Catálogo de libros Estudios Literarios: Ficción, Novelistas Y Prosistas

Bobby Derie

For more than a decade, Bobby Derie has written insightful and penetrating essays on some of the leading authors of pulp fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, especially Robert E. Howard and his friends, colleagues, and fellow-writers. In this collection of twenty-six essays, Derie covers an extraordinarily wide range of subjects; but in every instance he draws upon primary documents...

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27,20 €

García Márquez

Ciro Bianchi Ross / Ross Bianchi

Gabriel García Márquez es, junto con Ernest Hemingway, el escritor no cubano más difundido en la Isla. Esta crónica devela de cabo a rabo sus vínculos con Cuba desde que en el Caribe colombiano se fascinó con la música cubana -Pérez Prado, el Trio Matamoros- y se entusiasmó con las radionovelas de Félix B. Caignet, y sigue el día a día de su estancia habanera, primero en 1959 y...

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13,01 €

Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens

Anna Milon

This volume of proceedings contains papers from the largest and, perhaps, most diverse Tolkien Society Seminar to date.Following a much-contested Call for Papers, ‘Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens’ explores Tolkien’s complex use of religious ideology, the readers’ approach to their beloved fictional world via unusual spiritual and philosophical c...

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18,99 €

Vastarien, Vol. 2, Issue 1

Files Gemma / Gemma Files

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.ContentsVenioGemma FilesThe Lord is an Active ShooterFiona Maeve GeistThe SistersF.J. BergmannHorror Religiosus: The...

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15,89 €

The Science Fiction Fanzine Reader

Luis Ortiz

THE SCIENCE FICTION FANZINE READER: FOCAL POINTS, 1930-1960 is the first mainstream book to go into the background of fanzine culture and shed light on how science fiction fandom has shaped popular culture. Editor Luis Ortiz with his deep knowledge and passion for the genre has mined thousands of fanzines to collect more than 50 essays by participants in the genesis of American...

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39,50 €

Dining with Madmen

Thomas Fahy

In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror. Conspicuous consumption may have communicated success in the eighties, but only if it did not become visible on the body. American society had come to view fatness as a horrify...

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50,15 €

Harry Potter Generation

Emily Lauer

The generation of readers most heavily impacted by J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series--those who grew up alongside 'the boy who lived'--have come of age. They are poised to become teachers, parents, critics and writers, and many of their views and choices will be influenced by the literary revolution in which they were immersed. This collection of new essays explores the many d...

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54,43 €

Dining with Madmen

Thomas Fahy

In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror. Conspicuous consumption may have communicated success in the eighties, but only if it did not become visible on the body. American society had come to view fatness as a horrify...

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158,30 €

Mid-century gothic

Lisa Mullen

Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with optimism about the future. By reassessing the novels, films, visual culture and technologies of the period, the book argues that gothicism itself was redefined by the upstart objects of modernity. ...

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157,57 €

Santería, Vodou and Resistance in Caribbean Literature

Paul Humphrey

African-derived religious traditions like Santería and Vodou have long been a site of political, cultural and social resistance in the Caribbean. Through his focus on the body as the juncture between the physical and spiritual planes, Humphrey’s analysis of a number of Caribbean novels and plays foregrounds the complex nature of women’s negotiation of religious, social and poli...

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132,98 €

Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story

Laird R. Blackwell

Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic, and the editor of the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Queen--both a pen name and the fictional protagonist of the stories--was also a vital force behind the continuing popularity of crime fi...

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72,06 €

Perspectives on Digital Comics

This collection of new essays explores various ways of reading, interpreting and using digital comics. Contributors discuss comics made specifically for web consumption, and also digital reproductions of print-comics. Written for those who may not be familiar with digital comics or digital comic scholarship, the essays cover perspectives on reading, criticism and analysis of sp...

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57,35 €

'I’m Just a Comic Book Boy'

Comics and the punk movement are inextricably linked--each has a foundational do-it-yourself ethos and a nonconformist spirit defiant of authority. This collection of new essays provides for the first time a thorough analysis of the intersections between comics and punk. The contributors expand the discussion beyond the familiar U.S. and UK scenes to include the influence punk ...

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57,40 €

Sub-creating Arda

J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary cosmos may not be the most elaborate of the imaginary worlds in existence, it is certainly the most influential. The posthumous editorial work of Tolkien’s son Christopher has also shown that Arda remains unrivalled in its consistency and complexity. Additionally, the re-publication of Tolkien’s Andrew Lang lecture ‘On Fairy-stories’ (originally delive...

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39,54 €

Breve historia de la fantasía

Silvia Pato Rico

Breve historia de la fantasía es un ensayo completo sobre el concepto y la historia de una disciplina que nadie puede pasar de largo. La fantasía es una parte intrínseca del ser humano y en este libro veremos cómo nos acompaña desde antes de ser nombrada como Fantasía, siempre hemos necesitado mitos de creación y de destrucción provocados por seres diferentes a los humanos, los...

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19,76 €

An Ethics Beyond

Kevin Richard Kaiser

This study examines the fiction of contemporary American author George Saunders in terms of how it presents situations applicable to the chief notions of posthumanist ethics and how these conceptions concern nonhuman animals, which are prevalent in his writing. Posthumanist ethics can help us understand what is at play in Saunders's fiction. Meanwhile, his texts can help us und...

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15,00 €

City of the Dead

Jan Andrew Henderson

Edinburgh is a modern, lively capital in a civilized western country. Yet it has a reputation for being one of the most haunted places on earth. This book is an attempt to find out why. It’s a history of Edinburgh’s dark side, a guide to its supernatural locations and an investigation into the occult in general - including this city’s connections to it. Jan-Andrew Henderson i...

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18,95 €

The Detective and the Artist

J.K. Van Dover

This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction--as detectives, as villains and victims, and as bystanders. With a few significant exceptions, literary detectives have always identified themselves as essentially the deconstructors of the artful crimes of others. They may use various methods--ratiocinative, scientific, or hard-boiled--but ...

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79,57 €

The Bend at the End of the Road

Barry N. Malzberg / Barry NMalzberg

Barry N. Malzberg’s fiction earned him the 1973 John W. Campbell Memorial Award, nominations for the Philip K. Dick and Theodore Sturgeon Awards, as well as two Hugo and six Nebula Award nominations. Born in 1939, he earned a degree from Syracuse University, worked for the New York City government, and made his first professional fiction sale in 1966. He wrote fiction in a vari...

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30,64 €

Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century American Counterparts

John Cullen Gruesser

Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century American Counterparts addresses Poe’s connections with, critical assessments of, borrowings from, and effect on his literary peers. It situates Poe within his own time and place, paying particular attention to his interactions with, and impact on, figures such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Harriet J...

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161,14 €

British Superhero

Christopher Murray

Chris Murray reveals the largely unknown and rather surprising history of the British superhero. It is often thought that Britain did not have its own superheroes, yet Murray demonstrates that there were a great many in Britain and that they were often used as a way to comment on the relationship between Britain and America. Sometimes they emulated the style of American comics,...

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49,65 €

Dead Reckonings No. 24 (Fall 2018)

Ramsey Campbell

TABLE OF CONTENTS A Feast in Small Bites ........... Géza A. G. ReillyRobert Aickman, Compulsory Games Alive with Darkness ........... S. T. JoshiRamsey Campbell, By the Light of My Skull and The Way of the Worm God Is a Disease: The Mystic Exile of Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession ........... Nathan Chazan Full House ........... Hank WagnerDarrell Schweitzer, The Dragon House Rin...

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7,40 €

Exploring Dark Short Fiction #2

Kaaron Warren / Michael Arnzen

Australian author Kaaron Warren is widely recognized as one of the leading writers today of speculative and dark short fiction. She’s published four novels, multiple novellas, and well over one hundred heart-rending tales of horror, science fiction, and beautiful fantasy, and is the first author ever to simultaneously win all three of Australia’s top speculative fiction writing...

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18,97 €

Exploring Dark Short Fiction #1

Michael Arnzen / Steve Rasnic Tem

For over four decades, Steve Rasnic Tem has been an acclaimed author of horror, weird, and sentimental fiction. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as 'A perfect balance between the bizarre and the straight-forward' and Library Journal as 'One of the most distinctive voices in imaginative literature,' Steve Rasnic Tem has been read and cherished the world over for his affecting, genre-...

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18,89 €

Exploring Dark Short Fiction #3

Michael Arnzen / Nisi Shawl

Praised by literary journals, news outlets, and leading fiction magazines, Nisi Shawl is celebrated as an author whose works are lyrical and philosophical, speculative and far-ranging; “…broad in ambition and deep in accomplishment” (The Seattle Times). Besides nearly three decades of creating fantasy and science fiction, fairy tales, and indigenous stories, Nisi has also been ...

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19,02 €

Exploring Dark Short Fiction #3

Michael Arnzen / Nisi Shawl

Praised by literary journals, news outlets, and leading fiction magazines, Nisi Shawl is celebrated as an author whose works are lyrical and philosophical, speculative and far-ranging; “…broad in ambition and deep in accomplishment” (The Seattle Times). Besides nearly three decades of creating fantasy and science fiction, fairy tales, and indigenous stories, Nisi has also been ...

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11,92 €

Stan Lee

Bob Batchelor

This first true biography of Stan Lee is an eye-opening look at a pop culture visionary. This book traces Lee's life—from his Depression-era childhood to his years as a teen editor and ultimately to his triumphs as the genius behind some of the most beloved characters in pop culture history, including Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, and Thor. ...

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14,47 €

Swedish Marxist Noir

Per Hellgren

Marxist theories have had a profound influence on crime fiction, beginning with the works of the American writers of the 1930s. This study explores the development of a Swedish Marxist noir subgenre after the 1990s through a Marxist reading of central works, from the Marlowe novels of Raymond Chandler to the 1960s social crime fiction of Sjowall-Wahloo to modern bestselling aut...

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79,28 €

The British Comic Book Invasion

Jochen Ecke

What makes a successful comics creator? How can storytelling stay exciting and innovative? How can genres be kept vital? Writers and artists in the highly competitive U.S. comics mainstream have always had to explore these questions but they were especially pressing in the 1980s. As comics readers grew older they started calling for more sophisticated stories. They were also...

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57,23 €

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