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  • George V. Higgins
    Erwin H. Ford
    Best known for his popular crime fiction, Boston novelist George V. Higgins (1939-1999) should stand among the top ranks of the American literary canon. In his 26 novels and dozens of short stories, Higgins chronicled the lives of Boston’s Irish with his trademark hard-boiled dialog, exploring the criminal underworld, American democracy, Boston politics, personal redemption ...
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    57,46 €

  • The Horror Comics
    William Schoell
    From the Golden Age of the 1940s, through the Silver Age of the ’60s, up until the early ’80s--the end of the Bronze Age. Included are the earliest series, like American Comics Group’s Adventures into the Unknown and Prize Comics’ Frankenstein, and the controversial and gory comics of the ’40s, such as EC’s infamous and influential Tales from the Crypt. The resurgence of mon...
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    44,16 €

  • The Ages of the X-Men
    The X-Men comic book franchise is one of the most popular of all time and one of the most intriguing for critical analysis. With storylines that often contain overt social messages within its 'mutant metaphor,' X-Men is often credited with having more depth than the average superhero property. In this collection, each essay examines a specific era of the X-Men franchise in r...
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    28,22 €

  • The Lost of a Grandmother
    Jalise Stroud
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    13,89 €

  • Self and Other
    Kate Daniels
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    136,20 €

  • Soul of the Dark Knight
    Alex M. Wainer
    This is a book about the comics genre and language, how these were used to create Batman, and how that character’s longevity is largely due to the medium’s unique formal qualities. It argues that Batman’s core appeal is his mythic nature which allows him to transcend changes in reader tastes, the vicissitudes of the comics industry, and the changing media landscape. While in...
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    42,93 €

  • Tolkien’s Sacramental Vision
    Craig Bernthal
    One of Tolkien’s great appeals to readers is that he offers a world replete with meaning at every level. To read and reread Tolkien is to share his sense of wonder and holiness, to be invited into the presence of a 'beauty beyond the circles of the world.' It is to fall in love with a universe that has a beginning and an end, where good and bad are not subjective choices, but o...
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    22,22 €

  • Fantastika
    'Fantastika are those abundant modes of telling the world that open out beyond myth, legend, prophecy and tales of horror.Science fiction can be seen as the natural voice of a persistent Apollonian pressure to reshape the unruly into spandex. Yet Dionysian fuming and glee will burst into this rationalized sf world. Suppressed elements of our human experience seethe up as horro...
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    17,64 €

  • Your New Adventure
    Jean Maalouf
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    23,28 €

  • Your New Adventure
    Jean Maalouf
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    31,68 €

  • The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
    Barbara Pezzotti
    An analysis of the relationship between detective fiction and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. ...
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    63,99 €

  • The Language of Doctor Who
    The BBC television series Doctor Who has been a cherished cornerstone of science fiction for five decades. This edited collection provides critical analyses of the series, connecting popular culture and academia through its exploration of the rich intersection of language, literature, and text in Doctor Who. Essays delve into a wide range of topics, from semantics to fandom and...
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    142,73 €

  • From Peterborough to Faery
    For years, Allan G. Turner has contributed to the academic study of the field of Fantasy literature, with special focus on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. His colleagues and friends, in co-operation with Walking Tree Publishers, have thus decided to honour him with a festschrift on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The volume comprises contributions by Tom A. Shippey, Wolfram R. ...
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    24,54 €

  • Peruvian Short Stories
    Dorila a. Marting
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    80,93 €

  • Reading Richard Matheson
    Richard Matheson (1926-2013) was a prolific author and screenwriter whose career of more than 60 years has shaped the horror and fantasy genres in literature, film, and television. This volume examines seven of Matheson’s full-length novels, a sampling of short stories, and several film adaptations. The chapters, which are arranged in three thematic sections, emphasize Matheson...
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    142,88 €

  • The Foreign in International Crime Fiction
    ’The foreigner’ is a familiar character in popular crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a unique perspective on a familiar or exotic location to the xenophobic portrayal of the criminal ’other’. Exploring popular crime fiction from across the world, The Foreign in International Crime Writing examines these popular works as ’transcultural cont...
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    64,15 €

  • X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor
    Joseph J. Darowski / Joseph JDarowski
    Among both fans and the academic community, there is a general assumption that the X-Men franchise is one of the most progressive and inclusive superhero comic books that has been published. However, this study challenges such assumptions, revealing that there is an unfortunate trend throughout the majority of the title’s history: Minority characters are most likely to be villa...
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    122,20 €

  • Rhapsody
    Hal Duncan
    Acclaimed author and critic Hal Duncan turns his analytic eye towards the development and current state of speculative fiction in American and English writing in the pages of Rhapsody. Duncan's trademark wry humor and suffer-no-fools approach to critiquing the genre will make this book more than a resource for students of the field--anyone who enjoys reading tales of the fa...
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    29,22 €

  • Anniecat Chronicles
    Joan Rust
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    18,72 €

  • A Common Bond of Collective Memories
    Marie McGifford
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    14,62 €

  • Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, 1796-1817
    Monika Class
    Author of Biographia Literaria (1817) and The Friend (1809-10, 1812 and 1818), Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the central figure in the British transmission of German idealism in the 19th century. The advent of Immanuel Kant in Coleridge’s thought is traditionally seen as the start of the poet’s turn towards an internalized Romanticism. Demonstrating that Coleridge’s discovery of ...
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    51,00 €

  • Environments in Science Fiction
    The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the relationships among humans, other animals and their shared environments? Spaces, as well as a sense of place or belonging, play major roles in many science fiction works. This book focuses especially on depictions of the future that include, but m...
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    42,94 €

  • Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler
    Gregory Jerome Hampton
    Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler is the first monograph of literary criticism invested in examining the complete body of fiction produced by Octavia Butler. This book interrogates Butler’s feminist/postmodern/black woman’s science fiction from an interdisciplinary perspective while maintaining its capacity to translate/extrapolate some of the most esoteric theor...
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    62,88 €

  • Behind the Thin Blue Line
    Richard Blackwelder
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    18,60 €

  • Behind the Thin Blue Line
    Richard Blackwelder
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    32,69 €

  • Heroines of Comic Books and Literature
    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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    135,90 €

  • Bloody Italy
    Patricia Prandini Buckler
    These new essays comprise a critical analysis of present-day crime fiction and nonfiction works set in Italy (all of which are available in English). The writers discussed range from Donna Leon and Michael Dibdin to Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea Camilleri. Essays also deal with nonfiction by Roberto Saviano and Douglas Preston. An emerging theme is the corruption of Italian p...
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    72,14 €

  • Science Fiction
    Sherryl Vint
    From its beginnings in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to the virtual worlds of William Gibson’s Neuromancer and The Matrix, Science Fiction: A Guide to the Perplexed helps students navigate the often perplexing worlds of a perennially popular genre. Drawing on literature as well as example from film and television, the book explores the different answers that criticism...
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    39,47 €

  • Journeys into Darkness
    James Goho
    This single author collection of essays tackles the usual subjects in horror literature—particularly Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. P. Lovecraft and Ramsey Campbell—but also examines some of the less well-known names of the genre, including Charles Brockden Brown and Algernon Blackwood. ...
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    143,00 €

  • Superhero Synergies
    This collection of essays explores the developing relationship between superheroes and various forms of media, examining how the superhero genre, which was once limited primarily to a single medium (comic books/graphic novels) has been developed into video games, digital comics, films, Internet criticism, novelizations, television programs, the fanboy phenomenon, and many other...
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    142,85 €


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