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  • Literatura y sociedad en el Perú: la novela indigenista
    Antonio Cornejo Polar
    Literatura y sociedad en el Perú: la novela indigenista es un libro medular para comprender la fecunda dimensión de las literaturas heterogéneas. Con una gran capacidad de síntesis, Antonio Cornejo Polar traza el desarrollo del indigenismo en el Perú y estudia el impacto del referente en las novelas de Arguedas y de Alegría. Además, hace suya una larga tradición que proviene de...
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    26,00 €

  • Dorothy L. Sayers
    Eric Sandberg
    Dorothy L. Sayers was one of the ''Queens of Crime.'' Alongside writers like Agatha Christie, she perfected the whodunnit, but also used the genre to explore social, ethical, and emotional matters. Her characters, particularly Lord Peter Wimsey and his investigative partner Harriet Vane, struggle with the complexities of life and love in a rapidly changing world while solving s...
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    73,16 €

  • Drawing the Past, Volume 1
    Dorian L Alexander
    Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Dorian L. Alexander, Max Bledstein, Peter Cullen Bryan, Stephen Connor, Matthew J. Costello, Martin Flanagan, Michael Fuchs, Michael Goodrum, Bridget Keown, Kaleb Knoblach, Christina M. Knopf, Martin Lund, Jordan Newton, Stefan Rabitsch, Maryanne Rhett, and Philip Smith History has always been a matter of arranging evidence into a narrative, bu...
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    42,76 €

  • Drawing the Past, Volume 2
    Dorian L Alexander
    Contributions by Dorian L. Alexander, Chris Bishop, David Budgen, Lewis Call, Lillian Céspedes González, Dominic Davies, Sean Eedy, Adam Fotos, Michael Goodrum, Simon Gough, David Hitchcock, Robert Hutton, Iain A. MacInnes, Malgorzata Olsza, Philip Smith, Edward Still, and Jing Zhang In Drawing the Past, Volume 2: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World, contributor...
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    141,90 €

  • Drawing the Past, Volume 2
    Dorian L Alexander
    Contributions by Dorian L. Alexander, Chris Bishop, David Budgen, Lewis Call, Lillian Céspedes González, Dominic Davies, Sean Eedy, Adam Fotos, Michael Goodrum, Simon Gough, David Hitchcock, Robert Hutton, Iain A. MacInnes, Malgorzata Olsza, Philip Smith, Edward Still, and Jing Zhang In Drawing the Past, Volume 2: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World, contributor...
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    42,50 €

  • Drawing the Past, Volume 1
    Dorian L Alexander
    Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Dorian L. Alexander, Max Bledstein, Peter Cullen Bryan, Stephen Connor, Matthew J. Costello, Martin Flanagan, Michael Fuchs, Michael Goodrum, Bridget Keown, Kaleb Knoblach, Christina M. Knopf, Martin Lund, Jordan Newton, Stefan Rabitsch, Maryanne Rhett, and Philip Smith History has always been a matter of arranging evidence into a narrative, bu...
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    142,16 €

  • On Writing and Worldbuilding
    Timothy Hickson
    Following the immense success of Volume I with over 35,000 copies sold, On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume II brings a host of new topics to table in even more detail and depth. Writing advice tends to be full of ’rules’ and ’tips’ which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. Aimed at specific, applicable, and practical discussions, from writing fight scenes to...
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    15,96 €

  • Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature
    Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez
    The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia-from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali. ...
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    180,72 €

  • The Villain’s Journey
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    The villain’s journey is rare in popular culture--most characters are fully-formed tyrants with little to no story arc. However, a few particularly epic series take the time to develop complex villains, including Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Increasingly, villains’ origin stories have found new popularity...
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    57,39 €

  • The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829
    Christina Morin
    A compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. ...
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    35,72 €

  • Escrito por brujas
    Antonio Ballesteros González
    A través de un fascinante periplo, Escrito por brujas recorre la vida y las obras de autoras decimonónicas representativas en el ámbito de lo fantástico y lo sobrenatural, como, entre otras, Mary Shelley (creadora de Frankenstein) y las novelistas góticas inglesas, las románticas alemanas, Charlotte y Emily Brontë, las escritoras fantásticas victorianas, las teósofas (Madame Bl...
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    20,79 €

  • Dis-Orienting Planets
    Isiah Lavender
    Contributions by Suparno Banerjee, Cait Coker, Jeshua Enriquez, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Malisa Kurtz, Stephanie Li, Bradford Lyau, Uppinder Mehan, Graham J. Murphy, Baryon Tensor Posadas, Amy J. Ransom, Robin Anne Reid, Haerin Shin, Stephen Hong Sohn, Takayuki Tatsumi, and Timothy J. Yamamura Isiah Lavender III’s Dis-Orienting Planets amplifies critical issues surroun...
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    50,03 €

  • English Magic and Imperial Madness
    Peter D Mathews
    Regency England was a pivotal time of political uncertainty, with a changing monarchy, the Napoleonic Wars, and a population explosion in London. In Susanna Clarke’s fantasy novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, the era is also witness to the unexpected return of magic. Locating the consequences of this eruption of magical unreason within the context of England’s imperial his...
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    57,66 €

  • Force of the Umbrella Academy
    Lisann Anders
    Even as the major superhero film franchises appear to be exhausting their runs The Umbrella Academy demonstrates that the superhero genre is still extremely effective at creating role models with lasting psychological resonance and allegories with extraordinary emotional impact. These essays give a voice to the misunderstood family members of The Umbrella Academy in the comic b...
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    57,66 €

  • Speculative Modernism
    James Reitter / Robert Stauffer / William Gillard
    Speculative modernists--that is, British and American writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror during the late 19th and early 20th centuries--successfully grappled with the same forces that would drive their better-known literary counterparts to existential despair. Building on the ideas of the 19th-century Gothic and utopian movements, these speculative writers anticipat...
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    57,36 €

  • Mid-century gothic
    Lisa Mullen
    Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with optimism about the future. By reassessing the novels, films, visual culture and technologies of the period, the book argues that gothicism itself was redefined by the upstart objects of modernity. ...
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    35,91 €

  • Hounded
    Vince Stadon
    'I think my wife might be right. I am going slightly mad.' Hounded is an escape from the anxiety of reaching a half-century, written during the pandemic of 2020 and into the spring of 2021, during which comedy writer Vince Stadon experienced every film, TV, audio drama, spoken word reading, documentary, stage play, pastiche, graphic novel, animation, kids cartoon, and PC game v...
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    18,39 €

  • Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton
    John C Tibbetts
    This is a critical study of the great British man of letters G.K. Chesterton, devoted to the novels, stories and essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination. Everything is different in the dark, wrote Chesterton; perhaps you don’t know how terrible a truth that is. Chesterton’s use of the theme of gargoyles provides the thematic structure of the book. It cove...
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    80,51 €

  • Nineteenth Century Detective Fiction
    Leroy Lad Panek
    In English and American cultures, detective fiction has a long and illustrious history. Its origins can be traced back to major developments in Anglo-American law, like the concept of circumstantial evidence and the rise of lawyers as heroic figures. Edgar Allen Poe’s writings further fueled this cultural phenomenon, with the use of enigmas and conundrums in his detective stori...
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    79,57 €

  • Idios kosmos. Claves para Philip K. Dick.
    Pablo Capanna
    A casi cuarenta años de su muerte, la fama de Philip K. Dick ha crecido tan desmesuradamente como la trama de una de sus novelas. Dick es uno de los pocos escritores de la ciencia ficción que no necesitan ser presentados, porque trascienden al género. Para muchos, él es quien mejor lo representa. Películas como Blade Runner de Scott, Total Recall de Verhoeven, Minority Report d...
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    16,01 €

  • El Señor de la Tarde. Un ensayo sobre Cordwainer Smith.
    Pablo Capanna
    Cordwainer Smith fue uno de los autores más deslumbrantes de la Ciencia Ficción de todos los tiempos. Creador de un universo único y coherente, imaginó una civilización (la saga de la instrumentalidad) que se extendería a lo largo de 15.000 años. Planteó ideas audaces e inquietantes por ejemplo, la modificación y la creación genética de seres humanos; poseedor de una poética in...
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    16,00 €

  • The Gallant Edith Bratt
    Bunting Nancy / Hamill-Keays Seamus
    Who was Edith Bratt? Millions saw Hollywood’s fantasy version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s one and only love, Edith Bratt, in the 2019 movie, Tolkien. Fact, though, is stranger than fiction, and more interesting. Edith’s story reveals a gallant heroine suffering under 'The Shadow of the Past.' Edith was Ronald’s 'lover,' and much like her mother, Edith risked all for the man she loved. ...
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    30,45 €

  • Book Club Companion #1
    Eva Sandor
    Get straight to the good stuff and boost your book club’s fun quotient today!Get your friends talking with over 100 suggestions for lively discussions- customized to each individual chapter of the intricately twisted comic fantasy FOOL’S PROOF by Eva Sandor. BOOK CLUB COMPANION #1 features 54 concise chapter summaries, with customized questions for each and every one. Chat, ban...
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    5,70 €

  • Judge, Jury and Executioner
    Alicia M Goodman
    Since the Punisher’s first appearance in the pages of Spider-Man #129, the character has become one of the most popular and controversial figures in Marvel’s vast universe. The Punisher represents one of the most recognizable types of anti-heroes. His iconic skull insignia stands for a unique type of justice: protecting the innocent while violently eliminating everyone he sees ...
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    57,61 €

  • Polyptych
    Reginald Wiebe
    Through each of its chapters, ’Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics’ examines the complex dynamics of adapting serialized texts. The transmedial adaptation of collaborative and unstable texts does not lend itself to the same strategies as other, more static adaptations such as novels or plays. Building off the foundational work of Linda Hutcheon and Gérard Genette, Pol...
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    54,34 €

  • Tess of The D’Urbervilles
    Thomas Hardy
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    24,37 €

  • Neo-Gothic Narratives
    Sarah E Maier
    ’Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times. ...
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    57,63 €

  • South of the Future
    Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas. ...
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    42,16 €

  • La Galatea, una novela de novelas
    Juan Ramón Muñoz Sánchez
    Situada en la tradición de la novela pastoril española y en deuda tanto con la Arcadia de Jacopo Sannazaro como con la lírica eclógica clásica y moderna, La Galatea es un cercado laberinto de amor y de poesía y un lazo de narraciones. Es, ciertamente, una novela de novelas en la que, sobre un relato primario esencialmente pastoril que oficia de hilo conductor, se suspenden, en ...
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    14,50 €

  • Sara Paretsky
    Cynthia Hamilton / Cynthia S. Hamilton / Cynthia SHamilton
    This is the first book-length study of Sara Paretsky’s detective fiction. Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. ...
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    37,16 €


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