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  • Dream and Literary Creation in Women’s Writings in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
    Isabelle Hervouet
    This edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in women’s writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from the end of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century with a strong focus on the Romantic period and particularly on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. ...
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    180,18 €

  • La ciudad sin límites.
    Alejandro Susti
    El lector hallará en este libro un examen de los diversos modos con los que la literatura peruana de ficción y no ficción ha abordado la representación de la capital del Perú a lo largo de casi un siglo. Así, a través de la revisión crítica de novelas, cuentos, crónicas de costumbres y artículos periodísticos producidos por algunos de los principales autores peruanos, en este l...
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    20,45 €

  • Adapting Superman
    John Darowski
    Almost immediately after his first appearance in comic books in June 1938, Superman began to be adapted to other media. The subsequent decades have brought even more adaptations of the Man of Steel, his friends, family, and enemies in film, television, comic strip, radio, novels, video games, and even a musical. The rapid adaptation of the Man of Steel occurred before the chara...
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    58,76 €

  • The Great Illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe
    Jessica Slayton / Tony Magistrale
    An introduction to some of the most important illustrators producing work inspired by the tales and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe from their earliest iterations in the 1880s to the present day ...
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    181,94 €

  • The Mythopoeic Code of Tolkien
    Jyrki Korpua
    J. R. R. Tolkien is arguably the most influential fantasy writer of all time--his world building and epic mythology have changed Western audiences’ imaginations and the entire fantasy genre. This book is the first wide-ranging Christian Platonic reading on Tolkien’s fiction. This analysis, written for scholars and general Tolkien enthusiasts alike, discusses how his fiction is ...
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    57,56 €

  • The Brothers Karamzov
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    The Brothers Karamazov also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th-century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a spiritual, theological drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, judgment, ...
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    45,21 €

  • The Idiot
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and gu...
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    38,91 €

  • Mark Gruenwald and the Star Spangled Symbolism of Captain America, 1985-1995
    Jason Olsen
    From 1985 to 1995, Mark Gruenwald was the head writer for Captain America. During this decade, Gruenwald wrote some of the most essential stories in Captain America’s history and guided the comic through an eventful period of both world history and comic book history. This book dissects the influence of the world at large on Gruenwald’s stories and the subsequent influence of G...
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    57,22 €

  • Is Superman Circumcised?
    Roy Schwartz
    Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world--and he’s Jewish! Introduced in June 1938, the Man of Steel was created by two Jewish teens, Jerry Siegel, the son of immigrants from Eastern Europe, and Joe Shuster, an immigrant. They based their hero’s origin story on Moses, his strength on Samson, his mission on the gol...
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    66,44 €

  • Césped seco
    Joaquín Fabrellas
    Joaquín Fabrellas Jiménez (Jaén -1975). Realizó estudios de Filología Inglesa e Historia del Arte. Se licenció en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Granada y actualmente ejerce como profesor.La amplia labor poética de Joaquín Fabrellas ha sido premiada en varias ocasiones. Por su primer poemario, Estertor en las piedras (Ayuntamiento de Jaén, 2003), obtuvo el Premio de ...
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    15,00 €

  • Television’s Outlander
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    Over its five seasons on the air, the televised series Outlander has combined romance, adventure, history, and time travel into a classic saga of love, war, and the ties that bind family together. After surviving the 1746 uprising of the Scottish Highlanders, the intrigue-ridden Paris of Charles Stuart, and a sea voyage across the Caribbean, Claire and Jamie Fraser finally sett...
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    58,80 €

  • Under the Literary Microscope
    A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation and the socioeconomic and political spheres. ...
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    143,54 €

  • Caricature and National Character
    Christopher J. Gilbert
    Examines wartime political cartoons—with particular emphasis on the works of James Montgomery Flagg, Dr. Seuss, Ollie Harrington, and Ann Telnaes—to examine how, when, and why graphic caricatures serve to illuminate the US national character. ...
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    143,57 €

  • Korean War Comic Books
    Leonard Rifas
    Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward. Comparing these comics with events that inspired them offers a deeper understanding of the comics industry, America’s 'forgotten war,' and the anti-comics movement, championed by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who criticized their brutalization of the imagination....
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    73,55 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Shelley
    One of the BBC’s ’100 Novels That Shaped Our World’.200 years after it was first published,Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has stood the test of time as a gothic masterpiece-a classic work of humanity and horror that blurs the line between man and monster... The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a ...
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    16,30 €

  • Avengers in Video Games
    Blair Farrell
    For decades, Marvel Comics’ superhero group the Avengers have captured the imagination of millions, whether in comics, multi-billion dollar grossing films or video games. Similar to the chronology of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Avengers video games first started with titles driven by single characters, like Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor and Captain America. Over time, the gam...
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    57,50 €

  • Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction
    In order to demonstrate that speculative fiction provides a valuable contribution to the discussion about the challenges of the Anthropocene, Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction investigates a range of novels whose subject matter pertains to various aspects of the Anthropocene. These include the destruction and protection of the natural environment, the relationsh...
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    142,81 €

  • Relatando
    F. Julio Donoso
    Que Julio Donoso haya optado por titular su colección de relatos yuxtapuestos con una forma verbal como el gerundio quizás pueda resultar extraño, pero es consecuencia directa del atrevimiento del autor. Donoso está relatando, nos relata a nosotros más que como escritor casi como una suerte de bululú. Y si resaltamos esto es porque el autor, o más acertado sería decir el narrad...
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    15,50 €

  • Reading the Cozy Mystery
    Phyllis M. Betz
    With their intimate settings, subdued action and likeable characters, cozy mysteries are rarely seen as anything more than light entertainment. The cozy, a subgenre of crime fiction, has been historically misunderstood and often overlooked as the subject of serious study. This anthology brings together a groundbreaking collection of essays that examine the cozy mystery from a r...
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    57,42 €

  • Speculations of War
    Annette M. Magid
    Late 19th century science fiction stories and utopian treatises related to morals and attitudes often focused on economic, sociological and, at times Marxist ideas. More than a century later, science fiction commonly depicts the inherent dangers of capitalism and imperialism. Examining a variety of conflicts from the Civil War through the post-9/11 era, this collection of new e...
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    79,33 €

  • Printing terror
    Michael Goodrum / Philip Smith
    Printing Terror argues that horror comics of the Cold War primarily concern white male victimhood and the monstrosity of the gendered and/or racialised other. ...
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    157,01 €

  • Dragon Ball Z 'It’s Over 9,000!' Visioni del mondo in collisione
    Derek Padula
    Dragon Ball Z è profondo. Scopri la psicologia che cambia la vita di Goku e Vegeta.'Mi ha risvegliato e commosso. Solo oggi comprendo appieno quello che ho affrontato col mio personaggio: una catarsi.'-Gianluca Iacono, doppiatore di Vegeta in Italia'Questo libro ti renderà un super fan! Infatti è stato il primo libro al mondo che ha trattato l’argomento Dragon Ball in una manier...
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    16,49 €

  • Star-Spangled Panties
    Carol A. Strickland / Carol AStrickland
    She’s the Amazing Amazon! The celebrated champion of her people!She’s WONDER WOMAN!And she’s the greatest superhero this world has ever seen.A lifelong fan lays out WW’s legend for those who want to know her better. Brush up on the important people, equipment, and lessons that Princess Diana has shown us through the years. Lively chapters show how she came to be, her powers, he...
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    10,70 €

  • Tolkien and the Classical World
    Hamish Williams
    While scholars have often cited the influence of medieval texts and society on J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal fantasy creations, the role of the classical world - the literature and thought of ancient Greece and Rome - has received far less attention. This volume of essays explores various ways in which Tolkien’s literary creations were shaped by classical epic, myth, poetry, history...
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    39,70 €

  • Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy
    Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children’s agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children’s spectacular dreams and hopeful realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belo...
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    149,69 €

  • Heroes Masked and Mythic
    Christopher Wood
    Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art and literature for centuries, and today are reinvented in the modern superhero. What does Iron Man have to do with the Homeric hero Odysseus? How does the African warrior Memnon compa...
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    57,30 €

  • Dragon Ball Z 'It’s Over 9,000!' Visioni del mondo in collisione
    Derek Padula
    Dragon Ball di Akira Toriyama è la serie anime e manga più conosciuta al mondo e ha appassionato milioni di fan da ogni parte del globo. La leggendaria rivalità degli ultimi due Saiyan dal sangue puro, Goku e Vegeta, è l’esempio per antonomasia di un eterno conflitto che ispira i fan a superare i propri limiti.Con le prefazioni di Ryō Horikawa e Gianluca Iacono, rispettivamente...
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    12,08 €

  • South of the Future
    Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas. ...
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    127,10 €

  • Becoming Utopian
    Tom Moylan
    A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires activists, artists, and citizens alike. In this book Tom Moylan - one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies - explores the utopian process in its individual and collective trajectory from dream to realization. Drawing on theorists such as Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway and Alain Badiou and sc...
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    160,52 €

  • EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century
    Sue Edney
    Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material ecocritical methodology to examine uncanny vegetal agency. Monster plants, mystical trees, fairy groves, grim lakes and talking flowers are among the topics, seen through prose, poetry and painting. ...
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    157,44 €


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