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  • Comics as History, Comics as Literature
    Babic
    This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content, while keeping the approach on an international market versus the American one. ...
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    66,71 €

  • 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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    206,60 €

  • Images of the Modern Vampire
    Brodman
    This book examines vampires as an international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire, or twentieth-century film versions. Instead, the authors reshape the legend into a post-modern image that is psychologically and socially relevant while retaining elements of folklore mixed with a hint of science fiction. ...
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    61,15 €

  • The Amusing Bible
    Arthur Tovmasyan
    The Amusing Bible is the first English adaptation of La Bible Amusante, written in french by Leo Taxil in 1897, which was suppressed from being translated into English or Spanish. It contains quotes from the Bible, comments by Voltaire, Lord Bolingbroke, Fréret, Toland and over 400 illustrations by Frid’Rick. The Amusing Bible is a powerful weapon against the clergy and their d...
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    47,89 €

  • The Amusing Bible
    Arthur Tovmasyan
    The Amusing Bible is the first English adaptation of La Bible Amusante, written in french by Leo Taxil in 1897, which was suppressed from being translated into English or Spanish. It contains quotes from the Bible, comments by Voltaire, Lord Bolingbroke, Fréret, Toland and over 400 illustrations by Frid’Rick. The Amusing Bible is a powerful weapon against the clergy and their d...
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    36,65 €

  • The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Cthulhu Mythos
    S. T. Joshi
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    26,92 €

  • Lovecraft Annual No. 9 (2015)
    S. T. Joshi
    Table of ContentsLetters to Marian F. BonnerH. P. LovecraftMiscellaneous Impressions of H.P.L.Marian F. BonnerCan You Direct Me to Ely Court?: Some Notes on 66 College StreetKenneth W. Faig, Jr.66 College StreetDavid E. SchultzThe Thing (Flung Daily) on the Doorstep: Lovecraft in the Antipodean Press, 1803-2007Brendan WhyteCharles Baxter on LovecraftS. T. JoshiSix Degrees of Lo...
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    18,12 €

  • Lovecraft
    Donald Burleson
    For nearly forty years, Donald R. Burleson has been a leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft. Beginning in the late 1970s, he has written article after article that have cumulatively reshaped our understanding of the dreamer from Providence. Among his earlier papers can be found searching analyses of the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, and others on Lovecraft; s...
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    20,05 €

  • Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 1
    Lovecraftian Proceedings is the Official Organ of the Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Symposium. Established in 2013 as a key part of NecronomiCon Providence, the Armitage Symposium fosters exploration of Lovecraft as a rationalist who created an elaborate cosmic mythology, and how this mythology was influenced by, and has come to influence, numerous other authors and artists. Tabl...
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    20,02 €

  • Thomas Pynchon
    Andrew Taylor / Simon Malpas
    A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon ...
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    33,22 €

  • Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder
    Dick Grayson--alter-ego of the original Robin of Batman comics--has gone through various changes in his 75 years as a superhero but has remained the optimistic, humorous character readers first embraced in 1940. Predating Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, he is one of DC Comics’ oldest heroes and retains a large and loyal fanbase. The first scholarly work to focus exclusivel...
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    42,31 €

  • The Ages of Iron Man
    Billionaire industrialist, cold warrior, weapons designer, alcoholic, philanthropist, Avenger--Tony Stark, alter-ego of Marvel Comics’ Iron Man, has played many roles in his five decades as a superhero. From his 1963 comics debut in Tales of Suspense to the recent film adaptations--The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013)--hundreds of creators have had a hand in writing the ch...
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    28,28 €

  • Harry Potter and the Classical World
    Richard A Spencer / Richard A. Spencer
    J.K. Rowling has drawn deeply from classical sources to inform and color her Harry Potter novels, with allusions ranging from the obvious to the obscure. 'Fluffy,' the vicious three-headed dog in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, is clearly a repackaging of Cerberus, the hellhound of Greek and Roman mythology. But the significance of Rowling’s quotation from Aeschylus a...
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    42,46 €

  • The Origin of Ancient Kyrgyz Tribes
    Anarbek Usupbaev Zamir Osorov
    Once upon a time, there lived one fatally unhappy family. Father was diligent, industrious, and even had good education but was unlucky. Mother was nice, lovely, and as housewife, was very good and competent, and children Hans and Gretel were very obedient, smart, and curious, but nevertheless the family business was not going well. It might be explained with two kinds of prepo...
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    16,99 €

  • Crime in Fact and Fiction
    Brian P Block
    This intriguing book highlights differences in how crime is portrayed in the arts compared to reality, focusing on the roles of the police, courts and forensic investigators. Of interest to criminologists, sociologists, lawyers and other criminal justice personnel, it will also appeal to anyone interested in crime and punishment.What we see or read in the media follows a formul...
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    28,86 €

  • Representations of Nature in Middle-earth
    Martin Simonson
    Tolkien’s portrayal of nature in Middle-earth has beeninterpreted in a variety of ways, often depending on thecontext of the reading. Some have seen Middle-earthand its potential destroyer, the Ring, as an allegory ofthe European continent under the threat of the atomicbomb, while others have embraced it as an artisticexpression of the Green movement’s agenda in the faceof indu...
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    30,60 €

  • Mysterious Tales From Turton Tower
    PETER STUART FARLEY
    Turton Tower has stood near the Lancashire village of Chapeltown for over five hundred years. During that time its presence has spawned numerous tales of a mysterious nature. Included in the catalogue of strange happenings, is an unexplained fire that caused damage to two of the rooms. At another time an office light was seen to be switching on and then off, when the building w...
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    21,34 €

  • Adapting Science Fiction to Television
    Malcolm Cook / Max Sexton
    This book looks at the adaptation of science fiction from literary and film sources for television. The authors examine television as having a separate identity and separate aesthetic principles from film and draw appropriate comparisons. ...
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    129,31 €

  • Churata Postcolonial
    Mabel Moraña
    a obra aún poco divulgada de Gamaliel Churata autor, entre otras cosas, de El pez de oro y Resurrección de los muertos constituye un desafío para el pensamiento latinoamericano. Considerado aún casi como un autor de culto, Churata se proyecta desde los horizontes de su época hacia la problemática cultural, política y social de nuestro tiempo. Este libro interroga la obra de est...
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    26,00 €

  • The Spectrum of English Murder
    Curtis EVans
    That British mysteries from the Golden Age of detective fiction (customarily defined as the period between the First and Second World Wars) were not only aesthetically but ideologically conservative has long been a commonplace of mystery genre criticism. In The Spectrum of English Murder, Curtis Evans challenges this view by looking at the detective fiction of Henry Lancelot Au...
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    31,61 €

  • The African American Experience in Crime Fiction
    Robert E Crafton / Robert E. Crafton
    An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors. Historically, the racist stereotypes often central to crime fiction and the socially conservative nature of the genre presented problems for writing the black experience, and the tropes of justice and restoration of social order have not resonated with a...
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    42,92 €

  • Literatura y ficción
    Autores Varios
    Este monográfico, publicado en dos grandes volúmenes, da cuenta de las principales líneas de investigación actuales en torno a literatura y ficción en la Edad Media. Se recogen estudios sobre el discurso literario y la poética de la ficción, los distintos modelos y materias narrativas, así como su evolución y recepción a lo largo de la Edad Media, los géneros literarios de la f...
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    24,50 €

  • The Comics of Joss Whedon
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    A great deal of scholarship has focused on Joss Whedon’s television and film work, which includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, The Cabin in the Woods and The Avengers. But Whedon’s work in the world of comics has largely been ignored. He created his own dystopian heroine, Fray, assembled the goofy fannish heroes of Sugarshock, and wro...
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    42,73 €

  • For Exposure
    Jason B Sizemore
    What does it take to become a Hugo and Stoker Award-nominated editor and publisher? Follow Jason Sizemore’s unconventional professional path as it winds through a tiny, overheated Baptist church deep within the coal fields of Appalachia, Kentucky, past a busted printer and a self-serving boss that triggered an early mid-life crisis and the epiphany that he should open a magazin...
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    32,02 €

  • Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination
    Simon Marsden
    Readers of Emily BrontÁ’s poetry and of Wuthering Heights have seen in their author, variously, a devout if somewhat unorthodox Christian, a heretic, or a visionary "mystic of the moors". Rather than seeking to resolve this matter, Emily BrontÁ and the Religious Imagination suggests that such conflicting readings are the product of tensions, conflicts and ambiguities within the...
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    64,40 €

  • The Star Trek Universe
    Douglas Brode / Shea T Brode
    This collection of essays looks at the spinoffs of Star Trek and examines themes found in and among those various manifestations. ...
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    122,24 €

  • Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek
    Douglas Brode / Shea T Brode
    This collection of essays looks at the groundbreaking impact of the original Star Trek series (1966-1969) and the various themes that the show conveyed, not only during its run but in the subsequent film and cartoon versions featuring the original characters and cast members. ...
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    122,23 €

  • Horrors of War
    Miller
    This volume explores the representation of the supernatural in war stories in various media. These essays show how such depictions reflect (or challenge) the popular memory of particular wars and engage with cultural attitudes toward war in general and associated issues such as battlefield heroism, military ethics, and the politics of sacrifice. ...
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    121,83 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction
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    27,13 €

  • The Symbolism and Sources of Outlander
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Outlander is much more than a television romance about a World War II nurse and a Jacobite soldier in a fetching kilt. The series--and the massive serial novel on which it is based--has been categorized as a period drama, adventure saga, military history and fantasy epic. Inspired by the Irish legends of Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the prophecies of Brahan Seer, the storyline is ...
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    28,20 €


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