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  • Lost in Space
    Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. For many theorists science fiction opens up a space in which the here-and-now can be made strange or remade; where virtual reality and cyborg are no longer gimmicks or predictions, but new spaces and subjects.Lost in space brings toge...
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    66,87 €

  • The Immortal Comedy
    Agnes Heller
    This book is the first attempt to think philosophically about the comic phenomenon in literature, art, and life. Working across a substantial collection of comic works author Agnes Heller makes seminal observations on the comic in the work of both classical and contemporary figures. Whether she’s discussing Shakespeare, Kafka, Rabelais, or the paintings of Brueghel and Daumier ...
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    152,66 €

  • The Immortal Comedy
    Agnes Heller
    This book is the first attempt to think philosophically about the comic phenomenon in literature, art, and life. Working across a substantial collection of comic works author Agnes Heller makes seminal observations on the comic in the work of both classical and contemporary figures. Whether she’s discussing Shakespeare, Kafka, Rabelais, or the paintings of Brueghel and Daumier ...
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    64,07 €

  • Classics of Fantastic Literature
    R. Reginald / Robert Menville / Robert Reginald
    The literature of science fiction, fantasy, and horror has a rich and glorious history, with roots dating back at least three hundred years to the fantastic voyage popularized by such works as Gulliver’s Travels, and continuing with an enormously varied production of novels and story collections through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Very few of these early tale...
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    19,93 €

  • Classics of Fantastic Literature
    R. Reginald / Robert Menville / Robert Reginald
    The literature of science fiction, fantasy, and horror has a rich and glorious history, with roots dating back at least three hundred years to the fantastic voyage popularized by such works as Gulliver’s Travels, and continuing with an enormously varied production of novels and story collections through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Very few of these early tales...
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    30,02 €

  • The to Z of Science Fiction Literature
    Brian Stableford
    For quick reference to the significant authors, publications, awards, and events in the field of speculative fiction turn to this handy A to Z guide. ...
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    62,73 €

  • The James Sallis Reader
    James Sallis
    The POINT BLANK READER series is dedicated to introducing you to the finest novelists in the mystery and crime fiction genres in carefully selected volumes that each include a full length novel, selected shorter fiction and other writings by the author. JAMES SALLIS is the author of the acclaimed Lew Griffin series of detective novels, multiple collections of short fiction, ess...
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    21,79 €

  • Tolkien’s Mighty Pen
    C.N. Crum / C.NCrum
    JRR Tolkien is seen by many as the greatest fiction writer in history. His work resonates through generation after generation as it tackles the great questions of life. This work is an attempt to portray the decidedly Christian nature of Tolkien’s writing. The first part of the book examines the great theme of Tolkien’s work, death and mortality. The second deals with the theol...
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    15,19 €

  • 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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    22,52 €

  • Way Into Narnia
    Peter J Schakel
    The practical companion you need for your journey through C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of NarniaHow did a middle-aged professor with no children write books that have become beloved classics of children's literature? What is the best order for reading the Chronicles of Narnia? Whatever one's question, The Way into Narnia offers valuable guidance for first-time visitors ...
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    22,67 €

  • Race and Religion in the Postcolonial British Detective Story
    Julie H. Kim
    In 1929, Ronald Knox, a prominent member of the English Detection Club, included in his tongue-in-cheek Ten Commandments for Detective Novelists the rule that ''No Chinaman must figure in the story.'' In 1983, Ruth Rendell published Speaker of Mandarin, reflecting not only a change in British detective fiction but also a dramatic change in the British cultural landscape. Like m...
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    71,96 €

  • Hal’s Worlds
    Shane Tourtellotte
    A warm tribute to the late Hal Clement, the writer, and to Harry Clement Stubbs, the man behind the pseudonym, this book brings you remembrances by friends and colleagues, a previously uncollected Hal Clement short story, an original story by Walter Hunt, an interview by Darrell Schweitzer, a reminiscence by his widow, Mary Stubbs, and many reminders of the many ways he affecte...
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    17,57 €

  • Root and Branch
    Root and Branch, which was first published in 1999, comprises articles by Patrick Curry, Thomas Honegger and Christina Ljungberg. The first paper, by Thomas Honegger, looks at a structural instance of ’depth’ in Tolkien’s work by means of discussing the various occurences of the Man in the Moon. Patrick’s Curry extensive study addresses the question of why Tolkien’s work is sim...
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    24,67 €

  • Quests and Kingdoms
    K.V. Johansen / K.VJohansen / KVJohansen
    Fantasy has become an increasingly popular genre of children’s literature in recent years; Quests and Kingdoms provides a basis from which an adult unfamiliar with the genre of children’s fantasy literature may explore it. Quests is an historical survey for the interested general reader, which will be of great practical value to library and education professionals as well. Thou...
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    24,66 €

  • Rubaiyat of Rover Khayyam
    Edward Fitzhound
    'Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of WhiteHas loosed the Flood that sets my Ears upright.'With these stirring words, Rover Khayyám, the barking bard of Philadelphia, commences his spellbinding masterpiece, a canine counterpart to the well-known Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. In seventy-five carefully crafted stanzas, Rover creates an indelible impression of what it means to be a dog a...
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    8,15 €

  • Worlds Apart?
    Dunja M. Mohr
    Literary critics and scholars have written extensively on the demise of the ''utopian spirit'' in the modern novel. What has often been overlooked is the emergence of a new hybrid subgenre, particularly in science fiction and fantasy, which incorporates utopian strategies within the dystopian narrative, particularly in the feminist dystopias of the 1980s and 1990s. The author n...
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    57,05 €

  • Rooseveltian Fact And Fable
    Annie Riley Hale
    Rooseveltian Fact and Fable is a book written by Annie Riley Hale that provides a comprehensive account of the life and legacy of former US President Theodore Roosevelt. The book is divided into several sections, each of which delves into a specific aspect of Roosevelt’s life, including his childhood, political career, and personal life. Hale draws on a wide range of sources, i...
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    30,24 €

  • American Humorists
    H. R. Haweis / HRHaweis
    American Humorists is a book written by H. R. Haweis that explores the history and evolution of humor in America. The book covers a wide range of comedic styles and genres, including satire, parody, slapstick, and more. Haweis examines the contributions of famous American humorists such as Mark Twain, Will Rogers, and James Thurber, as well as lesser-known but equally influenti...
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    29,16 €

  • The Gothic Vision
    Dani Cavallaro
    The Gothic Vision examines a broad range of tales of horror, terror, the uncanny and the supernatural, spanning the late-eighteenth century to the present, and of related theoretical approaches to the realm of dark writing. It argues that such narratives are objects for historical analysis, due to their implication in specific ideologies, whilst also focusing on the recurrence ...
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    52,41 €

  • Reconsidering Tolkien
    The nine contributions to Reconsidering Tolkien approach Tolkien’s work from a variety of theoretical viewpoints. Marion Gymnich, Eduardo Segura and Guillermo Peris discuss the importance of Language and languages for Tolkien’s narrative work, while Thomas Honegger and Paul E. Kerry focus on the historical sources and the historicising framework respectively. The essays by Nata...
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    30,79 €

  • Ignatius Rising
    Deborah George Hardy / Ren? Pol Nevils / Rene Pol Nevils
    The phenomenal success of John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces, is now legendary, a story that has long beckoned a deeper exploration into the life, imagination, and demise of the writer responsible for one of American literature's most memorable characters -- Ignatius J. Reilly. In Ignatius Rising, Ren? Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy pre...
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    19,93 €

  • Here Comes the Reign, Sir Guillaume!
    Scott Farrell
    From jester to king, Guillaume sees the Current Middle Ages from every angle. In his second collection of humorous stories and insightful reflections, Guillaume looks at the lighter side of castle building, jousting on ESPN, learning Arthurian mythology (with the help of tequila), and making topiary animals out of duct tape. Plus, just to prove that no subject is beyond the sco...
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    15,28 €

  • Ferocious Minds
    Damien Broderick
    Two centuries ago, the first Enlightenment failed when its dream of reason smashed into the passions and fury of stubborn humans. Without a deep, broad understanding of the world, the emerging Enlightenment was left floundering, its best impulses perverted into the bloody excess of the French Revolution. Arguably, its idealism and noble goals led directly, and shockingly, to th...
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    21,22 €

  • The Anthology At The End Of The Universe
    Glenn Yeffeth
    Every aspect of the science fiction classic The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is analyzed in a variety of quirky ways in this collection of essays. Topics include the logistics of the restaurant at the end of the universe, how the Internet is creating the real Hitchhiker’s Guide, an assessment of Vogon poetry, and an analysis of computing. The essays are written by both scie...
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    17,96 €

  • Ogden Nash
    Dana Gioia / Douglas M. Parker / Douglas MParker
    For years, readers have longed for a biography to match Nash’s charm, wit, and good nature; now we have it in Douglas Parker’s absorbing and delightful life of the poet. ...
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    23,12 €

  • I Am the Other
    Maria Ferreira
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    95,18 €

  • The Burroughs Cyclopædia
    Clark A. Brady
    Edgar Rice Burroughs was not satisfied with creating characters and events within the world that we know; instead he created whole new worlds for histories, and he filled them with peoples, languages, cities, wars, plants, machines, and monsters that were believable to the reader, yet still alien and fantastic enough to thrill and delight. From A-Kor, the keeper of the Towers...
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    42,11 €

  • Isaac Asimov
    James Gunn
    Updates and expands science fiction scholar James Gunn’s definitive, Hugo Award-winning critical volume about Isaac Asimov and his contributions to the science fiction genre. ...
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    79,11 €

  • The Semi-Complete Guide to Sort of Being a Gentleman
    Esquire Sir Gentleman Brock Laborde
    The Semi-Complete Guide to Sort of Being a Gentleman might be the most irresponsible book written since The Bible. And a bible it is, in its own right, for the billions of men alive today who have no clue how to behave in public or private situations.Drawing from literally thousands of his countless private journals and personal scribblings, author Sir Gentleman Brock LaBorde, ...
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    13,24 €

  • Dorothy L. Sayers
    Alzina Stone Dale
    1993 marked the 100th birthday of Dorothy L. Sayers and in her honor Dale gathered a baker’s dozen of the finest and most popular mystery writers from the United States and United Kingdom who discuss the way Sayers taught them their trade. The collection was nominated for Malice Domestic’s non-fiction Agatha Award. ...
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    18,67 €


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