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  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Order of the Garter
    Francis Ingledew
    Francis Ingledew’s book makes the case that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the canonical works of medieval English literature, should be recognized as a response to King Edward III’s foundation in 1349 of the chivalric Order of the Garter. As well as providing the basis for a thorough reinterpretation of the poem’s purposes and meanings, this argument dates to the mid-...
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    143,19 €

  • Literary Galaxy of Star Trek
    James F Broderick
    How is the android Data like Shakespeare's character Hamlet? Is the vengeful Khan (original series episode "Space Seed" and the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) an echo of Captain Ahab in Moby Dick? The links between Star Trek and literature are vast: themes and characters that reflect those in classic literature; characters that quote literature in their dialog; and a...
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    42,80 €

  • When the Fires Burn High and The Wind is From the North
    Robert J. Ewald
    Born in 1904, Clifford D. Simak sold his first science fiction story in 1930, and was soon publishing widely in the pulp magazines. He also pursued a separate career as a journalist and writer on science and other popular topics. He gained widespread fame in the SF world with the first of his series of 'City' stories, published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1944; these were ...
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    34,87 €

  • When the Fires Burn High and The Wind is From the North
    Robert J. Ewald
    Born in 1904, Clifford D. Simak sold his first science fiction story in 1930, and was soon publishing widely in the pulp magazines. He also pursued a separate career as a journalist and writer on science and other popular topics. He gained widespread fame in the SF world with the first of his series of 'City' stories, published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1944; these were ...
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    19,00 €

  • Stealing Through Time
    Jack Seabrook
    The writings of twentieth-century author Jack Finney are classic contributions to the genres of science fiction and suspense thrillers in American literature. Two of Finney’s novels, The Body Snatchers and Good Neighbor Sam, became the basis of popular films, but it was his time-travel story Time and Again (1970) that won him a devoted following. The novel about an advertising ...
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    42,84 €

  • Inside Science Fiction
    James EGunn / James Gunn
    James Gunn has had a long and distinguished career in science fiction. In addition to his stories and novels, he has written extensively about the reading, writing, and criticism of science fiction. Many of these essays were published in The Science of Science-Fiction Writing (Scarecrow, 2002). A second collection of essays, Inside Science Fiction, was originally published in 1...
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    81,82 €

  • Folktales Retold
    Amie A. Doughty
    Folktales and fairy tales are living stories; as part of the oral tradition, they change and evolve as they are retold from generation to generation. In the last thirty years, however, revision has become an art form of its own, with tales intentionally revised to achieve humorous effect, send political messages, add different cultural or regional elements, try out new narrativ...
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    42,89 €

  • Shelley and the Revolution in Taste
    Morton Timothy / Timothy Morton
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    58,84 €

  • Contesting the Gothic
    James Watt
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    55,32 €

  • Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction
    The image of the hard-boiled private investigator from gritty pulp fiction, a terse and mysterious figure, has become increasingly universal as the detective novel crosses more and more borders. A booming genre in Latin America, Spain and other Hispanic cultures, detective fiction has transcended the limitations of its influences. Hispanic authors relatively new to the genre h...
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    72,02 €

  • Understanding Humor in Japan
    Jessica Milner Davis
    Japanese conventions about comedy and laughter are largely unanalyzed. For many students of Japanese culture and visitors to Japan, Japanese humor seems obscure, incomprehensible, paradoxical, and even nonexistent. By bringing together scholarly insights and original research by both Japanese and non-Japanese experts, Jessica Milner Davis bridges the differences between humor i...
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    48,44 €

  • Lovecraft's New York Circle
    The Kalem Club was one of the great literary partnerships in American literature. Taking shape even before H. P. Lovecraft arrived in Brooklyn in 1924, the group featured some of the most distinctive figures of their day: George Kirk, genial bookseller and collector; Rheinhart Kleiner, a worldly versifier and man about town; Samuel Loveman, exquisitely refined poet and friend o...
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    14,99 €

  • The Bradbury Chronicles
    Sam Weller
    Accomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and longtime friends. With unprecedented access to private archives, he uncovered never-before-published letters, documents, and photographs that help tell the story of this literary ...
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    13,95 €

  • de Quincey’s Romanticism
    Margaret Russett
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    56,24 €

  • Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity
    Andrew Bennett
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    41,97 €

  • Romantic Identities
    Andrea K. Henderson / Andrea KHenderson
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    39,66 €

  • British Satire and the Politics of Style, 1789 1832
    Gary Dyer
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    56,38 €

  • Romanticism and the Gothic
    Gamer Michael / Michael Gamer
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    55,08 €

  • Cracking the Hard-Boiled Detective
    Lewis D Moore
    The hard-boiled private detective is among the most recognizable characters in popular fiction since the 1920s--a tough product of a violent world, in which police forces are inadequate and people with money can choose private help when facing threatening circumstances. Though a relatively recent arrival, the hard-boiled detective has undergone steady development and assumed di...
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    42,54 €

  • Mordecai Richler
    Ada Craniford
    Shoveling Trouble in the Stables of the Lord’He has no skin, only blood.He wants to bleed for everybody.'If the smell of the stable repels you;If you don’t like trouble; If conflicted attitudes toward God and the Bible bother you; Stay away from this book.If you prefer writers who keep their skin on; If you’re not into vengeance, parody, or satire; If you can’t laugh uproarious...
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    19,90 €

  • The Freedom of Fantastic Things
    Scott Connors
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    50,14 €

  • The Freedom of Fantastic Things
    Scott Connors
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    21,53 €

  • The Monster in the Mirror
    Robert H. Waugh
    During the past three decades, Robert H. Waugh has established himself as a leading scholar on H. P. Lovecraft. Bringing to the study of Lovecraft a remarkable breadth of knowledge in literature, aesthetics, history, and philosophy, Waugh has approached his subject with sensitivity and nuance. In this volume of his collected essays on Lovecraft, the reader will learn of the imp...
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    21,85 €

  • The Cult of Alien Gods
    Jason Colavito
    Many Americans believe that so-called ancient astronauts (visitors from outer space) were responsible for historical wonders like the pyramids. This entertaining and informative book traces the origins of such beliefs to the work of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). The author takes the reader through fifty years of pop culture and pseudoscience highlighting such influ...
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    18,66 €

  • Reading The Lord of the Rings
    Robert Eaglestone
    J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is one of the most popular books of the twentieth century and the recent film adaptations have made box office records. This book provides a comprehensive critical and theoretical analysis of both the book and films. Beginning with an introduction to the critical history of Tolkien’s work, the book offers different ways of reading the work...
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    60,34 €

  • Partners in Wonder
    Eric Leif Davin
    Partners in Wonder revolutionizes our knowledge of women and early science fiction. Davin finds that at least 203 female authors published over a thousand stories in science fiction magazines between 1926 and 1965. This work explores the distinctly different form of science fiction that females wrote, offers a comprehensive bibliography of these works, and provides biographies ...
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    81,20 €

  • Mapping the World of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice
    Mercedes Lackey
    From the Dursleys as social commentary to a look at Snape’s role in less than child-friendly fanfiction . . . from the parallels between Azkaban and Abu Ghraib to the role of religion at Hogwarts . . . from why Dumbledore had to die to why killing Harry never should have been part of Voldemort’s plan to begin with . . . Mapping the World of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice offers a co...
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    22,68 €

  • The Sex Column and other misprints
    David Langford
    David Langford has written for every issue of SFX, the top-selling British magazine about science fiction, since its launch in 1995. His sparkling column-imaginatively titled 'Langford'-is notoriously the first page readers turn to. Now at last, The SEX Column collects over 130 instalments and extra features in book form. ...
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    37,29 €

  • Xenograffiti
    Robert Reginald
    In this new retrospective collection spanning almost forty years, Pilgrim Award- and Collector’s Award-winning fantasy novelist, critic, and bibliographer Robert Reginald contributes forty-five essays on writers of fantastic literature, including such major and minor figures as: Piers Anthony, Edwin Lester Arnold, Margaret Atwood, John Kendrick Bangs, Leslie Barringer, John Be...
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    24,72 €

  • Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction
    Lee Horsley
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    69,26 €


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