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  • Friendship in The Lord of the Rings
    Cristina Casagrande
    The Lord of The Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien, involves many characters with a common goal: the destruction of the Ring of Power. They connect with each other through their individual journeys and become friends.This book analyses how friendship in Tolkien’s seminal work collaborates in the development of the characters, as well as contributing to the success of their final goal.U...
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    29,07 €

  • Dragon Ball Cultura Volumen 2
    Derek Padula
    ¡La aventura de Son Gokū comienza! Únete a mí en Dragon Ball Cultura Volumen 2, pues viajaremos junto a Gokū en un viaje épico en busca de una fuerza mayor.Con cada paso que da Gokū, descubrirás mucho más sobre la espiritualidad oculta y el simbolismo que encontramos en Dragon Ball, algo que hace de la serie un gran éxito. Verás cómo el autor, Akira Toriyama, sintetiza la cultu...
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    20,79 €

  • 78 rpm - Fake
    José G. Cordonié / José GCordonié
    JOSÉ G. CORDONIÉInventor de ficciones, que nació en La Coruña (1967) y reside en Madrid, donde desarrolla su labor profesional en el sector de automoción.Ha publicado las siguientes obras: Las baladas de Morotropium, narración poética finalista del premio La Nunca Poesía (Ediciones Oblicuas, 2012), 26 [Veintiséis], obra ganadora del III Premio Wilkie Collins de Novela Negra (M....
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    15,09 €

  • The Gothic Literature and History of New England
    Faye Ringel
    The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the origin, nature and future of the Gothic mode in New England’s history and literature, from the Puritans to the present, showing how the legacy of religious intolerance, racism and misogyny haunts fiction, film and popular culture. ...
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    36,02 €

  • The Truman Gumshoes
    J.K. Van Dover
    The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to move him (the tough detective was still always male) and his world in new directio...
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    79,57 €

  • Cordones pareados
    Paco Huelva
    Paco Huelva nació en Almonte (Huelva) en 1956. Ha publicado nueve libros de narrativa. Es articulista de opinión y ejerce la crítica literaria en las páginas culturales de diversos periódicos y revistas. Es consejero de la Asociación Internacional Humanismo Solidario (de la que fue cofundador). Consejero de la Asociación Colegial de Escritores de España (Sección de Andalucía) y...
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    20,00 €

  • DE HOMBRES Y OTROS MONSTRUOS: Los mitos modernos de Frankenstein y Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
    Martin Simonson
    En la tercera década del siglo XXI, marcada por debates y miedos cada vez más insistentes en torno a los peligros de la inteligencia artificial, la modificación genética y las múltiples identidades generadas en redes sociales, Frankenstein y Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde son más vigentes que nunca. En este ensayo, Martin Simonson explica el tipo de sociedad que vio nacer a estos dos mi...
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    14,55 €

  • J.R.R. Tolkien: Historia, Leyenda, Mito
    Eduardo Segura
    La mitología inventada por J.R.R. Tolkien posee una cualidad intrínseca que la diferencia de otros mundos imaginarios: es profundamente verosímil. Tal coherencia hunde las raíces de su credibilidad última en los idiomas ideados por el autor desde sus años universitarios en Oxford. Pero hay algo incluso más profundo. El modo en que historia, leyenda y mito se funden en una sínte...
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    20,79 €

  • Gothic Kernow
    Ruth Heholt / Tanya Krzywinska
    Focussing on written and visual culture that is made in or made about Cornwall, this book argues that Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as ’Kernow’ in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic. ...
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    35,76 €

  • Literatura y sociedad en el Perú: la novela indigenista
    Antonio Cornejo Polar
    Literatura y sociedad en el Perú: la novela indigenista es un libro medular para comprender la fecunda dimensión de las literaturas heterogéneas. Con una gran capacidad de síntesis, Antonio Cornejo Polar traza el desarrollo del indigenismo en el Perú y estudia el impacto del referente en las novelas de Arguedas y de Alegría. Además, hace suya una larga tradición que proviene de...
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    26,00 €

  • Dorothy L. Sayers
    Eric Sandberg
    Dorothy L. Sayers was one of the ''Queens of Crime.'' Alongside writers like Agatha Christie, she perfected the whodunnit, but also used the genre to explore social, ethical, and emotional matters. Her characters, particularly Lord Peter Wimsey and his investigative partner Harriet Vane, struggle with the complexities of life and love in a rapidly changing world while solving s...
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    73,16 €

  • Drawing the Past, Volume 1
    Dorian L Alexander
    Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Dorian L. Alexander, Max Bledstein, Peter Cullen Bryan, Stephen Connor, Matthew J. Costello, Martin Flanagan, Michael Fuchs, Michael Goodrum, Bridget Keown, Kaleb Knoblach, Christina M. Knopf, Martin Lund, Jordan Newton, Stefan Rabitsch, Maryanne Rhett, and Philip Smith History has always been a matter of arranging evidence into a narrative, bu...
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    42,76 €

  • Drawing the Past, Volume 2
    Dorian L Alexander
    Contributions by Dorian L. Alexander, Chris Bishop, David Budgen, Lewis Call, Lillian Céspedes González, Dominic Davies, Sean Eedy, Adam Fotos, Michael Goodrum, Simon Gough, David Hitchcock, Robert Hutton, Iain A. MacInnes, Malgorzata Olsza, Philip Smith, Edward Still, and Jing Zhang In Drawing the Past, Volume 2: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World, contributor...
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    141,90 €

  • Drawing the Past, Volume 2
    Dorian L Alexander
    Contributions by Dorian L. Alexander, Chris Bishop, David Budgen, Lewis Call, Lillian Céspedes González, Dominic Davies, Sean Eedy, Adam Fotos, Michael Goodrum, Simon Gough, David Hitchcock, Robert Hutton, Iain A. MacInnes, Malgorzata Olsza, Philip Smith, Edward Still, and Jing Zhang In Drawing the Past, Volume 2: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World, contributor...
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    42,50 €

  • Drawing the Past, Volume 1
    Dorian L Alexander
    Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Dorian L. Alexander, Max Bledstein, Peter Cullen Bryan, Stephen Connor, Matthew J. Costello, Martin Flanagan, Michael Fuchs, Michael Goodrum, Bridget Keown, Kaleb Knoblach, Christina M. Knopf, Martin Lund, Jordan Newton, Stefan Rabitsch, Maryanne Rhett, and Philip Smith History has always been a matter of arranging evidence into a narrative, bu...
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    142,16 €

  • On Writing and Worldbuilding
    Timothy Hickson
    Following the immense success of Volume I with over 35,000 copies sold, On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume II brings a host of new topics to table in even more detail and depth. Writing advice tends to be full of ’rules’ and ’tips’ which are either too broad to be helpful or outright wrong. Aimed at specific, applicable, and practical discussions, from writing fight scenes to...
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    15,96 €

  • Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature
    Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez
    The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia-from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali. ...
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    180,72 €

  • The Villain’s Journey
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    The villain’s journey is rare in popular culture--most characters are fully-formed tyrants with little to no story arc. However, a few particularly epic series take the time to develop complex villains, including Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Increasingly, villains’ origin stories have found new popularity...
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    57,39 €

  • The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829
    Christina Morin
    A compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. ...
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    35,72 €

  • Escrito por brujas
    Antonio Ballesteros González
    A través de un fascinante periplo, Escrito por brujas recorre la vida y las obras de autoras decimonónicas representativas en el ámbito de lo fantástico y lo sobrenatural, como, entre otras, Mary Shelley (creadora de Frankenstein) y las novelistas góticas inglesas, las románticas alemanas, Charlotte y Emily Brontë, las escritoras fantásticas victorianas, las teósofas (Madame Bl...
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    20,79 €

  • Dis-Orienting Planets
    Isiah Lavender
    Contributions by Suparno Banerjee, Cait Coker, Jeshua Enriquez, Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Malisa Kurtz, Stephanie Li, Bradford Lyau, Uppinder Mehan, Graham J. Murphy, Baryon Tensor Posadas, Amy J. Ransom, Robin Anne Reid, Haerin Shin, Stephen Hong Sohn, Takayuki Tatsumi, and Timothy J. Yamamura Isiah Lavender III’s Dis-Orienting Planets amplifies critical issues surroun...
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    50,03 €

  • Speculative Modernism
    James Reitter / Robert Stauffer / William Gillard
    Speculative modernists--that is, British and American writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror during the late 19th and early 20th centuries--successfully grappled with the same forces that would drive their better-known literary counterparts to existential despair. Building on the ideas of the 19th-century Gothic and utopian movements, these speculative writers anticipat...
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    57,36 €

  • English Magic and Imperial Madness
    Peter D Mathews
    Regency England was a pivotal time of political uncertainty, with a changing monarchy, the Napoleonic Wars, and a population explosion in London. In Susanna Clarke’s fantasy novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, the era is also witness to the unexpected return of magic. Locating the consequences of this eruption of magical unreason within the context of England’s imperial his...
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    57,66 €

  • Force of the Umbrella Academy
    Lisann Anders
    Even as the major superhero film franchises appear to be exhausting their runs The Umbrella Academy demonstrates that the superhero genre is still extremely effective at creating role models with lasting psychological resonance and allegories with extraordinary emotional impact. These essays give a voice to the misunderstood family members of The Umbrella Academy in the comic b...
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    57,66 €

  • 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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    35,91 €

  • Hounded
    Vince Stadon
    'I think my wife might be right. I am going slightly mad.' Hounded is an escape from the anxiety of reaching a half-century, written during the pandemic of 2020 and into the spring of 2021, during which comedy writer Vince Stadon experienced every film, TV, audio drama, spoken word reading, documentary, stage play, pastiche, graphic novel, animation, kids cartoon, and PC game v...
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    18,39 €

  • Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton
    John C Tibbetts
    This is a critical study of the great British man of letters G.K. Chesterton, devoted to the novels, stories and essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination. Everything is different in the dark, wrote Chesterton; perhaps you don’t know how terrible a truth that is. Chesterton’s use of the theme of gargoyles provides the thematic structure of the book. It cove...
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    80,51 €

  • Nineteenth Century Detective Fiction
    Leroy Lad Panek
    In English and American cultures, detective fiction has a long and illustrious history. Its origins can be traced back to major developments in Anglo-American law, like the concept of circumstantial evidence and the rise of lawyers as heroic figures. Edgar Allen Poe’s writings further fueled this cultural phenomenon, with the use of enigmas and conundrums in his detective stori...
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    79,57 €

  • Idios kosmos. Claves para Philip K. Dick.
    Pablo Capanna
    A casi cuarenta años de su muerte, la fama de Philip K. Dick ha crecido tan desmesuradamente como la trama de una de sus novelas. Dick es uno de los pocos escritores de la ciencia ficción que no necesitan ser presentados, porque trascienden al género. Para muchos, él es quien mejor lo representa. Películas como Blade Runner de Scott, Total Recall de Verhoeven, Minority Report d...
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    16,01 €

  • El Señor de la Tarde. Un ensayo sobre Cordwainer Smith.
    Pablo Capanna
    Cordwainer Smith fue uno de los autores más deslumbrantes de la Ciencia Ficción de todos los tiempos. Creador de un universo único y coherente, imaginó una civilización (la saga de la instrumentalidad) que se extendería a lo largo de 15.000 años. Planteó ideas audaces e inquietantes por ejemplo, la modificación y la creación genética de seres humanos; poseedor de una poética in...
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    16,00 €


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