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  • Wild Romanticism
    Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic and ecological idea.   ...
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    69,31 €

  • Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative
    This collection explores the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in key narratives written in the second decade of the 21st century. From a critical posthumanist perspective the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic choices these authors make to depict the posthuman and its aftereffects. ...
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    69,18 €

  • Jean-François Vilar
    Margaret Atack
    Jean-François Vilar (1947-2014) was a leading exponent of political crime fiction in France in the 1980s and 1990s. Paris, Prague, art and ’anti-art’ from surrealism to Jacques Monory, 19th and 20th century revolutionary politics and their cortege of ever-present pasts, from the French Revolution to the Algerian War - these are only some of the drivers of his highly original no...
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    17,70 €

  • Adapting the Canon
    Adapting the Canon brings together some of the most recent and exciting research in the growing field of adaptation studies, charting the passage of canonical texts across time, cultures and different media. Spanning several Humanities disciplines, the essays in this volume explore key questions about what adaptation means for the canonical work, focusing on texts adapted into ...
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    23,35 €

  • Mary Shelley and Europe
    Antonella Braida
    Mary Shelley in Europe studies the European background of Mary Shelley’s works and their reception. This two-fold approach is inspired by Mary Shelley dans son œuvre, Jean de Palacio’s seminal work that has remained untranslated in English. The essays in the volume bring new insights on editing and establishing the canon of Mary Shelley’s works; they investigate her interest in...
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    18,74 €

  • THE TRAGEDY AT CAMBRIA
    Sherrie J. Lyons
    The Tragedy at Cambria, a three-act play written in rhyming iambic pentameter, tells a story of love, deception, and power. In the medieval kingdom of Cambria, aging King John faces a grave decision. His forebearers created extremely strict laws regarding unwed pregnancy, and now a sixteen-year-old girl, Plain Jane, is guilty of being with child. Either Jane or the baby must di...
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    19,33 €

  • The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television, 2d ed.
    John Kenneth Muir
    It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a complete guide to over 50 years of superheroes on screen! This expanded and updated edition of the 2004 award-winning encyclopedia covers important developments in the popular genre; adds new shows such as Heroes and Zoom; includes the latest films featuring icons like Superman, Spiderman and Batman; and covers even more types of superheroes...
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    60,17 €

  • Eudora Welty and Mystery
    Jacob Agner
    Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Katie Berry Frye, Michael Kreyling, Andrew B. Leiter, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, Michael Pickard, Harriet Pollack, and Victoria Richard Eudora Welty’s ingenious play with readers’ expectations made her a cunning writer, a paramount modernist, a short story artist of the first rank, and a remarkable literary innova...
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    158,29 €

  • Eudora Welty and Mystery
    Jacob Agner
    Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Katie Berry Frye, Michael Kreyling, Andrew B. Leiter, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, Michael Pickard, Harriet Pollack, and Victoria Richard Eudora Welty’s ingenious play with readers’ expectations made her a cunning writer, a paramount modernist, a short story artist of the first rank, and a remarkable literary innova...
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    50,13 €

  • Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson (Hardback)
    Isiah Lavender
    A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a 'Grand Master' of Science Fiction. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives--Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon’s Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine--project complex futures and co...
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    158,20 €

  • Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson
    Isiah Lavender
    A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a 'Grand Master' of Science Fiction. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives--Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon’s Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine--project complex futures and co...
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    42,74 €

  • Gothic Travel through Haunted Landscapes
    Lucie Armitt / Scott Brewster
    This book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations with fear, unknown landscapes, environmental change, surveillance, and the foreign. ...
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    180,42 €

  • El placer estético del terror
    Eusebio V. Llácer Llorca
    Edgar Allan Poe se encuentra sin duda entre los autores más leídos y traducidos de la historia de la literatura. Por ello, los estudios que componen este volumen contextualizan su obra dentro del marco del sistema literario hispanohablante y también de la literatura universal. En ellos confluyen, en una secuencia coherente, aproximaciones a los cuentos “La máscara de la muerte ...
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    14,00 €

  • Odia Baigyanika Upanyasa
    Nibedita Panda
    ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟରେ ବୈଜ୍ଞାନିକ ଉପନ୍ୟାସର ସୃଷ୍ଟି ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତାର ପରବର୍ତ୍ତୀ କାଳରେ ଯାହାର ଅଗ୍ରଦୂତ ହୋଇଛନ୍ତି ଡକ୍ଟର ଗୋକୁଳାନନ୍ଦ ମହାପାତ୍ର । ସେ ହେଉଛନ୍ତି ପ୍ରଥମ ସ୍ରଷ୍ଟା । ତାଙ୍କ ଦ୍ୱାରା ରଚିତ ପ୍ରଥମ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ବୈଜ୍ଞାନିକ ଉପନ୍ୟାସ 'ପୃଥିବୀ ବାହାରେ ମଣିଷ' ୧୯୫୨ ମସିହାରେ ପ୍ରକାଶିିତ । ଔପନ୍ୟାସିକ ଗୋକୁଳାନନ୍ଦ ମହାପାତ୍ର ଏ କ୍ଷେତ୍ରରେ ଯେଉଁ ଉଦ୍ୟମ କରିଛନ୍ତି ତାହା ବାସ୍ତବରେ ପ୍ରଂଶସନୀୟ । ଗୋକୁଳାନନ୍ଦ ମହାପାତ୍ରଙ୍କ ପରେ ଏ କ୍ଷେତ୍ରରେ ଯୋଗଦେଲେ ଡଃ. ନ...
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    18,78 €

  • Lies & Vengeance
    Alison Nichole
    My past is a graveyard I don’t speak of, but it’s the fire that fuels everything I do.Vengeance is a slow, beautiful kind of death.Deception isn’t a lie, it’s a weapon.And me? I’m not the girl they think I am.I’m not weak.I don’t break.And I sure as hell won’t stop.Not even for him.Dominick King is danger wrapped in desire. A storm in the shape of a man.I should run.Instead, I ...
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    17,32 €

  • Beckett on File
    Virginia Cooke
    This book, first published in 1985, contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer’s plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews, and most importantly, a selection of Beckett’s own comments on their work drawn from essays, interviews, letters and diaries. ...
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    57,61 €

  • Beckett the Shape Changer
    Katharine Worth
    The essays in this book, first published in 1975, suggest how best to approach Beckett, how to read him, how to get closer to the concrete experience offered by this most concrete of writers. It aims to bring out the full diversity of Beckett’s art as dramatist and story-teller. ...
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    57,06 €

  • The World of Science Fiction, 1926-1976
    Lester del Rey
    This book, first published in 1980, analyses the history of science fiction and related developments, for instance the Bomb, that have shaped the literature. It examines the complex of activity and background tradition, the body of accepted beliefs and conventions, and the ethics and values of the world of science fiction. ...
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    58,86 €

  • Science Fiction
    Patrick Parrinder
    This book, first published in 1980, analyses science fiction as a mode of literature, examines the definition of the genre, its function as social criticism and as an embodiment and critique of the scientific outlook. ...
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    57,30 €

  • Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale
    Andrew J Rausch
    Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience willing to follow him into any genre he chooses to write in, including horror, western, crime, adventure, and fantasy. Within thes...
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    42,95 €

  • Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale
    Andrew J Rausch
    Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience willing to follow him into any genre he chooses to write in, including horror, western, crime, adventure, and fantasy. Within thes...
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    158,41 €

  • Gulf Gothic
    Dolores Flores-Silva / Keith Cartwright
    Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas. ...
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    35,76 €

  • Swedish Gothic
    Yvonne Leffler
    The monograph gives an overview of the development and characteristic features of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today. ...
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    35,76 €

  • Personation Plots
    Clayton Carlyle Tarr
    Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly.The first full-length study of identity fraud in literature, Personation Plots argues that concerns about identity and the body gripped the Victorian consciousness. The mid-nineteenth century was marked by extensive medico-legal efforts to understand the body as the sole signifi...
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    121,73 €

  • Connie Willis’s Science Fiction
    Carissa Turner Smith
    This collection argues that Connie Willis’s oeuvre performs science fiction’s task of cognitive estrangement by highlighting by highlighting our human inability to read the times correctly-and yet also affirming the ethical imperative to attempt to truly observe and record our temporal location ...
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    240,78 €

  • Science Fiction
    Patrick Parrinder
    This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. Contributors are drawn from Britain, America and Europe, and range from well-known academic critics to young novelists. The essays establish the common properties of science fiction writing, and assess the history and significance of a field in which...
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    57,00 €

  • The Stuff of Science Fiction
    Gary Westfahl
    While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that characteristically deals with subjects such as new inventions, space, robot and aliens. This book looks at science fiction in precisely this manner, with twenty-one chapters that each deal with a subject that is repeate...
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    73,40 €

  • Investigating Simenon
    Russell Campbell
    For nearly a century, the work of Belgian crime writer and psychological novelist Georges Simenon, creator of Chief Inspector Maigret, has captivated readers worldwide. This investigation situates Simenon’s work in its historical context and interprets it as a reaction to shifting gender relations in Western society. Simenon’s compelling narratives capture the anxieties of m...
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    79,19 €

  • Outsiders
    Sylvia Huot
    Sylvia Huot argues that the presence of giants in French prose romances demonstrates fantasies of conflict and conquest and the suppression of alternative trajectories in Arthurian Britain. ...
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    179,51 €

  • JULIO VERNE | Las naves extraordinarias y la ilusión de la ciencia
    Ignacio Méndez-Trelles Díaz
    Un fascinante ensayo literario sobre las naves ideadas por el genial autor francés. Una obra que describe las extraordinarias «naves» que Julio Verne formuló novelísticamente, empleando sus propias palabras, contrastándolas con el conocimiento técnico y científico actual en un marco de análisis práctico, buscando sus fuentes de inspiración, reconociendo en ocasiones su gran val...
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    26,00 €


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