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  • Through Stranger Eyes
    David Brin
    rom bestselling author David Brin comes a collected work that takes the reader on a swooping, controversial ride through worlds of fiction, nonfiction and film. Through Stranger Eyes is a freedom-of-expression free-for-all, offering more than two dozen reviews and commentaries that are sure to enlighten and entertain, possibly infuriate, even make you laugh.From carefully measu...
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    32,44 €

  • Dr. Vermont’s Fantasy (1896)
    Hannah Lynch
    Dr. Vermont’s Fantasy is a novel written by Hannah Lynch and published in 1896. The story revolves around the character of Dr. Vermont, a physician who becomes disillusioned with his life and profession. He finds solace in his imagination and begins to create a fantasy world where he can escape the mundane reality of his existence. As Dr. Vermont’s fantasy world becomes more in...
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    37,55 €

  • Bedd Gelert
    David Erwyd Jenkins / HElvet Lewis / H. Elvet Lewis
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    23,99 €

  • Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale
    Benson Stephen
    Recent decades have witnessed a renaissance of interest in the fairy tale, not least among writers of fiction. In Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale, editor Stephen Benson argues that fairy tales are one of the key influences on fiction of the past thirty years and also continue to shape literary trends in the present. Contributors detail the use of fairy tales both as ins...
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    45,75 €

  • Lilith in a New Light
    Lucas H Harriman
    Considered George MacDonald’s greatest work, Lilith (1895) is among the most popular and profound fantasy novels of the Victorian era. This collection of critical essays is the first book-length study of this important literary work. The selections function in working dialogue with one another, driven by the central idea of liminality in fantasy literature. In addition to provi...
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    42,99 €

  • Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature
    Tony Burns
    Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and partly because it is thought to represent a turning point in the history of utopian/dystopian political thought and literature and of science fiction. Published in 1974, it marked a revival of utopianism after decades of dystopian writing. According to...
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    163,34 €

  • Introduction to Satire
    Leonard Feinberg
    For more than two thousand years we have known satirists as those wits who expose hypocrisy and deftly stick shafts into our ballooned egos. Collectively we resent this perspicacity-satirists are never much liked. We give them their due, however, by admiring their ability to make us laugh while they make us squirm. Introduction to Satire explains fully how the satirist manages...
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    25,23 €

  • Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Sources of Inspiration
    In the year after his graduation from Exeter College, Oxford, the great mythopoeic work for which he would become famous was already germinating in Tolkien’s mind. In August 2006 the College offered a week of seminars and papers by leading international specialists on Tolkien’s Exeter years, the influence of the Great War, the healing power of his narrative, and its relevance t...
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    30,64 €

  • Tolkien’s Shorter Works
    Tolkien’s Middle-earth and its legendarium have drawn extensive scholarly attention. But there is more to Tolkien than the history and legends of Middle-earth, and there has hitherto been a certain lack of academic criticism focused primarily on his shorter fictional works Farmer Giles of Ham, Smith of Wootton Major, Roverandom and his poetry. Although scholarly evaluations of ...
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    30,09 €

  • The House Of Atreus
    Aeschylus / Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead
    The House of Atreus is a collection of three plays by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, and Furies. These plays follow the story of the cursed House of Atreus, beginning with the return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War and his subsequent murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. The second play follows the vengeance of Agam...
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    31,36 €

  • A Country Doctor (1910)
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    35,42 €

  • The Evidence For The Supernatural
    Ivor Lloyd Tuckett
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,40 €

  • Frankenstein
    David Higgins
    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most widely read novels of all time. Its two central characters, the scientist Victor Frankenstein and the being he creates, have gained mythic status in their own right. Engaging with the novel’s characterization is crucial to gaining a real understanding of its themes and contexts, including education, gender difference, imperialism, ...
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    34,68 €

  • Wuthering Heights
    Melissa Fegan
    Readers and critics have been intrigued - and disturbed - by the characters of Wuthering Heights since its publication in 1847. Heathcliff and Catherine, the tormented and enigmatic lovers at the centre of the novel, have justifiably been the focus of critical attention. Yet the novel is peopled with a large cast of idiosyncratic characters, each of whom plays a significant rol...
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    161,42 €

  • Frankenstein
    David Higgins
    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most widely read novels of all time. Its two central characters, the scientist Victor Frankenstein and the being he creates, have gained mythic status in their own right. Engaging with the nove ...
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    161,50 €

  • Apocalyptic Transformation
    Elizabeth K Rosen / Elizabeth K. Rosen / Elizabeth KRosen
    Since its inception, the story of the apocalypse has been used as a means by which to understand the world and one’s place in it. The appeal of the apocalyptic myth is largely rooted in its ability to make sense of instances of crisis by incorporating those crises into a larger plan for history and an end of time that God has planned. Apocalypse is both an organizing principle ...
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    145,74 €

  • Apocalyptic Transformation
    Elizabeth K. Rosen / Elizabeth KRosen
    Since its inception, the story of the apocalypse has been used as a means by which to understand the world and one’s place in it. The appeal of the apocalyptic myth is largely rooted in its ability to make sense of instances of crisis by incorporating those crises into a larger plan for history and an end of time that God has planned. Apocalypse is both an organizing principle ...
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    66,84 €

  • Zombie Culture
    Why have zombies resonated so pervasively in the popular imagination and in media, especially films? Why have they proved to be one of the most versatile and popular monster types in the growing video game industry? What makes zombies such widespread symbols of horror and dread, and how have portrayals of zombies in movies changed and evolved to fit contemporary fears, anxietie...
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    86,15 €

  • The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition
    Martin Simonson
    When The Lord of the Rings was published in the 1950’s it did not sit comfortably among any preconceived notions of literary genre. The critical responses reflected the confusion: for some, it was an unwelcome reappearance of narrative standards that modernism was supposed to have done away with, or just a bad novel. Others considered it a refreshing work in the epic and romanc...
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    30,60 €

  • The English Romance in Time Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare
    Helen Cooper
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    83,17 €

  • One Earth, One People
    Marek Oziewicz
    This work presents the genre of mythopoeic fantasy from a holistic perspective, arguing that this central genre of fantasy literature is largely misunderstood as a result of decades of incomplete and reductionist literary studies. The author asserts that mythopoeic fantasy is not only the most complete literary expression of a worldview based on the existence of supernatural or...
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    42,66 €

  • Anthony Boucher
    Jeffrey Marks
    American author, editor, and critic William Parker White, better known to most as Anthony Boucher, made countless contributions to the fields of mystery and science fiction. After beginning his career as a mystery writer at 16, Boucher went on to become a New York Times mystery critic, a host for several radio programs, and the founding editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Sc...
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    79,46 €

  • Holy Superheroes!
    Greg Garrett
    Spider-Man. Batman. The X-Men. The Fantastic Four. Comic books and the characters they have spawned have become twenty-first-century mythology. Greg Garrett helps us see the profound depth that can be found in the glossy, fast-paced, and often violent world of comics, graphic novels, and the films they inspire. Holy Superheroes! provides extensive discussions of some of our mos...
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    19,56 €

  • An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett
    Andrew Butler
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    81,39 €

  • Asian Gothic
    Andrew Hock Soon Ng
    The essays in this collection acknowledge the rich Gothic tradition in Asian narratives that deal with themes of the fantastic, the macabre, and the spectral. Through close analyses of Asian works using the theoretical framework outlined by Gothic criticism, these essays seek to expand the notion of the Gothic to include several popular Asian works. Broadly divided into essays ...
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    42,74 €

  • Fluent in Fantasy
    Bonnie Kunzel
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    102,99 €

  • The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature
    Brian J. Frost / Brian JFrost
    Few historical relics have exerted such a hold on our imaginations as the mummy. In 1834, Thomas J. Pettigrew’s A History of Egyptian Mummies was the first scholarly work wholly devoted to the subject, providing, for its time, a remarkable analysis of the different mummification techniques used by the ancient embalmers. Such volumes of serious nonfiction have been supplemented ...
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    128,95 €

  • Havoc in the Hub
    Peter Wolfe
    Havoc in the Hub brings to light the long-neglected work of George V. Higgins, revealing the wealth of intellectual, social, literary, and religious thought that underlies his 25 novels and numerous other works. Higgins’s writing, fed by equal parts wit and sorrow, touches our senses, emotions, and minds. Peter Wolfe makes a resounding contribution to the study of this writer. ...
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    123,96 €

  • Havoc in the Hub
    Peter Wolfe
    Havoc in the Hub brings to light the long-neglected work of George V. Higgins, revealing the wealth of intellectual, social, literary, and religious thought that underlies his 25 novels and numerous other works. HigginsOs writing, fed by equal parts wit and sorrow, touches our senses, emotions, and minds. Peter Wolfe makes a resounding contribution to the study of this writer. ...
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    60,28 €

  • Beyond Window-Dressing? Canadian Children’s Fantasy at the Millennium
    K.V. Johansen / K.VJohansen / KVJohansen
    In the late twentieth century, Canadian children’s fantasy had a poor reputation internationally. Was this reputation deserved, and if so, has the quality of children’s fantasy and the climate for its publication improved since that time? After a survey of twentieth-century Canadian children’s fantasy, Beyond Window-Dressing examines these questions through an extensive cross-s...
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    22,48 €


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