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  • More Words about Pictures
    With a Preface by Perry Nodelman, this book represents the current state of research on picturebooks and adjacent hybrid forms such as comics, graphic novels, and book apps for and about young people. ...
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    78,69 €

  • New Directions in Children’s Gothic
    Anna Jackson
    This book addresses a gap in the critical literature between adult Gothic narrative and children’s and YA literature in the Gothic tradition. The volume asks how this literature helps readers contextualize and understand their psychological and social environments during periods of cultural change, global terror, and economic uncertainty. ...
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    73,40 €

  • Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media
    Aspasia Stephanou
    This book examines the manifestations of materiality across different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of horror that deals with the horror of the nonhuman, the machine and the nonorganic. ...
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    241,28 €

  • Middlebrow Wodehouse
    Ann Rea
    Re-examining P.G. Wodehouse in the context of recent scholarship on the middlebrow, this collection attends to his self-conscious relationship to the literary marketplace and his role in moving musical comedy away from vaudeville’s lowbrow associations towards the sophistication of the Wodehouse style. ...
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    72,90 €

  • The Ages of The Flash
    Joseph J Darowski
    While many American superheroes have multiple powers and complex gadgets, the Flash is simply fast. This simplicity makes his character easily comprehendible for all audiences, whether they are avid comic fans or newcomers to the genre, and in turn he has become one of the most iconic figures in the comic-book industry. This collection of new essays serves as a stepping-ston...
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    40,70 €

  • Steve Gerber
    Jason Sacks
    Steve Gerber (1947-2008) is among the most significant comics writers of the modern era. Best known for his magnum opus Howard the Duck, he also wrote influential series such as Man-Thing, Omega the Unknown, The Phantom Zone, and Hard Time, expressing a combination of intelligence and empathy rare in American comics.Gerber rose to prominence during the 1970s. His work for Marve...
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    42,70 €

  • Steve Gerber
    Jason Sacks
    Steve Gerber (1947-2008) is among the most significant comics writers of the modern era. Best known for his magnum opus Howard the Duck, he also wrote influential series such as Man-Thing, Omega the Unknown, The Phantom Zone, and Hard Time, expressing a combination of intelligence and empathy rare in American comics.Gerber rose to prominence during the 1970s. His work for Marve...
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    158,15 €

  • Medieval Crime Fiction
    Anne McKendry
    Combining elements of medievalism, the historical novel and the detective narrative, medieval crime fiction capitalizes upon the appeal of all three--the most famous examples being Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose (one of the best-selling books ever published) and Ellis Peters’ endearing Brother Cadfael series. Hundreds of other novels and series fill out the genre, in s...
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    57,26 €

  • Neoliberal gothic
    A comprehensive study of how different Gothic forms have adapted, engaged with and represented the neoliberal agenda across the globe. ...
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    171,07 €

  • 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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    36,90 €

  • Eleanor Cameron
    Paul V Allen
    Eleanor Cameron (1912-1996) was an innovative and genre-defying author of children's fiction and children's literature criticism. From her beginnings as a librarian, Cameron went on to become a prominent and respected voice in children's literature, writing one of the most beloved children's science fiction novels of all time, The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroo...
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    42,78 €

  • Bride of Destiny
    Sovella Brown Thompson
    BRIDE OF DESTINY, a mystery based on real events. Our protagonist, Debra Martin is asked to return to her family home for her grandfather's funeral after being away for twenty years. However, a funeral is not all she returns to. The chanting in the night did not bother her until she realized that a voodoo ceremony was going on in the house, her new house that her grandfathe...
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    7,38 €

  • Larry Hama
    Christopher Irving
    Larry Hama (b. 1949) is the writer and cartoonist who helped develop the 1980s G.I. Joe toyline and created a new generation of comic book fans from the tie-in comic book. Through many interviews with Hama, this volume reveals that G.I. Joe is far from his greatest feat as an artist.At different points in his life and career, Hama was mentored by comics' legends Bernard Kri...
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    158,40 €

  • Larry Hama
    Christopher Irving
    Larry Hama (b. 1949) is the writer and cartoonist who helped develop the 1980s G.I. Joe toyline and created a new generation of comic book fans from the tie-in comic book. Through many interviews with Hama, this volume reveals that G.I. Joe is far from his greatest feat as an artist.At different points in his life and career, Hama was mentored by comics' legends Bernard Kri...
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    42,94 €

  • The Great Monster Magazines
    Robert Michael 'Bobb' Cotter
    This is a critical overview of monster magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s. 'Monster magazine' is a blanket term to describe both magazines that focus primarily on popular horror movies and magazines that contain stories featuring monsters, both of which are illustrated in comic book style and printed in black and white. The book describes the rise and fall of these...
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    43,99 €

  • Sublime Conclusions
    Robert K. Weninger / Robert KWeninger
    One writer, Mary Shelley, inaugurated two of the three paradigms through which human beings imagine, with panic or pleasure, the end of their species. Complementing her visions of a world-encompassing natural plague (The Last Man, 1826) and man-made technological self-eradication (Frankenstein, 1818), the third – and oldest – paradigm of how to depict humankind’s demise is the ...
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    24,93 €

  • The Harry Potter Generation
    Emily Lauer
    The generation of readers most heavily impacted by J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series--those who grew up alongside 'the boy who lived'--have come of age. They are poised to become teachers, parents, critics and writers, and many of their views and choices will be influenced by the literary revolution in which they were immersed. This collection of new essays explores the man...
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    54,43 €

  • A dona onc¸a e seus amigos
    Waldo Ney de Melo Tavares
    Estória que visa chamar atenção, principalmente das crianças, da necessidade de preservar o meio ambiente, transparecendo também a prática de bons hábitos, observando o exercício do perdão, tolerância e relacionamentos com os semelhantes e respeito aos animais. 10 ...
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    8,84 €

  • Native American Mystery Writing
    Mary Stoecklein
    This book analyzes Native-authored detective fiction to consider how Native authors use a popular literary genre to make social, cultural, and political critiques by shedding light on settler-colonial crimes, arguing for strengthened tribal sovereignty, and illustrating the resilience of Indigenous peoples. ...
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    122,55 €

  • Weird Talers
    Bobby Derie
    For more than a decade, Bobby Derie has written insightful and penetrating essays on some of the leading authors of pulp fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, especially Robert E. Howard and his friends, colleagues, and fellow-writers. In this collection of twenty-six essays, Derie covers an extraordinarily wide range of subjects; but in every instance he draws upon primary documents...
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    27,20 €

  • García Márquez
    Ciro Bianchi Ross / Ross Bianchi
    Gabriel García Márquez es, junto con Ernest Hemingway, el escritor no cubano más difundido en la Isla. Esta crónica devela de cabo a rabo sus vínculos con Cuba desde que en el Caribe colombiano se fascinó con la música cubana -Pérez Prado, el Trio Matamoros- y se entusiasmó con las radionovelas de Félix B. Caignet, y sigue el día a día de su estancia habanera, primero en 1959 y...
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    24,44 €

  • Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens
    Anna Milon
    This volume of proceedings contains papers from the largest and, perhaps, most diverse Tolkien Society Seminar to date.Following a much-contested Call for Papers, ‘Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens’ explores Tolkien’s complex use of religious ideology, the readers’ approach to their beloved fictional world via unusual spiritual and philosophical c...
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    18,99 €

  • Vastarien, Vol. 2, Issue 1
    Files Gemma / Gemma Files
    Vastarien: A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork and non-classifiable hybrid pieces.ContentsVenioGemma FilesThe Lord is an Active ShooterFiona Maeve GeistThe SistersF.J. BergmannHorror Religiosus: The...
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    15,89 €

  • Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
    Mike Ripley
    WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world. With a foreword by Lee Child. When Ian Fleming dismissed his books in a 195...
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    30,44 €

  • George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form
    Joseph Rex Young / Joseph Young
    Written in clear and accessible prose, George R. R. Martin and the Fantasy Form is a timely work which encourages a reassessment of Martin and his approach to his most famous novels. ...
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    241,06 €

  • The Science Fiction Fanzine Reader
    Luis Ortiz
    THE SCIENCE FICTION FANZINE READER: FOCAL POINTS, 1930-1960 is the first mainstream book to go into the background of fanzine culture and shed light on how science fiction fandom has shaped popular culture. Editor Luis Ortiz with his deep knowledge and passion for the genre has mined thousands of fanzines to collect more than 50 essays by participants in the genesis of American...
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    39,50 €

  • Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story
    Laird R. Blackwell
    Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic, and the editor of the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Queen--both a pen name and the fictional protagonist of the stories--was also a vital force behind the continuing popularity of crime...
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    72,06 €

  • Perspectives on Digital Comics
    This collection of new essays explores various ways of reading, interpreting and using digital comics. Contributors discuss comics made specifically for web consumption, and also digital reproductions of print-comics. Written for those who may not be familiar with digital comics or digital comic scholarship, the essays cover perspectives on reading, criticism and analysis of...
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    57,35 €

  • 'I’m Just a Comic Book Boy'
    Comics and the punk movement are inextricably linked--each has a foundational do-it-yourself ethos and a nonconformist spirit defiant of authority. This collection of new essays provides for the first time a thorough analysis of the intersections between comics and punk. The contributors expand the discussion beyond the familiar U.S. and UK scenes to include the influence pu...
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    57,40 €

  • Dining with Madmen
    Thomas Fahy
    In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror. Conspicuous consumption may have communicated success in the eighties, but only if it did not become visible on the body. American society had come to view fatness as a horrify...
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    50,15 €


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