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  • Sink or Swim
    Louise Harris
    Have you ever faced something that you felt was insurmountable? Once you figured out a solution, did you realize that the obstacle was necessary even though it was difficult to endure at the time. The authors of the stories in Sink or Swim all have faced obstacles, some life-threatening. When you read these stories, you will understand that obstacles in life are important. The ...
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    16,53 €

  • On Eagles’ Wings
    Anna Thayer
    If you are at all familiar with Tolkien’s work, then Bilbo’s cry – proclaiming the arrival of Eagles – will be no stranger to you. Indeed, these plot-armoured birds are somewhat of a hallmark of the Master of Middle-Earth, one rejoiced over and lampooned in equal measure by both lovers and critics of his writing.But they are misunderstood. Tolkien’s Eagles cannot be taken liter...
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    22,82 €

  • Theology and Science Fiction
    James F. McGrath / James FMcGrath
    What is the difference between a god and a powerful alien? Can an android have a soul, or be considered a person with rights? Can we imagine biblical stories being retold in the distant future on planets far from Earth? Whether your interest is in Christianity in the future, or the Jedi in the present--and whether your interest in the Jedi is focused on real-world adherents or ...
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    17,08 €

  • War Noir
    Sarah Trott
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    92,62 €

  • Behind the Cape
    Rob Jefferson
    Super hero movies have never been so popular•Superman is at the center of this frenzy•The #1 search by kids 13-18 since June of 2015 is Superman ...
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    14,38 €

  • May the Armed Forces Be with You
    Stephen Dedman
    Science fiction and the United States military often inhabit the same imaginative space. Weapons technology has taken inspiration from science fiction, from the bazooka and the atomic bomb to weaponized lasers and drones. Star-spangled superheroes sold war bonds in comic books sent to GIs during World War II, and adorned the noses of bombers. The same superheroes now appear ...
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    42,75 €

  • The Science Fiction Mythmakers
    Jennifer Simkins
    A literary genre that pervades 21st-century popular culture, science fiction creates mythologies that make statements about humanity’s place in the universe and embody an intersection of science, religion and philosophy. This book considers the significance of this confluence through an examination of myths in the writings of H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick a...
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    42,95 €

  • Superwomen
    Carolyn Cocca
    Over the last 75 years, superheroes have been portrayed most often as male, heterosexual, white, and able-bodied. Today, a time when many of these characters are billion-dollar global commodities, there are more female superheroes, more queer superheroes, more superheroes of color, and more disabled superheroes--but not many more. Superwomen investigates how and why female sup...
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    226,03 €

  • Postmodern Paradigm and Salman Rushdie’s Fiction
    Dr Shaikh Suhel Samad
    The book highlights that postmodern fiction and more so Rushdie’s fiction is concerned with: 1. A preoccupation with viability of systems and representations. 2. The decentring of the subject and the inscription of multiple fictive selves. 3. Narrative fragmentation, narrative reflexivity and narratives which doubleback on their own pre-suppositions. 4. An open-ended play with ...
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    16,97 €

  • How Superheroes Model Community
    Nathan Miczo
    How Superheroes Model Community examines superheroes as a community engaged in protecting the public sphere. Nathan Miczo highlights and explores the interpersonal and communicative practices that are necessary to being a member of such a community. ...
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    114,19 €

  • Alice in Transmedia Wonderland
    Anna Kérchy
    Part of Alice’s appeal is her ambiguity, which makes possible a range of interpretations in adapting Lewis Carroll’s classic Wonderland stories to various media. Popular re-imaginings of Alice and her topsy-turvy world reveal many ways of eliciting enchantment and shaping make-believe. Late 20th century and 21st century adaptations interact with the source texts and with e...
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    58,70 €

  • The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub
    John C Tibbetts / John C. Tibbetts
    Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre’s explicit nature. For him, the Gothic style is to be created and recreated in a changing world--Faustian pacts, buried secrets, haunted places, ghosts, vampires and succubi take on strange new shapes and effects. Stephen King describes Straub’s style as 'a...
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    42,72 €

  • Pariah in the Desert
    Todd S Garth / Todd S. Garth / Todd SGarth
    The first book in English on canonical Spanish American writer Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878–Argentina 1936), Pariah in the Desert examines his works through the theoretical lens of the heroic and the complementary phenomenon of the monstrous. This focus on reveals the ethical coherence galvanizing the extraordinary range of Quiroga’s work and its engagement with multiples disc...
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    108,33 €

  • New International Voices in Ecocriticism
    Oppermann
    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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    65,51 €

  • EcoGothic
    This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. The book’s focus is from the late eighteenth century to the present day, via consideration of a number of national and global contexts and different media including short stories, novels and films. ...
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    29,71 €

  • Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
    Focusing on dystopian novels featuring a female protagonist, this collection explores the liminal nature of a young woman contending with societal and governmental threats at the same time that she is navigating the treacherous waters of young adulthood. Essays on writers that include Libba Bray, Scott Westerfeld, Tahereh Mafi, Veronica Roth, Ally Condie, and Suzanne Collins s...
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    93,64 €

  • The War of the Worlds
    Peter J. Beck
    First published in 1897, H.G. Wells’s alien invasion narrative The War of the Worlds was a landmark work of science fiction and one that continues to be adapted and referenced in the 21st century. Chronicling the novel’s contexts, its origins and its many multi-media adaptations, this book is a complete biography of the life - and the afterlives - of The War of the Worlds. Exp...
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    205,83 €

  • Gothic death 1740-1914
    Andrew Smith
    Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 and 1914. ...
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    157,65 €

  • Gender(ed) Identities
    This diverse, cross-disciplinary volume examines gender construction in children’s and YA literature, complementing and updating scholarship on this topic via a rich examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. Across genres, eras, and national literatures, the book explores how readers encounter unorthodox as well as traditional ...
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    254,19 €

  • Lovecraft Annual No. 10 (2016)
    S. T. Joshi
    Table of ContentsLovecraft and Egypt: A Closer ExaminationDuncan NorrisForgotten Influence: A. Merritt's 'The Face in the Abyss' and H. P. Lovecraft's 'The Mound'Peter LeviEssential Saltes: Lovecraft's Witchcraft John SaloniaH. P. Lovecraft's Weird Body Alison SperlingQueer Geometry and Higher Dimensions: Mathematics in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft Daniel M. L...
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    16,20 €

  • Stephen King and Philosophy
    Haunting us with such unforgettable stories as The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, Salem’s Lot, Carrie, The Green Mile, and Pet Sematary, Stephen King has been an anchor of American horror, science fiction, psychological thrillers, and suspense for more than forty years. His characters have brought chills to our spines and challenged our notions of reality while leaving us i...
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    17,14 €

  • Peruvian Short Stories
    Dorila A. Marting / Dorila aMarting
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    18,50 €

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel
    Lisa Rodensky
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    65,28 €

  • Peter Kuper
    Kent Worcester
    Peter Kuper (b. 1958), one of America’s leading cartoonists, has created work recognized around the world. His art has graced the pages and covers of numerous magazines and newspapers, including Time, the New Yorker, Mother Jones, and the New York Times. He is also a longtime contributor to Mad magazine, where he has been writing and drawing Spy vs. Spy for nearly two decades. ...
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    158,31 €

  • Heroines of Comic Books and Literature
    Bajac-Carter
    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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    47,34 €

  • Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics
    Dan Hassler-Forest
    From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres offer highly detailed political worlds beyond capitalism. This book examines the complex ways in which these popular storyworlds offer valuable conceptual tools for anti-capitalist participatory politics. ...
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    171,98 €

  • Scott’s Shadow
    Ian Duncan
    Scott’s Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation. Ian Duncan shows how Walter Scott became the central figure in these developments, and how he helped redefine the novel as the principal modern genre for the representatio...
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    42,66 €

  • When Life Gives You Lemons
    Christy Larson
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    32,02 €

  • Alien Imaginations
    Ulrike Küchler
    As both an extra-terrestrial and a terrestrial migrant, the alien provides a critical framework to help us understand the interactions between cultures and to explore the transgressive force of travel over geographical, cultural or linguistic borders. Offering a perspective on the alien that connects to scholarship on immigration and globalization, Alien Imaginations brings tog...
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    64,05 €

  • Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics
    Dan Hassler-Forest
    From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres offer highly detailed political worlds beyond capitalism. This book examines the complex ways in which these popular storyworlds offer valuable conceptual tools for anti-capitalist participatory politics. ...
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    57,15 €