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  • The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks
    Simone Caroti
    This critical history of Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels covers the series from its inception in the 1970s to the The Hydrogen Sonata (2012), published less than a year before Banks’ death. It considers Banks’ origins as a writer, the development of his politics and ethics, his struggles to become a published author, his eventual success with The Wasp Factory (1984) and the pu...
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    42,75 €

  • FLATLAND - A Romance of Many Dimensions (The Distinguished Chiron Edition)
    Edwin Abbott
    This special edition is a distinguished vintage reproduction, of the 1884 satirical novella Flatland, by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott. Meticulously elaborated by the editorial team of Chiron Academic Press in collaboration with the renowned literature publisher Edition l’Aleph (www.l-aleph.com), this special edition, pays particular attention to the very authentic deta...
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    9,18 €

  • She-wolf
    Hannah Priest
    She-Wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature. ...
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    169,87 €

  • Neil Gaiman in the 21st Century
    Tara Prescott
    Neil Gaiman has emerged as one of the most influential literary figures of the 21st century. To borrow a phrase from his viral 2012 University of the Arts commencement speech, Gaiman 'makes good art,' from his graphic novels to his social media collaborations, award-winning fantasy fiction and beloved children’s books. This collection of new essays examines a range of Gaim...
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    28,13 €

  • Tolkien’s Intellectual Landscape
    E L Risden / E.L. Risden
    The work of J.R.R. Tolkien has had a profound effect on contemporary fiction and filmmaking. Often disparaged by critics, Tolkien’s fiction created a market for the 'fantasy trilogy' and his academic work represents an innovative contribution to the field of philology. In the 20th century, his fiction bridged the gap between 'learned' and 'popular' readerships. Today the fan...
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    28,26 €

  • Touching the Wind
    Lourdes Odette Aquitania Ricasa
    Lourdes Odette Aquitania Ricasa loves to play the piano, paint, and write. She is a world traveler who has been to 257 countries and is one of the prolific writers of our time.Explore-in-depth coverage takes you beyond the classic cities into the heart of the islands of Indonesia’s verdant green and purple hills of Tana Toraja, the Dani tribes of Wamena, Papua (formerly Irian J...
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    30,83 €

  • Touching the Wind
    Lourdes Odette Aquitania Ricasa
    Lourdes Odette Aquitania Ricasa loves to play the piano, paint, and write. She is a world traveler who has been to 257 countries and is one of the prolific writers of our time.Explore-in-depth coverage takes you beyond the classic cities into the heart of the islands of Indonesia’s verdant green and purple hills of Tana Toraja, the Dani tribes of Wamena, Papua (formerly Irian J...
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    40,45 €

  • Gothic Fiction and the Invention of Terrorism
    Joseph Crawford
    This book examines the connections between the growth of’terror fiction’ - the genre now known as ’Gothic’ - in the late eighteenthcentury, and the simultaneous appearance of the conceptual origins of’terrorism’ as a category of political action. In the 1790s, Crawford argues, fourinter-connected bodies of writing arose in Britain: the historical mythology ofthe French Revoluti...
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    64,21 €

  • The Law for Comic Book Creators
    Joe Sergi
    Since the creation of the comic book, cases of legal conflict and confusion have often arisen where concepts such as public domain, unincorporated entities and moral rights are involved. As a result, comics creators are frequently concerned about whether they are protecting themselves. There are many questions and no single place to find the answers--that is, until now. ...
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    51,47 €

  • Scribes of Speculative Fiction II
    Cristopher DeRose
    As a Speculative Fiction writer himself, Cristopher DeRose has the rightback ground to ask incisive questions about of the authors of legendarystorytelling about their style and experience. Cristopher has not onlyprovided interviews, but insights into the minds of some of SpeculativeFiction¹s most popular voices.'In his fiction, Cristopher writes characters that feel as real as...
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    24,78 €

  • Roman Satire Old Comic Tradition
    Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill / Jennifer LFerriss-Hill
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    130,01 €

  • Christina Rossetti’s Gothic
    Serena Trowbridge
    The poetry of Christina Rossetti is often described as ’gothic’ and yet this term has rarely been examined in the specific case of Rossetti’s work. Based on new readings of the full range of her writings, from ’Goblin Market’ to the devotional poems and prose works, this book explores Rossetti’s use of Gothic forms and images to consider her as a Gothic writer. Christina Rosset...
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    64,26 €

  • Modern Mythmakers
    Michael McCarty
    Modern Mythmakers is a collection of 35 interviews from horror and science fiction's most influential writers and filmmakers, including Ray Bradbury, Dean Koontz, Richard Matheson, John Carpenter, John Saul, Joe McKinney, the Night of the Living Dead crew (including John Russo, Kyra Schon and Russ Streiner), Elvira, Whitley Strieber, Christopher Moore, and many more.Line-up...
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    16,02 €

  • Gothic Journal
    Speedy Publishing LLC
    There are five top benefits for owning a Gothic journal.The unique look of the cover is perfect for the entries you are making.Material compiled for gothic fiction is easy to review.You can let out all the emotions you have that are gothic in nature out.Items and entries that do not fit in a traditional style journal can be kept.The journal is great for noting things about Goth...
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    12,04 €

  • Ciertas maneras de no hacer nada
    Tomás Eloy Martínez
    Una serie de textos sobre la ciudad y sus habitantes. 10 ...
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    20,80 €

  • H.P. Lovecraft and the Stars
    E. Hoffmann Price
    Originally published in The Arkham Sampler in 1949, E. Hoffmann Price’s article on astrology and H.P. Lovecraft mixes his own astrological reading of Lovecraft with reminiscences about his friend and colleague. A fascinating article by one of the grand masters of fantasy and horror, and one of the few who knew Lovecraft well enough to write with authority about the man and his ...
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    9,90 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction
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    68,63 €

  • The Science Fiction of Phyllis Gotlieb
    Dominick Grace
    Gotlieb is a writer central to the Canadian science fiction canon. Though she has been called the queen of Canadian SF by Robert J. Sawyer, and though David Ketterer has suggested that she is Canadian SF, Gotlieb has been largely overlooked by SF studies. This book delves deeply into her body of work and traces her career in detail. Offering close readings of Gotlieb’s novel...
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    42,82 €

  • Mastering the Game of Thrones
    George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series is a worldwide phenomenon, and the world of Westeros has seen multiple adaptations, from HBO’s acclaimed television series to graphic novels, console games and orchestral soundtracks. This collection of new essays investigates what makes this world so popular, and why the novels and television series are being taught in univ...
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    28,00 €

  • New International Voices in Ecocriticism
    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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    141,64 €

  • Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient
    While postcolonial studies of Romantic-period literature have flourished in recent years, scholars have long neglected the extent of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s engagement with the Orient in both his literary and philsophical writings. Bringing together leading international writers, Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient is the first substantial exploration of Coleridge’s literar...
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    64,16 €

  • The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction
    Christine Berberich
    Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of popular fiction. Charting the rise of commercial fiction from the 19th century to today, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction includes introductory surveys, written by leading scholars, to a wide range of popular ge...
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    225,70 €

  • The Canadian Fantastic in Focus
    Allan Weiss
    Bringing together papers presented at the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy from 2005 to 2013, this collection of essays includes Veronica Hollinger’s keynote address, 'The Body on the Slab,' and Robert Runte’s Aurora Award-winning paper, 'Why I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction,' along with 15 other contributions on science fiction and fantasy lite...
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    57,34 €

  • Lovecraft and a World in Transition
    S. T. Joshi
    For the past thirty-five years, S. T. Joshi has been one of the leading authorities on H. P. Lovecraft. As Lovecraft's editor and biographer, Joshi has revolutionized our understanding of the dreamer from Providence. This enormous volume, which contains all the critical essays that Joshi has written since 1979, is a treasure-house of scholarship that exhibits Joshi's all-encomp...
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    39,51 €

  • Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader
    Derek Thiess
    This book channels the speculative power of science fiction to examine the limits of postmodern philosophies of history. By contrasting the questioning nature of science fiction to postmodern philosophy of history, it finds that this postmodernism often engages in a forgetful, even ahistorical, reading of the past. ...
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    132,13 €

  • Doña Isidora, Peruvian Short Stories and Poetry of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
    Dorila Marting
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    186,56 €

  • Historical Dictionary of Romanticism in Literature
    Paul Varner
    The Historical Dictionary of Romanticism in Literature takes a close and comprehensive look at romanticism in literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. ...
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    208,10 €

  • Secrets of Crime Fiction Classics
    Stephen Knight
    Starting with William Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective fiction--Poe’s Dupin stories, Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Sayers’ Strong Poison, Chandler’s The Big Sleep, and Simenon’s The Yellow Dog. Lesser-known but important early w...
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    57,38 €

  • Deep Roots in a Time of Frost
    Patrick Curry
    In this collection of his published essays, Patrick Curry explores two themes in Tolkien’s great work: enchantment, the Elves and Faërie, and the natural world of Middle-earth. He considers their different effects on both readers and literary critics, and brings to light the deep connections between these two subjects, as well as between them and Tolkien’s ultimate concern, ’De...
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    30,53 €

  • Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics
    This book looks at the more recent works of fiction by Stephen King as well as an examination of his nonfiction book, On Writing, published in 2000. Works discussed in this volume include Duma Key, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Under the Dome, Joyland, and Dr. Sleep. ...
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    122,20 €


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