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  • Little House of Oxymorons
    Steven Carter
    This volume features well over 200 fresh and original oxymorons with commentaries-all with a satirical twist. As a satire, Little House of Oxymorons complements Steven Carter’s The New Devil’s Dictionary, a two-volume 'sequel' to Ambrose Bierce’s notorious The Devil’s Dictionary of a century ago. ...
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    44,97 €

  • Making the Detective Story American
    J K Van Dover / J.K. Van Dover
    This critical text examines the fiction of Earl Derr Biggers, S. S. Van Dine, and Dashiell Hammett during a crucial half-decade when they transformed the detective story. The characters they created, including Charlie Chan, Philo Vance, and the Continental Op, represented a new style of detective solving crimes in fresh ways. Their successes would push crime and detective fi...
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    72,04 €

  • Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future
    Robert Jacobs
    Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future presents an international collaboration of scholars and artists who examine multiple reactions of popular culture and the arts to the advent of nuclear weapons. Featuring both contemporary works of scholarship in several fields and works of contemporary artists grappling with what nuclear weapons have wrought, side by side, including Spenc...
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    156,40 €

  • Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives
    Robert G Weiner
    To say that graphic novels, comics, and other forms of sequential art have become a major part of popular culture and academia would be a vast understatement. Now an established component of library and archive collections across the globe, graphic novels are proving to be one of the last kinds of print publications actually gaining in popularity. Full of practical advice ...
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    58,77 €

  • Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future
    Robert Jacobs
    Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future presents an international collaboration of scholars and artists who examine multiple reactions of popular culture and the arts to the advent of nuclear weapons. Featuring both contemporary works of scholarship in several fields and works of contemporary artists grappling with what nuclear weapons have wrought, side by side, including Spenc...
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    63,67 €

  • Gothic Histories
    Andrew Hiscock
    In the middle of the eighteenth century the Gothic became the universal language of architecture, painting and literature, expressing a love not only of ruins, decay and medieval pageantry, but also the drug-induced monsters of the mind. By explaining the international dimension of Gothicism and dealing in detail with German, French and American authors, Gothic Histories demons...
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    44,68 €

  • Gothic Histories
    Clive Bloom
    In the middle of the eighteenth century the Gothic became the universal language of architecture, painting and literature, expressing a love not only of ruins, decay and medieval pageantry, but also the drug-induced monsters of the mind. By explaining the international dimension of Gothicism and dealing in detail with German, French and American authors, Gothic Histories dem...
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    161,11 €

  • Popular Ghosts
    Haunting has long been a compelling element in popular culture, and has become an influential category in academic engagements with politics, economics, and aesthetics. While recent scholarship has used psychoanalysis and the Gothic as frameworks with which to study haunting, this volume seeks to situate ghosts in the cultural imagination. The chapters in Popular Ghosts are uni...
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    63,63 €

  • Reading, writing and the influence of Harold Bloom
    Alan Rawes / Jonathon Shears
    Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom takes the work of the greatest living literary critic and discovers what it is like to read ’with’, ’against’ and ’beyond’ his work. ...
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    169,42 €

  • Ursula K. Le Guin’s Journey to Post-Feminism
    Amy M Clarke / Amy M. Clarke
    The first book-length treatment of Le Guin’s feminism, this text offers a career-spanning look at her engagement with modern gender theory and practice. During the 1970s, Le Guin experienced a paradigm shift to feminism, a change which had profound effects on her work. This critical examination explores the masculinist nature of her early writing and how her work changed bot...
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    42,88 €

  • Historical Dictionary of Film Noir
    Andrew Spicer
    Film noir-literally 'black cinema'-is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is considerable dispute about what are the shared features that classify a noir film, and therefore which films should be included in this category. These problems are partly caused because film noir is a...
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    250,70 €

  • Romanticism and Postromanticism
    Claudia Moscovici
    Claudia Moscovici asserts in Romanticism and Postromanticism that the Romantic heritage, far from being important only in a historical sense, has philosophical relevance and value for contemporary art and culture. With an emphasis on artistic tradition as a continuing source of inspiration and innovation, she touches upon each main branch of philosophy: aesthetics, epistemology...
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    60,36 €

  • The Universe of Oz
    The Wizard of Oz has captured the imagination of the public since publication of L. Frank Baum’s first book of the series in 1900. Oz has shaped the way we read children’s literature, view motion pictures and experience musicals. Oz has captured the scholarly imagination as well. The seventeen essays in this book address numerous questions of the boundaries between literatur...
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    42,72 €

  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    J.R.R. TOLKIEN: POCKET GUIDE A new guide to the life and work of J.R.R. Tolkien, the premier British fantasy author of the 20th century, and his great works: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. This guide is clearly written for the general reader, offering an all-round introduction to this hugely popular writer. EXTRACT FROM THE INTRODUCTION Philip To...
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    27,20 €

  • J.R.R. Tolkien
    Jeremy Mark Robinson
    J.R.R. TOLKIEN: THE BOOKS, THE FILMS, THE WHOLE CULTURAL PHENOMENON A book exploring the world of J.R.R. Tolkien, Britain’s premier fantasy author, in over 800 pages. Part one of this book focusses on J.R.R. Tolkien’s texts, principally those dealing with his ’secondary world’ of Middle-earth. Part two explores the 2001-03 Hollywood movies of The Lord of the Rings, with a s...
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    38,57 €

  • Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature
    Tony Burns
    This work challenges both the widely accepted view thatThe Dispossessed represents a new kind of literary utopia and the place of Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel in the histories of utopian/dystopian literature and science fiction. ...
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    67,85 €

  • A Violent Conscience
    Leonard Engel
    Mysteries and detective stories are among the most popular of books but the writers of such genre fiction suffer from a perception that their work is to be taken less seriously than so-called literary fiction. The novels of James Lee Burke, one of the most distinguished writers of crime novels, challenge that notion, as do the 12 essays in this collection. This work examin...
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    72,08 €

  • American Zombie Gothic
    Kyle William Bishop
    Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and slavery. The voodoo-based zombie films of the 1930s and ’40s reveal deep-seated racist attitudes and imperialist paranoia, but the contagious, cannibalistic zombie horde invasion narrative established by George A. Romero has even ...
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    28,24 €

  • Watchmen as Literature
    Sara J Van Ness / Sara J. Van Ness
    Watchmen has been hailed as the quintessential graphic novel and has spawned a body of literary criticism since its 1986 initial appearance in installments. This work explores the graphic novel’s reception in both popular and scholarly arenas and how the conceptual relationship between images and words affects the reading experience. Other topics include heroism as a stereot...
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    42,88 €

  • Reading Japan Cool
    John E Ingulsrud / John E. Ingulsrud / John EIngulsrud / Kate Allen
    The characters, the stories, and the sensibilities coming out of Japanese animation, manga, and video games are together called Japan Cool. The origins of the movement are in manga, the practices of the readers, the diversity of the titles, and the sheer number of works. ...
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    65,27 €

  • The Return Of The O’Mahony
    Harold Frederic
    ''The Return of the O’Mahony'' is a romantic fantasy novel written by Harold Frederic and originally published in 1893. The story follows the return of the O’Mahony, a legendary Irish hero, to his ancestral home in County Kerry after a long absence. The O’Mahony is accompanied by his loyal servant, a dwarf named Shemus, and his beautiful daughter, Eileen. As he settles back int...
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    35,38 €

  • The Wreck Of The Chancellor (1875)
    Jules Verne
    The Wreck Of The Chancellor is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1875. The story is set in the mid-19th century and follows the ill-fated voyage of the Chancellor, a British steamship bound for Australia. The ship is carrying a group of passengers, including the wealthy and arrogant John Ruby, his wife, and their young son. The crew is led by Captain John Silas Huntly, a skille...
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    34,35 €

  • The Maid And The Monk V3
    Walter Stanhope
    The Maid and the Monk V3: A Romantic Chronicle is a novel written by Walter Stanhope and first published in 1887. The book is a historical romance set in medieval times and follows the story of a young maid named Isabella who falls in love with a monk named Father Ambrose. The two are from very different worlds, and their love is forbidden by the church. However, they continue ...
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    33,31 €

  • Woodmyth And Fable (1905)
    Ernest Thompson Seton
    Woodmyth and Fable is a collection of animal stories and fables written by Ernest Thompson Seton in 1905. The book includes tales of animals such as the coyote, the wolf, the bear, and the rabbit, as well as fables with moral lessons. Seton, who was a naturalist and artist, drew on his experiences observing animals in the wild to create these stories. The book is written in a s...
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    29,10 €

  • The Giant Raft, Part 2
    Jules Verne
    The Giant Raft, Part 2: The Cryptogram is a science fiction novel written by Jules Verne and first published in 1882. It is the second part of a two-part series, following The Giant Raft, Part 1: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon. The story follows the adventures of a group of travelers who find themselves stranded on a giant raft in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. In this ...
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    26,98 €

  • The Gypsy Queen
    M. Y. Halidom / MYHalidom
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,26 €

  • Music in Middle-earth
    From the Grand Theme that the Ainur played before Ilûvatar at the beginning of the world, to the various songs and melodies performed by the characters of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the world that J.R.R. Tolkien created contains numerous references to song and music. Indeed, these songs form an integral part of the narrative. It is therefore surprising that little me...
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    30,31 €

  • After the Rapture
    Doctor of Ministry John H. Boyd
    You may be wondering if Jesus will return soon. You might have heard of the Rapture of the Church. Possibly, you even wonder what will happen after Jesus raptures His Church out of this world. This book answers a variety of important questions. What is the Age of Grace? What is the Time of the Gentiles? What will happen to the people on earth after the rapture? What will happen...
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    13,21 €

  • Making Murder
    Philip Simpson
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    94,92 €

  • The Invention of Evening
    Christopher R. Miller / Christopher RMiller
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    51,76 €