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  • Super-History
    Jeffrey K Johnson / Jeffrey K. Johnson
    In the less than eight decades since Superman’s debut in 1938, comic book superheroes have become an indispensable part of American society and the nation’s dominant mythology. They represent America’s hopes, dreams, fears, and needs. As a form of popular literature, superhero narratives have closely mirrored trends and events in the nation. This study views American history...
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    43,95 €

  • THE HERO AND THE DRAGON
    Andrew Boll
    The Hero and the Dragon is a must read for anyone who enjoys reading fantasy fiction, or struggles with deciding if it is right for them or their children. This book explores many of the common elements in the fantasy genre, examining how they can be used to teach spiritual truths - and how they can be abused to lead young people into spiritual darkness. ...
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    27,81 €

  • Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract
    Claire P. Curtis / Claire PCurtis
    Fictional accounts of the end of the world rarely explore the end of humanity; instead they present the end of what we now know and the opportunity to start over. Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: ’We’ll Not Go Home Again’ contends that postapocalyptic fiction reflects one of our most basic political motivations and uses these fictional accounts to explore the mo...
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    64,20 €

  • Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination
    Elana Gomel
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    64,42 €

  • Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah
    Eric Hoffman
    In December 1977, struggling Canadian comic book artist Dave Sim self-published the first issue of Cerebus the Aardvark, a Conan the Barbarian satire featuring a foul-tempered, sword-wielding creature trapped in a human world. Over the next 26 years, Sim, and later collaborator Gerhard, produced an epic 6,000-page graphic novel, the longest-running English language comic ser...
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    51,38 €

  • The Irish Fairy Tale
    Vito Carrassi / Kevin Wren
    Through an original analysis of its structure and dynamics, the fairy tale ceases to be one of the many genres of fantastic narrative and rises to become a category, a universal modality both of the storytelling and of a world vision. The objective is to render the fairy tale a sort of emblematic location, where the study of narrative texts integrates itself with the socio-hist...
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    55,87 €

  • Apocalypse and Post-Politics
    Mary Manjikian
    In Mary Manjikian’s Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End, apocalypse-themed novels of contemporary America and historic Britain are affirmed as a creative luxury of development. Manjikian examines a number of such novels using the lens of an international relations theorist, identifying faults in the logic of the American exceptionalists and showing that the apo...
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    156,37 €

  • The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature
    H. P. Lovecraft
    H. P. Lovecraft’s 'Supernatural Horror in Literature,' first published in 1927, is widely recognized as the finest historical survey of horror literature ever written. The product of both a keen critical analyst and a working practitioner in the field, the essay affords unique insights into the nature, development, and history of the weird tale. Beginning with instances of weir...
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    27,78 €

  • Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative
    Although the idea that graphic narratives represent an important literary form is still debated in academic circles, in recent years comics scholarship has emerged into wider contexts. This collection of new essays considers various literary approaches to graphic narrative and sequential art. The authors examine the politics of comic form and narrative, the ways in which gra...
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    58,56 €

  • Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore
    Alan Moore, the idiosyncratic, controversial and often shocking writer of such works as Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and V for Vendetta, remains a benchmark for readers of comics and graphic novels. This collection investigates the political, social, cultural, and sexual ideologies that emerge from his seminal work, Lost Girls, and demonstrates how these ...
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    42,82 €

  • Gothic forms of feminine fictions
    Susanne Becker
    Gothic forms of feminine fictions is a study of the powers of the Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits renewed vitality in our media age with its obsession for stimulation and excitement. ...
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    29,32 €

  • The ghost story 1840-1920
    Andrew Smith
    The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History is the first book length analysis of the British ghost story in over thirty years. It includes readings of the economic, national, colonial, and gender contexts of the ghost story and provides a new and important critical re-evaluation of writers including Dickens, Collins, Henry James, and M.R. James. ...
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    29,70 €

  • Tolkien and Wagner
    Christopher MacLachlan
    Tolkien famously rejected comparison of his Ring with Wagner’s, though there is good evidence that Tolkien knew much more about Der Ring des Nibelungen than he let on after the publication of The Lord of the Rings. Analysis of that work from a Wagnerian point of view enables consideration of it in a new way. By exploring the parallels between Wagner’s Ring and Tolkien’s, a fres...
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    30,61 €

  • Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962
    Conventional wisdom holds that comic books of the post-World War II era are poorly drawn and poorly written publications, notable only for the furor they raised. Contributors to this thoughtful collection, however, demonstrate that these comics constitute complex cultural documents that create a dialogue between mainstream values and alternative beliefs that question or comp...
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    42,83 €

  • Imagination and Meaning in Calvin and Hobbes
    Jamey Heit
    From 1985 to 1995, the syndicated comic strip Calvin and Hobbes followed the antics of a precocious six-year-old boy and his sardonic stuffed tiger. At the height of its popularity, the strip ran in more than 2,400 newspapers and generated a fan base that continues to run in the millions. This critical analysis of Calvin and Hobbes explores Calvin’s world and its deep reserv...
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    28,33 €

  • The Dragon Tattoo and Its Long Tail
    David Geherin
    The enormous popularity of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy has raised awareness of other contemporary European authors of crime fiction. As a result, several of these novelists now reach a receptive American audience, eager for fresh perspectives in the genre. This critical text offers an introduction to current European crime writing by exploring ten of the best new crim...
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    72,18 €

  • The Ages of Superman
    Since Superman first appeared on the cover of Action Comics #1 in 1938, the superhero has changed with the times to remain a relevant icon of American popular culture. This collection explores the evolution of the Superman character and demonstrates how his alterations mirror historical changes in American society. Beginning with the original comic book and ending with the 2...
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    28,24 €

  • Blade Runner and the Cinema of Philip K. Dick
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    BLADE RUNNER AND THE CINEMA OF PHILIP K. DICK BY JEREMY MARK ROBINSON This book is about the films made from the fiction of Philip K. Dick, which include the classic movie Blade Runner, the Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner Total Recall, Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg, and 2007’s Next. A thorough exploration of Blade Runner forms the core of the book, looking at th...
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    27,18 €

  • Blade Runner and the Cinema of Philip K. Dick
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    BLADE RUNNER AND THE CINEMA OF PHILIP K. DICK BY JEREMY MARK ROBINSON This book is about the films made from the fiction of Philip K. Dick, which include the classic movie Blade Runner, the Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner Total Recall, Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg, and 2007’s Next. A thorough exploration of Blade Runner forms the core of the book, looking at th...
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    43,04 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
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    151,00 €

  • CLAMP in Context
    Dani Cavallaro
    Since its debut manga RG Veda, CLAMP has steadily asserted itself as one of the most widely renowned teams of manga artists, leaving a durable imprint in every established genre while also devising novel formulas along the way. Endowed not only with stylistic distinctiveness but also comprehensive cultural structure, CLAMP’s output is distinguished by unique worldbuilding fla...
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    42,93 €

  • Hobbit Place-names
    Rainer Nagel
    J.R.R. Tolkien’s giving of names has garnered considerable attention in the linguistic analysis of Tolkien’s works. Usually, however, the focus has been on singling out particular names of important individuals and places. Thorough analyses of names (place-names or personal ones) are usually reserved for Elvish names only.Thus, this book centres on the place-names as found in t...
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    30,37 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 5 No. 4) July/August 1981
    Guy M. Townsend
    The Mystery Fancier, July/August 1981, Volume 5 Number 4, contains: Peterman from the Old School, by Robert Sampson; Horror, Horror, and the Intellect: Giles Mont of Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone, by Jane Bakerman; Runing Hot and Cold with Ron Faust, by George Kelley; and Speaking with Myself, by Billy Barton. 3 ...
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    10,28 €

  • Inside Language
    Ross Smith
    Tolkien’s views on language, though never published as a formalised theory, were in some aspects rather ’heretic’ (to use Tom Shippey’s term) and seemed to fly into the face of ’established’ linguistic theory - most notably his conception of ’native (hereditary) language’ and, related to it, the idea of ’linguistic aesthetic’ and ’phonetic fitness’. Unfortunately, this aspect o...
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    24,54 €

  • Beyond Horatio’s Philosophy
    David Stevens
    In Beyond Horatio’s Philosophy: The Fantasy of Peter S. Beagle, David Stevens examines the fantasy of American writer Peter S. Beagle. He finds a consistent view of the world and an almost overpowering sense of humor, leading him to conclude that Beagle believes that love is the best thing we have and the only reason for living. His work will be read and enjoyed for generations...
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    17,33 €

  • Reflections in a Glass Darkly
    Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) is one of the leading weird writers of the nineteenth century, the author of 'Green Tea,' 'Carmilla,' Uncle Silas, and other classic works. In this volume, the first collection of essays about Le Fanu, three distinguished scholars have amassed a wealth of material on every aspect of the author's life, work, and influence. A biogr...
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    24,41 €

  • The Laughing Stalk
    Judy Batalion
    With contributions by leading scholars, writers and comedians in the USA, the UK and Canada, THE LAUGHING STALK: LIVE COMEDY AND ITS AUDIENCES focuses on the dynamics of audience behavior. Performers, writers, historians, producers, and theorists explore the practice and reception of live comedy performance, including cultural and historical variations in comedy audience conduc...
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    38,00 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 6 No. 5) September/October 1982
    Guy M. Townsend
    The Mystery Fancier, September/October 1982, Volume 6 Number 5, contains an index to TMF Volumes I-V, compiled by Charles K. Cook. 3 ...
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    10,28 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 9 No. 1) January/February 1987
    Guy M. Townsend
    The Mystery Fancier, January/February 1987, Volume 9 Number 1, contains: Abandoned Queens, and Some Notes on Unintentional Plagarism, by Ola Strom; Cronell Woolrich: The Last Years (Part III), by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.; The 'I' in Private Eye, by V. Louise Saylor; Further Games from the Literature, by William F. Deeck; and The Cream of Crime, by Frank Floyd. 3 ...
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    10,28 €

  • The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 9 No. 2) March/April 1987
    Guy M. Townsend
    The Mystery Fancier, March/April 1987, Volume 9 Number 2, contains: In Memoriam: John Nieminski, by Ely Liebow; Mystery Mosts, by Jeff Banks; A Consumption Devoutly to Be Wished, by Joe R. Christopher; The Cream of Queen, by Frank Floyd; and Further Gems from the Literature, by William F. Deeck. 3 ...
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    10,28 €


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