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  • Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies
    Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies: History, Pedagogy, Theory is the first English-language anthology to focus on graphic novels and comics from the German-speaking world. Its contributors take innovative historical, pedagogical, and theoretical approaches to reading contemporary German-language comics and, in doing so, demand that the German-language comics t...
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    142,72 €

  • The Return Of The Ring Volume II
    Few twentieth-century authors can compete with J.R.R. Tolkien. More than three-quarters of a century after the publication of The Hobbit in 1937, his works continue to captivate millions of readers across the world. As a collection of papers delivered in 2012 at the Tolkien Society’s international conference of the same name, The Return of the Ring is representative of the wide...
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    29,04 €

  • The Return Of The Ring Volume I
    Few twentieth-century authors can compete with J.R.R. Tolkien. More than three-quarters of a century after the publication of The Hobbit in 1937, his works continue to captivate millions of readers across the world. As a collection of papers delivered in 2012 at the Tolkien Society’s international conference of the same name, The Return of the Ring is representative of the wide...
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    28,74 €

  • Global Romanticism
    Building on postcolonial and transatlantic paradigms as well as new theoretical developments like Actor-Network-Theory, Global Romanticism: Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760–1820 views the literature and culture of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain and beyond through the lens of long-durational globalization. ...
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    63,43 €

  • The Two Romanticisms, and Other Essays
    William Christie
    The Romantic period is the most appealing but also the most confusing period of English literature for the student. Crucially, this book distinguishes between ’the Romantic’ as modern critics use the term and ’the romantic’ as it was used during the period itself.The Two Romanticisms, and Other Essays is a collection of critical essays on Romanticism and select Romantic texts, ...
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    22,60 €

  • Up, Up, and Away
    Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute
    Up, Up, and Away is a collection of writing by fifth-grade students from Farnsworth Aerospace school, who spent months writing these original works with the help of the Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute. From travel guides to alien planets to advice for chihuahuas on successfully piloting a hot air balloon, Up, Up, and Away, captures the unique and extravagant voices of the...
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    12,14 €

  • Open graves, open minds
    Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change ...
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    29,14 €

  • Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction
    Mitzi M. Brunsdale
    Since the late 1960s, the novels of Sjowall and Wahloo’s Martin Beck detective series, along with the works of Henning Mankell, Hakan Nesser and Stieg Larsson, have sparked an explosion of Nordic crime fiction--grim police procedurals treating urgent sociopolitical issues affecting the contemporary world. Steeped in noir techniques and viewpoints, many of these novels are re...
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    110,90 €

  • An Asimov Companion
    Donald E. Palumbo
    A prolific author, Isaac Asimov is most admired for his science fiction, including his collection of short stories I, Robot and his Robot, Empire and Foundation series novels. While each of these narratives takes place in a different fictional universe, Asimov asserted at the end of his career that he had, with his last Robot and Foundation novels, unified them into one cohe...
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    42,98 €

  • The Mythology of the Superhero
    Andrew R Bahlmann / Andrew R. Bahlmann
    Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide. Though scholars and fans have recognized and commented on this mythology, its structure has gone largely unexplored. This book provides a model and lexicon for identifying the superhero mythos. The author examines the myth...
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    42,90 €

  • Children’s Fantasy Literature
    Farah Mendlesohn / Michael Levy
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    101,86 €

  • The Supernatural Revamped
    This book presents the supernatural as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk characters, their literary representations, or popular media. Instead, we move around the world and into the twenty-first century, reshaping legends into a post-modern image that is psychologically and socially relevant. ...
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    120,68 €

  • Comedy and Culture
    Roger B. Henkle / Roger BHenkle
    Comedy cannot be understood as an abstract critical concept, argues Roger Henkle; it ’must be studied in specific cultural and historical contexts. From this point of view he examines the development of literary comedy in nineteenth-century England, and shows how comic modes and techniques were used to express and release the tensions of the middle class during periods of both ...
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    215,44 €

  • Discovering the Comic
    George McFadden
    Arguing that the comic is a quality of literary works of art in other forms as well as comedy, George McFadden finds its essence in the maintenance of some literary feature--a situation, a character--as itself despite threats to alter it.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of...
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    156,46 €

  • Fantastique
    Tony Earnshaw
    The stories behind some of cinema’s great movies by the people who made them. Here, in their own words, are insights, reminiscences and candid comments by the directors (and, occasionally, stars) of films as diverse as The Exorcist, Men in Black, Sleepy Hollow and Twelve Monkeys.The line-up is truly stellar. William Friedkin rubs shoulders with Barry Sonnenfeld and Will Smith. ...
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    26,04 €

  • Fantastique
    Tony Earnshaw
    This is the HARDBACK version. The stories behind some of cinema’s great movies by the people who made them. Here, in their own words, are insights, reminiscences and candid comments by the directors (and, occasionally, stars) of films as diverse as The Exorcist, Men in Black, Sleepy Hollow and Twelve Monkeys.The line-up is truly stellar. William Friedkin rubs shoulders with Bar...
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    34,67 €

  • A History of the Doc Savage Adventures in Pulps, Paperbacks, Comics, Fanzines, Radio and Film
    Robert Michael 'Bobb' Cotter
    Doc Savage is the prototype of the modern fictional superhero. The character exploded onto the scene in 1933, with the Great Depression and the gathering clouds of war as a cultural backdrop. The adventure series is examined in relation to historical events and the changing tastes of readers, with special attention paid to the horror and science fiction elements. The artwork...
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    36,77 €

  • Paperback Confidential
    Brian Ritt
    PAPERBACK CONFIDENTIAL: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era by Brian Ritt   These are the authors who turned out the dark noirs and hardboiled thrillers, private detective puzzles and psychological suspense, police procedurals and backwood melodramas, stories of passion… and cold-blooded murder. 132 profiles of the men and women who wrote the books that became the backbone of ...
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    14,00 €

  • Marvel Comics into Film
    Marvel Studios’ approach to its Cinematic Universe--beginning with the release of Iron Man (2008)--has become the template for successful management of blockbuster film properties. Yet films featuring Marvel characters can be traced back to the 1940s, when the Captain America serial first appeared on the screen. This collection of new essays is the first to explore the his...
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    44,13 €

  • The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx
    Yuan Yuan
    The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque probes the polemic status of the other and the dubious nature of the subject from a heterodox perspective of an emblematic grotesque figure, the Sphinx—the mystical trickster and the guardian of sacred knowledge in Egyptian culture. ...
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    112,51 €

  • Swinford Family Portrait in Short Stories
    Don Swinford
    Donald Ray SwinfordBorn: January 24, 1937 in Coles County, IllinoisMarried Marilyn Eads, September 20, 1958Children: Brian James, William Ray, and Beth EllenA retired Certified Public AccountantBachelor of Science Accountancy, University of IllinoisSon of Ruby and Adren SwinfordSibling of Owen Franklin, Eula Katherine, Hazel MaxineEdna Pearl, Albert Dale, James Cleo, and Aaron ...
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    15,85 €

  • Swinford Family Portrait in Short Stories
    Don Swinford
    Donald Ray SwinfordBorn: January 24, 1937 in Coles County, IllinoisMarried Marilyn Eads, September 20, 1958Children: Brian James, William Ray, and Beth EllenA retired Certified Public AccountantBachelor of Science Accountancy, University of IllinoisSon of Ruby and Adren SwinfordSibling of Owen Franklin, Eula Katherine, Hazel MaxineEdna Pearl, Albert Dale, James Cleo, and Aaron ...
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    26,64 €

  • The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds
    Brian Stableford
    British, French and American traditions of speculative fiction developed separately for more than a hundred years, with only slight overlaps prior to 1926, and continued to develop thereafter in accordance with different foci of interest and narrative methods, until the importation of the American label of 'science fiction' initiated a process of fusion that was still not compl...
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    54,86 €

  • A Tour of Fabletown
    Neta Gordon
    In 2002, Vertigo/DC Comics published the first issue of Bill Willingham’s Fables. The series imagined the lives of fairy tale figures--Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella and the ubiquitous Prince Charming, among many others--as they made new lives for themselves in modern-day New York City, having fled their storied homeworlds following an invasion. After 150 issues an...
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    42,93 €

  • Romantic Ecocriticism
    Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies examines the influence of the science of the age upon a host of English and American authors. The collection of essays develops transhistorical and transnational perspectives to examine the invaluable place of Romantic literary studies as inspiration behind the rise of early environmentalism in the nineteenth century and its subsequen...
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    149,58 €

  • The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie
    James Zemboy
    The most popular mystery writer of all time concocted a rich recipe of intrigue, character, and setting. All of Agatha Christie’s 66 detective novels are covered here in great detail. Each chapter begins with general comments on a novel’s geographical and historical setting, identifying current events, fashions, fads and popular interests that relate to the story. A concise...
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    59,31 €

  • The Ageless Agatha Christie
    J.C. Bernthal
    When Agatha Christie died in 1976, she was the bestselling mystery writer in history. This collection of new essays brings fresh perspectives to Christie scholarship with new readings and discussions of little-known aspects of her life, career and legacy. The contributors explore her relationship with modernism, the relevance of queer theory, television adaptations, issues w...
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    42,99 €

  • Forever Haunted
    Dutchie Malloy
    A dark past, a little girl, and a haunted future. Take a ride through her haunted life as her destiny appears to be forever haunted. ...
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    14,64 €

  • Adoring Outlander
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    What is behind Outlander fever--the hit television drama’s popularity? Is it author Diana Gabaldon’s teasing posts on social media? Is it the real history reimagined? The highly emotional melodrama? Or is it the take-charge heroine and the sweet hero in a kilt? One of the show’s biggest draws is its multigenre appeal. Gabaldon--whose Outlander novels form the basis of the ...
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    28,32 €

  • Harry Potter's Folklore World
    Robert B. Waltz
    Basilisks and bezoars, mandrakes and manticores: the world of Harry Potter is rich with fantastical creatures and magical objects. Some are from the imagination of J. K. Rowling, but many more are drawn from folklore from around the world. In this encyclopedic exploration of Harry Potter's folklore world, Robert Waltz traces the origins of beasts, talismans, character names, an...
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    22,56 €


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