romance world. Whether they are portrayed as brute savages or as tyrannical pagan lords, giants serve as a ...
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    44,46 €

  • The Physics and Astronomy of Science Fiction
    Steven D. Bloom
    The great scientific, astronomical and technological advances of the 20th century inspired the science fiction genre to imagine distant worlds and futures, far beyond the discoveries of the here and now. This book explores science fiction films, television series, novels and short stories--from Lost in Space (1965-1968) to Fringe (2008-2013) to the works of Isaac Asimov and ...
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    42,78 €

  • Outlander’s Sassenachs
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    A time travel epic featuring history and romance, Outlander--unlike most adventure series--is aimed at women audiences. The kilted male characters, the female narrator, the fantastic period costumes are atypical of male-gendered television. Both the show and the novels on which it is based address issues most series shy away from, like breast feeding, abortion and birth cont...
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    28,54 €

  • Who Is Sherlock?
    Lynnette Porter
    Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective’s identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Readers and audiences, not to mention scholars and critics, continue to analyze who Sherlock Holmes is or has become and why and how his identity has been formed in a specific way. The films Sherlock Hol...
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    42,86 €

  • Dragon Ball Culture Volume 1
    Derek Padula
    See Dragon Ball with new eyes. This book is your cultural tour guide to Dragon Ball, the world's most recognized anime and manga series. Over 12 years in development, Dragon Ball Culture is a 7 Volume analysis of your favorite series. You will go on an adventure with Son Goku, from Chapter 1 to 194 of the original Dragon Ball, as we explore every page, every panel, and ever...
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    17,33 €

  • Sinister histories
    Jonathan Dent
    Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hitherto neglected relationships between Gothic texts and prominent works of eighteenth-century history. ...
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    157,20 €

  • Alan Moore and the Gothic tradition
    Matthew Green
    The first book-length study to address Moore’s significance to the Gothic, this volume is also the first to provide in-depth analyses of his spoken-word performances, poetry and prose, as well as his comics and graphic novels. ...
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    33,08 €


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