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  • The Supernatural and Fantastic in Short Detective Fiction
    Laird R. Blackwell
    Although fantasy and supernatural literature have long and celebrated histories, many critics contend that the fantastic and the supernatural have no place in the logical, rational, world of the detective story. This book is the first extensive study of the fantastic in detective fiction and it explores the highly debated question of whether detective fiction and the fantastic ...
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    79,49 €

  • Mr. Sulu Grabbed My Ass, and Other Highlights from a Life in Comics, Novels, Television, Films and Video Games
    Peter David
    Peter David, award-winning writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games, has boatloads of stories to tell about his 30-year career. Whether it was attending George Takei’s wedding, being described as Will Smith’s bodyguard, or wandering around on the set of Babylon 5, David has been telling anecdotes of his life for years. Here they are all in one place, alo...
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    42,86 €

  • Wonder Women and Bad Girls
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow. These four characters portray very different versions of women: the superheroine, the abuse victim, the fourth wave princess, and the spy, respectively. In this in-depth analysis of female characters in superhero media, the author begins by identifying ten eras of superhero media defined by the way they portray women. Follow...
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    57,40 €

  • America Tenants
    Tianrong Zhang
    At the end of the 1990s, on both sides of the United States, several gangs associated with Taiwan and Japan launched a fierce tracking battle in secret to obtain two treasure maps of cultural relics. They used various methods of deception, solicitation, seduction, and murder. Some overseas students from mainland China, even some Chinese government officials, are involved. This ...
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    23,10 €

  • The American Weird
    Hitherto classified as a form of genre fiction, or as a particular aesthetic quality of literature by H. P. Lovecraft, the weird has now come to refer to a broad spectrum of artistic practices and expressions including fiction, film, television, photography, music, and visual and performance art. Largely under-theorized so far, The American Weird brings together perspectives fr...
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    160,71 €

  • Jean-François Vilar
    Margaret Atack
    In this first full-length study of his work, Margaret Atack surveys not only Vilar’s novels but also his shorter fiction, journalism, photobooks, and contributions to art and exhibition catalogues. From the ludic, if entirely serious, assassinations of political art in his first prize-winning novel C’est toujours les autres qui meurent, to the devastating unreality of massacre ...
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    133,17 €

  • The Poetics of Early Russian Crime Fiction 1860-1917
    Claire Whitehead
    Crime fiction enjoys almost unparalleled success in post-Soviet Russia; but what do we know about its origins and development in the nineteenth century? Claire Whitehead’s ground-breaking and in-depth study rescues early Russian crime fiction from obscurity and undertakes a detailed examination of how the genre harnesses various storytelling techniques to create its striking ef...
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    20,85 €

  • 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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    132,98 €

  • 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 to an...
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    132,67 €

  • Jardín de cactus
    Francisco Ruano
    Buscar la palabra justa para crearle al lector un mundo paralelo al que habita, haciéndole enteramente protagonista de tu burbuja de letras. Eso es lo que consigue encandilar a sus fieles seguidores. 10 ...
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    12,00 €

  • Telar de sangre
    Francisco Ruano
    Buscar la palabra justa para crearle al lector un mundo paralelo al que habita, haciéndole enteramente protagonista de tu burbuja de letras. Eso es lo que consigue encandilar a sus fieles seguidores. 10 ...
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    12,00 €

  • Jeremy Brett - Playing A Part
    Maureen Whittaker
    “Holmes could be rude, impatient, abrupt, and his intolerance of fools was legendary. I tried to show all this, all of the man’s incredible brilliance. But there are some cracks in Holmes’s marble, as in an almost-perfect Rodin statue. And I tried to show that, too. It’s difficult for me to say what I may have given to the image of Holmes. Faithful to Conan Doyle’s text, certai...
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    127,20 €

  • Caitlin R. Kiernan
    James Goho
    Caitlin R. Kiernan is at the forefront of contemporary gothic, weird and science fiction literature. She has written more than a dozen novels, over 250 short stories, many chapbooks, along with a large number of graphic works. For these Kiernan has won numerous awards. This first full-length look at Kiernan’s body of work explores her fictional universe through critical literar...
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    40,65 €

  • The Numismatic Edgar Allan Poe
    Greg Ruby
    A hardbound catalog, with color photos, of coins, medals and other related numismatic items featuring Edgar Allan Poe and several of his literary themes. Including a price guide, detailed descriptions are provided of the items along with other works that combine numismatics with Edgar Allan Poe. ...
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    59,98 €

  • Studier i svart
    Rickard Berghorn / Annika Johansson / Bertil Falk
    Vad skulle ske ifall farao Kheops mumie uppväcks i ett politiskt oroligt år 2126 och ställer sig i spetsen för striderna? Detta märkliga 'tänk om'-scenario uttänktes redan 1826 av Jane Loudon, en ung engelsk författarinna. Hennes futuristiska roman The Mummy! blev populär läsning som inspirerade ingen mindre än Edgar Allan Poe. En bestseller som sedan föll i komplett glömska i ...
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    21,05 €

  • Life’s Winners and a Few Losers
    Ray Keipert
    When cast into difficult and sometimes threatening circumstances, or unexpected challenges, we all have a choice. We either sink or swim. Those who succeed are the ones who rise to the occasion, drawing on inner spiritual strength to respond to the challenge or pursue their personal dreams.Whatever the reason for their internal drive, many persevere, refusing to be swamped by e...
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    14,31 €

  • Lovecraft Annual No. 14 (2020)
    STJoshi
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    16,14 €

  • Haunted Property
    Sarah Gilbreath Ford
    At the heart of America's slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such a...
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    158,32 €

  • Haunted Property
    Sarah Gilbreath Ford
    At the heart of America's slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such a...
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    50,16 €

  • Middle-earth, or There and Back Again
    Lukasz Neubauer
    The world of Tolkien’s imagination is a virtually boundless universe, one in which multiple layers of cultural heritage revolve around his enduring passion for storytelling, fascination with languages and devotion to the Catholic faith. In effect, much of his fiction is an eclectic, though, at the same time, remarkably coherent, mixture in which certain elements of the old lore...
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    24,72 €

  • Victorian literary culture and ancient Egypt
    Eleanor Dobson
    This is the first academic study to address ancient Egypt as it was appropriated across disparate literary modes during the Victorian era. Drawing on texts by canonical authors while illuminating new sources and understudied works, it brings the highbrow and the popular into conversation, addressing contemporary ideas of race, gender and religion. ...
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    157,56 €

  • La querella de los novelistas
    Sara Santamaría Colmenero
    La configuración del pasado, permanentemente en cuestión, entraña una disputa política que nunca se limita a este, sino que atañe también a cómo nos situamos ante el futuro. Este libro analiza la lucha por establecer un relato hegemónico de la historia reciente de España que tuvo lugar a caballo entre los siglos XX y XXI. En ella los novelistas españoles tuvieron un protagonism...
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    20,00 €

  • El pensamiento de Saramago.
    Asunción Muñoz
    La intención de este ensayo es analizar, junto a los lectores que ya conocen la obra saramaguiana, el pensamiento filosófico contenido en ella, así como hacerlo llegar a quienes aún no la hayan leído, en el convencimiento de que atraerá su interés. Dicho análisis tiene como objetivo ayudar no solo a comprender la concepción que del mundo tenía José Saramago, sino también poner ...
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    16,00 €

  • Romantic Vacancy
    Kate Singer
    Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature. ...
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    41,80 €

  • The Impulse of Fantasy Literature
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    This book grew out of the author’s wish to go beyond a formal definition of fantasy to discover a basic urge and interest common to the genre. He finds this urge to be the celebration of identity. Fantasy is ultimately concerned to heighten and praise being, whether that being is God’s creation, the world, or the creations of the fantasy writer themselves. This interest can tak...
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    21,29 €

  • The Impulse of Fantasy Literature
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    This book grew out of the author’s wish to go beyond a formal definition of fantasy to discover a basic urge and interest common to the genre. He finds this urge to be the celebration of identity. Fantasy is ultimately concerned to heighten and praise being, whether that being is God’s creation, the world, or the creations of the fantasy writer themselves. This interest can tak...
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    38,38 €

  • Dead Reckonings No. 27 (Spring 2020)
    Ramsey Campbell
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    8,05 €

  • Postmodernismo y metaficción historiográfica
    Santiago Juan Navarro
    Este libro examina la problemática combinación de autorreferencialidad literaria, revisionismo histórico y pensamiento utópico en varias novelas producidas en Hispanoamérica y los Estados Unidos durante la primera mitad de los años setenta. Los cuatro autores incluidos (Carlos Fuentes, Ishmael Reed, Julio Cortázar y E. L. Doctorow) ejemplifican la forma autoconsciente y amalgam...
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    18,00 €

  • El orden del caos
    Francisco Collado Rodríguez
    Francisco Collado s'ocupa en aquest llibre de la difícil tasca de trobar un ordre subjacent darrere de l'aparent caos i la paranoia de l'univers literari de Pynchon. Independentment del posmodernismo de Pynchon, l'estudi s'embarca obertament en la recerca de la crítica literària, una recerca que en paraules del crític es tracta de 'una comprensió totalitzadora de l'univers lite...
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    20,00 €

  • The Betrothed
    Alessandro Manzoni
    “A gift to humanity” – Giuseppe Verde.“The book's real greatness lies in its delineation of character”  -- The Penguin Companion to European Literature.“The Great Italian Novel” – The Wall Street Journal. Manzoni’s The Betrothed is indeed “The Great Italian Novel.”  It is the story of the love and enforced separation of a young peasant boy and girl in northern Italy, during...
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    25,02 €


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