This volume introduces a fresh exploration of Classical literature, examining its engagement with personal or collective tragedy, horrific events, and fear-inflicting episodes. It explores the different ways fear, terror, and horror have been manife...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Anthology of Global Science Fiction Origins brings together short stories from writers of science fiction from all over the world who were at the vanguard of the genre from 1872-1942....Loe edasi...
Giovanni P. Marana was probably the first writer to use the device of a series of letters written by a visitor to a foreign country. One of the first and most compelling spy stories ever written, this reprint (originally published in 1970) has been...Loe edasi...
Giving Voice to Exile in Literature aims to provide undergraduate, graduate and professional readers with a nuanced understanding of how the unique status of exile, issues of displacement, complexities of cultural identity formation, the state of in...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on global historical fiction written by and for women, approximately, in the last 30 years. Its key themes include the inner life and experiences of the female historical figure, genre-bending in historical fiction story worlds,...Loe edasi...
Over 300 anthologies of womens short stories appeared in the literary market between 1970 and 2000. This publishing phenomenon is considered for the first time in this book....Loe edasi...
Through an evocative blend of theoretical rigor and literary sensibility, Tingting Hui spotlights the melodrama of accented speecha performance that exposes the bodily nature of language, bridging the erotic and the vulnerable, the audible and the v...Loe edasi...
LInnocente (1892) is a psychological novel by the renowned Italian author Gabriele DAnnunzio. Lara Gochin Raffaelli has produced an expert new English translation of a DAnnunzios masterpiece, maintaining his lyrical rhythms and rich imagery, while...Loe edasi...
This collection which illuminates how Kings horror literature as a media form has shifted in relation to cultural understandings over time....Loe edasi...
This book presents and engages the world building capacity of legal theory through cultural legal studies of science and speculative fictions....Loe edasi...
Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from different literary genres. This book is a timely contribu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2024, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003721093)
On Shaky Ground is a modernist novel written in the late 1930s and early 1940s and was originally published in Nazi occupied Kharkiv in 1942....Loe edasi...
It is a multidisciplinary work that brings together comic studies, philosophical criticism and literary criticism to try to reconstruct this connection through the genealogical study of both little-known historical materials and ubiquitous materials...Loe edasi...
First published in 1901 and this English translation in 1970, Footprints in the Snow is one of the most popular novels in modern Japan. It is the story of the struggle of a penniless Japanese boy Shintaro Kikuchi, for education and emancipation....Loe edasi...
The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf st...Loe edasi...
Fictional languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present a multifaceted account of the literary phenomenon of glossopoesis (language invention)....Loe edasi...
The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is a field-defining collection. The editor and contributors are not only investigating the so-called Theatre of the Absurd, but wading deeply into absurdist fiction, absurdist poetry, and black, Latin/...Loe edasi...
This textbook introduces key ideas of religious studies through critical consideration of print and visual media that fall within the general category of science fiction and is a foundational text for students and instructors of religion and science...Loe edasi...
Finding the superhero genre in need of further investigation from philosophical standpoints that value excess as a creative drive, rather than denigrate it as a problem to be resolved, this book opens up discussions that highlight different approach...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jan-2024, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003702498)
This volume seeks to make explicit the concept of the victim within horror media and to examine their position in more detail, demonstrating that the necessity of their appearance within the genre does not equate to a simplicity of definition....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Dec-2023, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003719823)
Bijeg is a novel by the Croatian writer Milutin Cihlar Nehajev, here translated into English by Damir Janigro with the title Fugue. Regarded as a paramount example of Croatian literature from the Modernist era, it offers a captivating portrayal of t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Oct-2023, Kirjastus: DC Comics, ISBN-13: 9781003637608)
Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed artist Greg Smallwood team for a new, noir examination of a classic DC character!...Loe edasi...
In dialogue with posthuman thought, this book argues that Ballards fiction affirms the expansive powers of the human body to create openings in the limited present. This book also positions the transgressive private mythologies of Ballards character...Loe edasi...
This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction....Loe edasi...
This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction. The sources are accompanied by editorial commentary, and will be of great interest to stude...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jul-2023, Kirjastus: DC Comics, ISBN-13: 9781003638049)
DC s deadliest assassin gets a major upgrade, a new mission, and a new partner Black Canary? Slade Wilson joins a secret organization to take down the biggest villain!...Loe edasi...
This is the first book-length, English-language translation of the work of this high-profile, prolific New Woman writer from Northeast China....Loe edasi...
This book examines utopian/dystopian fictions enduring preoccupation with memory, asserting through readings of seminal texts that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the genre as well as vital so...Loe edasi...
The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity of Chinese society to conceive of the future....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Apr-2023, Kirjastus: DC Comics, ISBN-13: 9781003638025)
A new Man of Steel for a new era! Jonathan Kent dons his father s cape as the 21st century Superman, from the bestselling writer of DCeased and Injustice!...Loe edasi...
Christian Isobel Johnstones Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815. In her novel, Johnstone engages with themes on British imperial expansion, metropolitan Englands economic and political relationships with the Celtic peripheries, and the...Loe edasi...
Christian Isobel Johnstones Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815. In her novel, Johnstone engages with themes on British imperial expansion, metropolitan Englands economic and political relationships with the Celtic peripheries, and the...Loe edasi...
Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecrafts influence in contemporary times....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2021, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780367855642)
This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master, Stanisaw Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors commonly appearing in his biographies....Loe edasi...
This scholarly edition of Du Boiss 1770 novel, Theodora, A Novel, introduces readers to a unique voice in womens writing of the eighteenth century that has been undeservedly dismissed by literary history for far too long....Loe edasi...
Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: biofiction, bioimagination, and biodiscourse to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2021, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780429345357)
This book critically examines how a Hero is made, sustained, and even deformed, in contemporary cultures. It brings together diverse ideas from philosophy, mythology, religion, literature, cinema, and social media to explore how heroes are construct...Loe edasi...
Connecting William Gibsons relational model of gestalt psychology and imagery with that of the posthuman networked identities found in cyberpunk, the author draws out relations with key cultural moments of the last 40 years: postmodernism, posthuma...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jul-2021, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003058328)
This book presents a systematic study of Indian Womens Science Fiction. It critically analyses the works of Rokeya Shekhawat Hossein, Manjula Padmanabhan, Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Vandana Singh....Loe edasi...
Written in clear and accessible prose, George R. R. Martin and the Fantasy Form is a timely work which encourages a reassessment of Martin and his approach to his most famous novels....Loe edasi...
This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions--utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and childrens fablesas responses to Darwinian anthropology after 1860....Loe edasi...
This collection explores the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in key narratives written in the second decade of the 21st century. From a critical posthumanist perspective the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic...Loe edasi...
Ecofeminist Science Fiction explores the origins of human-caused environmental change in the twin oppressions of women and of nature, driven by patriarchal power and ideologies....Loe edasi...
By examining the links between the destruction of the environment and the domination of women, Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond provides the tools to counteract those intertwined oppressions, helping create a foundation for a truly habitabl...Loe edasi...
In Homemaking for the Apocalypse, Jill E. Anderson interrogates patterns of Atomic Age conformity that controlled the domestic practices and private activities of Americans....Loe edasi...
