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  • Why Write? Why Read?
    Michael Rosen
    This booklet gathers together some recent talks and blogs on writing and reading, for use by teachers, librarians, parents, or anyone interested in engaging children and students in reading, writing, analysing why and how we do both. ...
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    6,19 €

  • Spedestä Säätiöön
    Panu Petteri Höglund
    SPEDESTÄ SÄÄTIÖÖN – kolme esseetä populaari­kulttuu­rista. Spede Pasanen oli vuosikymmenten ajan Suomen tuotteliain viihdemies. Olisiko nyt aika pohtia myös Speden ansioita suomalaisen komedian uudistajana? John Carter oli Tarzanista kuuluisan Edgar Rice Burroughsin toiseksi tunnetuin seikkailijahahmo, joka sai uutta kuuluisuutta taannoisen suurelokuvan ansiosta. Miten apinamie...
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    27,20 €

  • ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
    WILLIAM H. PATTERSON / WILLIAM HPATTERSON
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    34,12 €

  • Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction
    A J Dalton / Hazel Butler
    WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS 2018 - NON-FICTION.2 of the papers have been nominated for the BSFA Awards 2017: Kim Lakin-Smith and Juliet McKenna.JULIET MCKENNA'S PAPER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA AWARDS 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD NON-FICTION 2018!“Gender identity and sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction” is the first Call for Papers of Ac...
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    22,39 €

  • Teorias contemporaneas
    Lauro Zavala
    Han transcurrido más de 30 años desde la publicación del Tomo I de las Teorías del Cuento en 1993, pero finalmente se publican los materiales que originalmente formaban parte de esta compilación, dirigida a los practicantes, estudiosos y lectores del cuento.Este volumen se inicia con varios textos de cuentistas que escriben sobre otros cuentistas y algunas poéticas personales d...
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    28,03 €

  • Mito y muerte
    Jon Mentxakatorre Odriozola
    ¿Es verdad que se puede crear desde la palabra? ¿Cómo sostiene la verdad?¿Qué verdad narra? ¿Qué se dice del ser humano, mortal, en el mero acto de narrar?En diálogo con la tradición occidental, mediante discurso filosófico, este trabajo pretende explicar cómo el mito es creativo, cómo dice o trae verdad, por qué y cómo vuelve en el siglo XX de mano de J. R. R. Tolkien y cuál e...
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    18,72 €

  • Ariano Suassuna e seu mais nobre auto
    Marcelo Calderaro
    Este livro apresenta uma comparação entre trechos do livro de Suassuna com cenas recortadas da minissérie televisiva com o intuito de motivar interesse dos jovens estudantes pela leitura de obras literárias e visa ser mais um suporte teórico-analítico para que professores de literatura apresentem possibilidades de leituras de obras literárias a serem estudadas por adolescentes,...
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    11,96 €

  • Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature
    Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez
    The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature traces the aesthetic and political development of the Gothic genre in Colombia. Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez shows how, in the hands of Colombian writers and filmmakers, Gothic tropes are taken to their extremes to reflect particularly Colombian issues, like the ongoing armed conflict in the country since the 1950s as various left wing...
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    50,66 €

  • The Keeper Who Kept
    Max Iden
    Some hold on because they cannot bear to let go. A second warm envelope arrives at the shop on Vellum Lane. It is addressed not to Marlow Pell, but to the keeper who reads. Ottoline Pell is eighteen, untested, and able to hear the dead. Her first keeping takes her to Threnody Wells, a once-famous spa town whose healing springs have turned flat and strange. For fifty years, the ...
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    10,29 €

  • John Cowper Powys and the Afterlife of Romanticism
    Kim Wheatley
    This study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to the cultural transmission of Romanticism.Kim Wheatley’s John Cowper Powys and the Afterlife of Romanticism uncovers the surprising extent to which this multi-faceted Modernist-e...
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    51,05 €

  • Nylons, Lipstick, and Narnia
    Octavia Cade
    The fate of Susan Pevensie, formerly Queen Susan of Narnia, is a controversial one. She is exiled from that land, disparaged both for her disbelief and her liking for nylons, lipstick, and invitations. In fanfiction, her fate is better.When Octavia Cade began exploring Narnian fanfiction, she discovered that the Problem of Susan, as her canon fate is frequently referred to, is ...
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    23,47 €

  • Spider-Man and the Sacred
    George Tsakiridis
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    79,36 €

  • Hubris
    S M Carpenter
    Alena has returned to the mortal world, hell-bent on finding Vasacardi-her best friend, taken by the traitor Asaroth. But caught between the fractured memories of her past and the guilt of her actions, Alena doesn’t know who she can trust¿least of all herself.As Alena pushes away everyone in her relentless search, Max isn’t entirely certain if his sister isn’t planning somethin...
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    17,37 €

  • Environmentalism in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
    Environmentalism in Middle-earth brings together ten essays exploring Tolkien as a proto-environmentalist and deep ecologist before the term existed. From the tree-herding Ents of Fangorn to the maternal nature goddesses of The Silmarillion, from the ethical mining of Erebor to the corrupted wasteland of Mordor, the contributors reveal how Tolkien’s legendarium presents a moral...
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    30,42 €

  • Le Demon de l’ile solitaire
    Ranpo Edogawa
    Jusqu’où la fascination pour la beauté obsessionnelle et le désir déviant peuvent-ils justifier la création du monstrueux ?Découvrant le meurtre de son sosie parfait, Hirosuke Mizuno décide de s’approprier son identité pour enquêter. Son périple le mène sur une île isolée et sinistre, dominée par un scientifique tyrannique adepte de mutilations humaines grotesque. Entre amours ...
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    23,82 €

  • Gothic Travel through Haunted Landscapes
    Lucie Armitt / Scott Brewster
    This book argues that the process and experience of travel in Gothic literature provides a unique and transformative perspective on the relationship between fear and recurring cultural preoccupations from the late eighteenth century to the present, ranging from concerns about climate change or the presence of the unseen to the negotiation of cultural difference and the apprehen...
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    50,36 €

  • Caesar Americus
    David Walls Kaufman
    Caesar Americus: One Party Rule - Book One: Atlas BeheadedWhat happens when a man and an extraordinary health movement unifies America to challenge the powerful and corrupt institutions that rule the nation?Into a near-future United States, steps Priest Bridge-a polymath in medicine, philosophy and martial arts returning from decades in Asia with ideas that can offset dark infl...
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    17,06 €

  • Italian/American Fantastika
    Delves into Italian contributions to these genres and what those contributions mean to global Italian cultural and political identity.Diverse and minority populations worldwide have often embraced horror, science fiction, and fantasy narratives as a means of coming to terms with the multigenerational processes of migration and enculturation and of acting in opposition to totali...
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    50,29 €

  • Myth and Fabulation in the Fantasy Fiction of Neil Gaiman
    Cyril Camus
    Available in English for the first time, this wide-ranging critical study examines Neil Gaiman’s fiction through the lenses of intertextuality, metafiction, and cultural context. Informed by comics, novels, short stories, and film, Camus situates Gaiman’s oeuvre within a literary network that includes Alan Moore, Shakespeare, Borges, Philip Jose Farmer, Jack Kirby, and Winsor M...
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    95,21 €

  • Encuentro Improbable II 'Visperas del ocaso'
    M.D.Sager
    Te doy la bienvenida a esta segunda entrega, un viaje donde la fantasía se entrelaza con la realidad y los sentimientos cobran vida. En Encuentro Improbable II, reanudamos la historia de Zander y Yoriko justo allí donde las emociones quedaron a flor de piel.Mientras Zander lidia con secretos oscuros de su pasado, peligrosas misiones y la sombra despiadada de Lord Van, Yoriko en...
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    11,13 €

  • La arquitectura del crimen
    Alba Longa
    Todo crimen narrativo es también un problema de construcción. Antes de que aparezca un cadáver, una investigación o un culpable, el novelista ya ha comenzado a decidir qué podrá saber el lector, desde qué conciencia observará los hechos, en qué orden recibirá la información y qué significado adquirirá cada silencio. La novela negra nace de esa arquitectura invisible.La arquitec...
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    43,46 €

  • Shakespeare
    Bill D Vossler
    For 400 years the question, 'Did William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon write those now-44 plays that are attributed to him? Questions arose because despite literate letter-writing women in the plays, Shakespeare’s daughters were illiterate. Plus, after writing about 888,000 words for the plays, not a single handwritten word of Shakespeare has ever turned up. Only six signa...
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    15,84 €

  • Batman and the Classics
    Michael D. Nichols
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    71,87 €

  • Living Fossils, Lost Worlds, Last Humans
    Howard V. Hendrix
    The narrative tropes of living fossils, lost worlds, and last humans have long foreshadowed the modern discourse around concepts such as biodiversity loss, ecological collapse, and human extinction. This first book-length study delves into the enduring popular relevance in science and fiction of survivors, relicts, and revenants-particularly remnant species of living fossils, r...
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    79,22 €

  • Dentro del lenguaje
    Ross Smith
    Cuando C. S. Lewis, en el obituario de su amigo y colega J. R. R. Tolkien, señaló que Tolkien «había estado dentro del lenguaje», estaba intentando explicar la comprensión extraordinariamente íntima del lenguaje y la poética que Tolkien había alcanzado después de toda una vida dedicada al estudio filológico y a la invención lingüística. Para Tolkien, el lenguaje lo era todo: fu...
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    20,28 €

  • The Eye of the Bride
    Carlos L Hud
    Three years ago, Selene Arcand’s sister crossed a threshold she was never meant to find - and the spirit on the other side has been wearing her face in every mirror ever since.Selene is a grief counselor who feels the dead’s emotions through her skin. She keeps her gloves on. She keeps people at arm’s length. She keeps surviving. Until a stranger named Dorian Voss appears at he...
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    24,00 €

  • Flixcomix
    Adam Geczy / Jonathan McBurnie
    Flixcomix: Comics Aesthetics in Film reorients the longstanding conversation between comics and cinema by examining film through the lens of comics studies. Rather than relying on film theory to define comics, Adam Geczy and Jonathan McBurnie flip the script--showing how comics’ visual language, timing, and expression have shaped film aesthetics from the silent era to the block...
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    42,83 €

  • Comics and Intermediality
    Nancy Pedri
    Contributions by Karine Abadie, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jan Baetens, Paul Fisher Davies, Brian Fies, Meags Fitzgerald, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Mélanie Leclerc, Nancy Pedri, Giada Peterle, Barbara Postema, Véronique Sina, Sarah Thorne, and Paul TuckerComics and Intermediality offers a fresh look at comics through the lens of intermediality, exploring how comics intersect with, dra...
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    42,65 €

  • Tolkien - History Meets Legend
    Nancy Bunting
    'Legend and History have met and fused' (OFS 156)These essays deal with how Tolkien excavated the mother lode of his own history to create legends. This strategy can be seen in his use of S.R. Crockett’s The Black Douglas and his late essay, 'Aldarion and Erendis.' This biographical approach appears at the start of The Lord of the Rings in the Bombadil chapters, and in his inti...
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    30,07 €

  • The Mysteries of Udolpho
    Ann Radcliffe
    The Mysteries of Udolpho is the haunting tale of a virtuous heroine trapped in a world of medieval gloom. Following the death of her parents, Emily St. Aubert is whisked away to a remote Italian castle, where the boundaries between reality and the supernatural begin to blur. Filled with picturesque landscapes, hidden dungeons, and the ’explained supernatural’ for which Ann Radc...
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    55,37 €


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