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  • E.X. Ferrars
    Elizabeth Sanders / Gina Macdonald
    E.X. Ferrars was one of the most popular and prolific British crime writers of the twentieth century. This literary companion is designed to introduce readers to the full range of possibilities inherent in E.X. Ferrars’s canon, connecting novels and short stories that share themes and strategies, and providing biographical data that yield insights into Ferrars’s interests an...
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    73,08 €

  • Queering the Gothic
    A first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from ’Frankenstein’ to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition. ...
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    29,75 €

  • Shakespeare and laughter
    Indira Ghose
    This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. It is the first study to focus on laughter, not comedy, arguing that since the early modern period a paradigm shift has taken place in our attitudes to laughter and investigates the role Shakespeare played in this connection. ...
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    29,60 €

  • Romantic Sobriety
    Orrin N C Wang
    Winner, 2011 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize, International Conference on RomanticismThis book explores the relationship among Romanticism, deconstruction, and Marxism by examining tropes of sensation and sobriety in a set of exemplary texts from Romantic literature and contemporary literary theory.Orrin N. C. Wang explains how themes of sensation and sobriety, along with Marxist-...
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    101,66 €

  • Dissolute Characters
    Bill McCormack / W. J. McCormack / WJMcCormack
    Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture, modernism and politics. ...
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    29,44 €

  • Make Mine a Mystery II
    Gary Niebuhr
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    105,54 €

  • Picturing Tolkien
    This group of new critical essays offers multidisciplinary analysis of director Peter Jackson’s spectacularly successful adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). Part One of the collection, 'Techniques of Structure and Story,' compares and contrasts the organizationa...
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    42,52 €

  • Lovecraft Annual No. 5 (2011)
    S. T. Joshi
    'Hippocampus Press has done the Lovecraftian community an immense favor by picking up the torch of published scholarship on H.P. Lovecraft.' -Grim Blogger Table of Contents: Locked Dimensions out of Reach: The Lost Stories of H. P. Lovecraft............J.-M. Rajala Cosmic Maenads and the Music of Madness: Lovecraft's Borrowings from the Greeks............John Salonia Blacks, B...
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    16,17 €

  • Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
    Jason Fisher
    Source criticism--analysis of a writer’s source material--has emerged as one of the most popular approaches in exploring the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Since Tolkien drew from many disparate sources, an understanding of these sources, as well as how and why he incorporated them, can enhance readers’ appreciation. This set of new essays by leading Tolkien scholars describes the ...
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    28,25 €

  • Murray Leinster
    Billee J. Stallings / Jo-an J. Evans
    Will F. Jenkins, known to science fiction fans by his penname Murray Leinster, was among the most prolific American writers of the 20th century. 'The Dean of Science Fiction,' as he was sometimes known, published more than 1,500 short stories and 100 books in a career spanning more than fifty years. This biography, written by his two youngest daughters, chronicles Murray Lei...
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    42,86 €

  • Dim-Remembered Stories
    Massimo Berruti
    The life and work of Robert Hayward Barlow (1918-1951) has received remarkably little study from scholars, who see in him only one of the acolytes (and the literary executor) of the great American supernaturalist H. P. Lovecraft. But, as this pioneering study by Italian scholar Massimo Berruti establishes, Barlow was a distinguished writer in his own right-the author of dozens ...
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    26,96 €

  • Shake ’em Up & They All Fall Out the Same
    Arnitia Walker
    As a licensed social worker, Arnitia Walker has seen it all. She’s met people from every walk of life-all trying to find their own way in this crazy world-but she’s paid particular attention to the other sex. In Shake ’Em Up & They All Fall Out the Same Anitia offers up a humorous, tongue-in-cheek catalog of the various types of men she’s known, including: Married - This ...
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    24,99 €

  • Shake ’em Up & They All Fall Out the Same
    Arnitia Walker
    As a licensed social worker, Arnitia Walker has seen it all. She’s met people from every walk of life-all trying to find their own way in this crazy world-but she’s paid particular attention to the other sex. In Shake ’Em Up & They All Fall Out the Same Anitia offers up a humorous, tongue-in-cheek catalog of the various types of men she’s known, including: Married - This ...
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    14,21 €

  • The Ecological Augury in the Works of JRR Tolkien
    Liam Campbell
    A new death for the old world, winds of industrial change that gust across green hills and dales, machines and callous hearts that dig deep into the ecosystems of Earth as trees crash upon the shrinking forest floors and ecological devastation is visited upon the land. This is the darkest hour of Middle-earth as presented in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings - how curiousl...
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    30,27 €

  • Heinlein’s Juvenile Novels
    C.W. Sullivan
    Robert A. Heinlein’s early, juvenile science fiction novels appeared between 1947 and 1963, just as America was emerging from World War II and entering the space age, and are among his richest and most warmly remembered books. This comprehensive work defines the many names, terms and cultural references that appear in Heinlein’s juvenile novels, noting where they are found, ...
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    43,00 €

  • Reading Laurell K. Hamilton
    Candace Benefiel
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    76,26 €

  • The Matrix Reformed
    Bart Cusveller / Maarten Verkerk / Marc De Vries
    The Matrix Reformed provides an analysis of both science fiction and the contemporary adoration of technology from a Christian point-of-view, weaving a discussion of issues in religion, philosophy, and ethics in major sci-fi works (e.g., The Matrix, Star Wars, and Star Trek) with the insights and claims of Kierkegaard, Descartes, and Herman Dooyeweerd. 3 ...
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    15,55 €

  • Writing Postcolonial France
    Fiona Barclay
    This book is the first literary study to examine how France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa. It examines the form assumed by the ghosts of the past in fiction from a range of genres (travel writing, detective fiction, life writing, historical fiction, women’s writing) produce...
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    132,08 €

  • An Epicure in the Terrible
    When An Epicure in the Terrible first appeared in 1991, commemorating the centennial of H. P. Lovecraft’s birth, it was hailed as a significant contribution to Lovecraft studies. Its thirteen original essays, along with a lengthy biocritical introduction by S. T. Joshi, contained penetrating work by leading authorities in the field. Among them were Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.’s pionee...
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    27,06 €

  • Murder, Manners, and Mystery
    Peter C. Erb
    Highlighting popular works by P.D. James, Colin Dexter, Ian Pears and Umberto Eco, among others, this subtle and intelligently written monograph examines the treatment of religion in the genre of contemporary murder mystery novels, and the implications of this phenomenon for understanding Christian thought in a post-Christian society. The book begins by considering the critical...
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    33,87 €

  • Arda Reconstructed
    Douglas Charles Kane
    In this book the author reveals a tapestry woven by Christopher Tolkien from different portions of his father’s work that is often quite mind-boggling, with inserts that seemed initially to have been editorial inventions shown to have come from some other remote portion of Tolkien’s vast body of work. ...
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    37,43 €

  • If You’re Cracked, You’re Happy
    Mark Arnold
    'Sick beat the pants off Cracked when they were in competition.'- Joe Simon,former Editor of Sick magazine and Captain America co-creator'A book on Cracked; a sure-fire way to land you on the New York Times bestseller list!' - Andy Simmon, former National Lampoon and Cracked Editor'It sounds like an interesting and formidable journey you’ve taken on. The Cracked history is wort...
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    41,18 €

  • Little House of Imaginary Distinctions
    Steven Carter
    Look around you. The world is more homogenous than you think. Far too often, distinctions among people, places, and things are matters of degree rather than kind. Many are illusory. As satire, Little House of Imaginary Distinctions is meant to complement Steven Carter’s previous book, Little House of Oxymorons, published by Hamilton Books in 2010. ...
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    44,61 €

  • The 21st Century Superhero
    Superhero films are one of the most enduring genres of cinema, and their popularity is only increasing in the 21st century. These ten critical essays explore the phenomenon through the lenses of numerous academic disciplines, and cover topics such as the role of globalization in the formation of superhero narratives, the shifting nature of masculinity and femininity in the s...
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    42,91 €

  • Warriors of the Tao
    Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature is one of the world’s leading journals of science fiction. Warriors of the Tao includes 16 essays from this landmark (but little-known) review, distilling its witty and sometimes controversial dialogue about fantastic writing during the last third of a century, including such topics as: the NON-sf writing of Philip K. Dick, se...
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    23,35 €

  • If You’re Cracked, You’re Happy
    Mark Arnold
    This is Part 2!'No one was ever a fan of Cracked. We would buy Mad every month, but about two weeks later we would get anxious for new material. We would tell ourselves, ’OK, we are not going to buy Cracked. Never again!’ And we’d hold out for a while, but then as the month dragged on it just became, ’OK, I guess I’ll buy Cracked.’ Then you’d bring it home, and immediately you’...
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    41,14 €

  • Old Man’s Gold and Other Short Stories
    Ovid Pierce
    The four novels of Pierce, published between 1953 and 1974, all won national attention and critical acclaim, and many critics believe that the importance of this writer will continue to grow. This collection of stories, written in the 1940s, show how quickly a gifted author learns and develops his craft. The collection, taken as a whole, reveals a remarkable portrait of a time ...
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    44,93 €

  • Sense of Wonder
    SENSE OF WONDER is a broad, inexpensive, single-volume anthology designed to give students a sense both of literature and history; the book includes canonical works, stories written in response to those works, and essays on major themes and topics in the field. The book will facilitate a variety of different types of speculative fiction course, whether the course is focused on ...
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    89,19 €

  • The Art of Indirection in British Espionage Fiction
    Robert Lance Snyder
    In contrast to the classical detective story, the spy novel tends to be considered a suspect, somewhat subversive genre. While previous studies have focused on its historical, thematic, and ideological dimensions, this critical work examines British espionage fiction’s unique narrative form, which is typically elliptical, oblique, and recursive. Featured works include eighte...
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    57,46 €

  • 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors
    Bernard Drew
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    112,55 €


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