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  • Buffy and the Art of Story
    L. M. Lilly
    What can you learn about fiction writing by watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer?More than you ever imagined.In this book, bestselling author L. M. Lilly takes apart every episode in the first season of Joss Whedon’s cult TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She examines major plot points and turns, character arcs, metaphor, and more to show how to:• Structure a strong plot; • Heig...
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    14,30 €

  • 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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    15,28 €

  • Faktasin
    Bertil Falk
    Den svenska science fiction-litteraturens historia är ett till största delen outforskat fält. Föregångare som Sam J. Lundwall och Jerry Määttä har gjort betydande insatser, men detta är den första stora genomgången av dess hela historia från 1600-talet fram till början av millenniet. En historik som också tjänar som lexikon.Detta första band (av tre) behandlar perioden fram til...
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    15,83 €

  • Faktasin
    Bertil Falk
    Den svenska science fiction-litteraturens historia är ett till största delen outforskat fält. Föregångare som Sam J. Lundwall och Jerry Määttä har gjort betydande insatser, men detta är den första stora genomgången av dess hela historia från 1600-talet fram till början av millenniet. En historik som också tjänar som lexikon.Detta första band (av tre) behandlar perioden fram til...
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    24,70 €

  • Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction
    Contributions by Torsten Caeners, Phoebe Chen, Mathieu Donner, Shannon Hervey, Angela S. Insenga, Patricia Kennon, Maryna Matlock, Ferne Merrylees, Lars Schmeink, Anita Tarr, Tony M. Vinci, and Donna R. WhiteFor centuries, humanism has provided a paradigm for what it means to be human: a rational, unique, unified, universal, autonomous being. Recently, however, a new philosophi...
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    49,87 €

  • Vastarien
    Vastarien: A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork and non-classifiable hybrid pieces. 3 ...
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    15,91 €

  • Morality and the Law in British Detective and Spy Fiction, 1880-1920
    Kate Morrison
    Who decides what is right or wrong, ethical or immoral, just or unjust? In the world of crime and spy fiction between 1880 and 1920, the boundaries of the law were blurred and justice called into question humanity’s moral code. As fictional detectives mutated into spies near the turn of the century, the waning influence of morality on decision-making signaled a shift in behavio...
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    79,53 €

  • The Fantasy Literature of England
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    In this, the first book on English fantasy, Colin Manlove shows that for all its immense diversity, English fantasy can best be understood in terms of its strong national character, rather than as an international genre. Showing its development from Beowulf to Blake, the author describes English fantasy’s modern growth through secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subv...
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    23,49 €

  • The Fantasy Literature of England
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    In this, the first book on English fantasy, Colin Manlove shows that for all its immense diversity, English fantasy can best be understood in terms of its strong national character, rather than as an international genre. Showing its development from Beowulf to Blake, the author describes English fantasy’s modern growth through secondary world, metaphysical, emotive, comic, subv...
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    41,88 €

  • Crime Fiction and National Identities in the Global Age
    Julie H. Kim
    To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today’s bestselling works of crime fiction are produced allow them to mirror and dissect nearly contemporaneous socio-political events and conflicts. This collection examines this phenomenon and offers original, critical, essays on how nation...
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    79,27 €

  • Modern Fantasy
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    After a decade from 1965 which had seen the growth in Britain and America of an enormous interest in fantasy literature, and a rise in its academic repute from cold to lukewarm, a serious study of the subject seemed long overdue. In this first critical book in its time on modern English fantasy, Colin Manlove surveys a representative group of modern fantasies--in the Victorian ...
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    30,95 €

  • Modern Fantasy
    Colin N. Manlove / Colin NManlove
    After a decade from 1965 which had seen the growth in Britain and America of an enormous interest in fantasy literature, and a rise in its academic repute from cold to lukewarm, a serious study of the subject seemed long overdue. In this first critical book in its time on modern English fantasy, Colin Manlove surveys a representative group of modern fantasies--in the Victorian ...
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    40,53 €

  • The Satanic in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    A J Dalton
    Satan, Dracula, Sauron, Lord Foul, Darth Vader. The motif of the Satanic Dark Lord is ever-present in science fiction and fantasy, a malign intelligence seeking to thwart the Chosen One.In the literature of the 1980s and 90s, the Dark Lord is always defeated. However, post-millennium, there are signs that he has finally begun to get the upper hand, as we witness his change from...
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    18,92 €

  • Ages of the Black Panther
    Joseph J Darowski
    Black Panther was the first black superhero in mainstream comic books, and his most iconic adventures are analyzed here. This collection of new essays explores Black Panther's place in the Marvel universe, focusing on the comic books. With topics ranging from the impact apartheid and the Black Panther Party had on the comic to theories of gender and animist imagery, these e...
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    42,82 €

  • Neo-Gothic Narratives
    ’Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times. ...
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    180,40 €

  • 21st-Century Horror
    Sunand Tryambak Joshi
    The literature of terror and the supernatural has been experiencing a renaissance over the past several decades, and with the advent of the new millenium a diverse cadre of writers have expanded the bounds of weird fiction and enriched it with their penetrating visions. This book is the first to present a broad analysis of horror fiction as written by writers in their forties a...
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    36,52 €

  • Två fantasistycken
    Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
    Berättat av fantasins och sällsamheternas mästare:I kortromanen Lille Zachris, kallad Cinober är feerna, trollkarlarna och magin bannlysta ur furst Paphnutius rike för att inte störa det viktiga upplysningsarbetet. Men somliga dröjer kvar under antagna identiteter och kommer behändigt till nytta när den förnäme studenten Cinober anländer till universitetsstaden. Han skapar ored...
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    27,42 €

  • Study Guide to Faustus and Other Works by Christopher Marlowe
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Christopher Marlowe, the foremost Elizabethian tragedian of his day. Titles in this study guide include Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great, The Jew of Malta, and Edward II. As Shakespeare’s most important predecessor and influencer of English drama, Marlowe’s plays are most...
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    8,55 €

  • Study Guide to Othello by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Othello, the inspiration behind many operas, films, and literary adaptations. As a tragedy of the seventeenth-century, Othello’s performance continues today due to the timeless themes of racism, love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge and repentance. Moreover, Shakespeare was ins...
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    15,66 €

  • Study Guide to King Lear by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s King Lear, listed as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. As a theatrical work of the seventeenth-century, King Lear provides commentary on power dynamics within family and political structures. Moreover, it shows how the use of imagery in a narrative contributes to the...
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    8,42 €

  • Study Guide to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a romance characterized by love sonnets, rhyme, and imagery of light and dark. As a tragedy of the late-sixteenth-century, Romeo and Juliet displays Elizabethan belief in astrology and fate as it applies to the two star-crossed lovers. Moreover, the story...
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    11,19 €

  • Study Guide to Madame Bovary and Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Gustave Flaubert, the prime influencer of French realist literature. Titles in this study guide include Madame Bovary and Three Tales. As a leading exponent of literary realism, Flaubert’s work illustrates elaborate devotion to style and aesthetics. Moreover, he emphasizes the...
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    8,38 €

  • Study Guide to Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Other Works by Samuel Beckett
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1969. Titles in this study guide include All That Fall, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, and Waiting for Godot. As an unconventional but modernist author of the war-ravaged twentieth-century, B...
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    6,75 €

  • Study Guide to Ivanhoe and Other Works by Sir Walter Scott
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Sir Walter Scott, the inventor and greatest practitioner of the historical novel. Titles in this study guide include Ivanhoe, The Heart of Midlothian, and Quentin Durward. As a noteworthy voice of nineteenth century literature, Scott’s writings gave way to a new and vivid tell...
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    12,77 €

  • Study Guide to Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which centers around the holiday time for rejoicing and practical jokes twelve days after Christmas.As a comedy of the early-seventeenth-century, Twelfth Night is regarded as Shakespeare’s most masterful work of literature when it comes to theme, structure, a...
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    8,46 €

  • Study Guide to A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of Shakespeare’s most famous and widely performed plays for the stage. As a comedy of the sixteenth-century, Shakespeare expertly examines the unpredictability and impact of romantic love. Moreover, love is the most prominent theme, expressed...
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    6,75 €

  • Study Guide to The Comedies by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by William Shakespeare, considered one of the greatest playwrights in history. Titles in this study guide include Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, All’s Well that Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale, and...
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    17,20 €

  • Study Guide to Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, the last of Shakespeare’s political tradegies. As an unusual and intense, intellectual drama, Shakespeare employs single narrative line and striking images, but the most effective moments in the play are developed through understated silence. Moreover, he imple...
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    12,93 €

  • Study Guide to Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakepeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2, the gripping third installment of kingship and rebellion. As a detail-rich history of the sixteenth century, Shakespeare skillfully combines history and comedy, moving from intense battle scenes of kings to simple scenes of country life. Moreover, his com...
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    8,36 €

  • Gothic incest
    Jenny DiPlacidi / TBD
    Challenges dominant accounts of gender and sexuality in Gothic literature by demonstrating the complexities of the incest thematic through interdisciplinary readings of incest in texts from 1764-1847. ...
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    36,63 €


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