wyszukanych pozycji: 11
The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780786435036 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Considers the development of science fiction for children and teens between 1950 and 2010, exploring why it differs from science fiction aimed at adults. This book sheds light on changing attitudes toward children and teenagers, toward science education, and toward the authors' expectations and sociological views of their audience.
Considers the development of science fiction for children and teens between 1950 and 2010, exploring why it differs from science fiction aimed at adul...
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210,56 zł |
Diana Wynne Jones: The Fantastic Tradition and Children's Literature
ISBN: 9780415970235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and exciting stories of wizard's academies, dragons, and griffins-many published for children but read by all ages-are also complexly structured and thought provoking critiques of the fantasy tradition. This is the first serious study of Jones's work, written by a renowned science fiction critic and historian. In addition to providing an overview of Jones's work, Farah Mendlesohn also examines Jones's...
British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writer...
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696,20 zł |
Diana Wynne Jones: The Fantastic Tradition and Children's Literature
ISBN: 9780415872898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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247,49 zł |
Creating Memory: Historical Fiction and the English Civil Wars
ISBN: 9783030545369 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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464,77 zł |
On Joanna Russ
ISBN: 9780819569028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Joanna Russ, a feminist writer best known for The Female Man (1975), has produced a fierce, intense body of fiction and essays whose influence has been wide-ranging and complex. Her many publications include How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983), and she has won both of science fiction's most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo. The essays in this volume examine every aspect of Russ's body of work and provide a critical assessment that is long overdue. The first part of the book, "Criticism and Community," gives readers a context for and overview of Russ's works, and includes...
Joanna Russ, a feminist writer best known for The Female Man (1975), has produced a fierce, intense body of fiction and essays whose influence has bee...
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113,20 zł |
A Short History of Fantasy
ISBN: 9781907471667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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65,09 zł |
Rhetorics of Fantasy
ISBN: 9780819568687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct their fantastic worlds. Mendlesohn posits four categories of fantasy--portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal--that arise out of the relationship of the protagonist to the fantasy world. Using these sets, Mendlesohn argues that the author's stylistic decisions are then shaped by the inescapably...
Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the g...
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110,88 zł |
Creating Memory: Historical Fiction and the English Civil Wars
ISBN: 9783030545390 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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464,77 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780521816267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is literature which draws on popular culture, and engages in speculation about science, history, and all varieties of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from different angles. It examines science fiction from Thomas More to the present day; and introduces important critical approaches (including Marxism, postmodernism, feminism and queer theory).
Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is literature which draws on popular culture, and engages in speculation about science, ...
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709,35 zł |
A Short History of Fantasy
ISBN: 9781904750680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A history of the fantasy form, this work traces the genre from the earliest years with "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and "The Odyssey" through to the origins of modern fantasy in the 20th century with such acclaimed writers as Terry Pratchett and J. K. Rowling. An exploration of the great variety of fiction published under the heading "fantasy," this engaging study seeks to explain its continuing and ever growing popularity.
A history of the fantasy form, this work traces the genre from the earliest years with "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and "The Odyssey" through to the origin...
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104,21 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780521016575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is literature which draws on popular culture, and engages in speculation about science, history, and all varieties of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from different angles. It examines science fiction from Thomas More to the present day; and introduces important critical approaches (including Marxism, postmodernism, feminism and queer theory).
Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is literature which draws on popular culture, and engages in speculation about science, ...
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198,37 zł |