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The Shining
ISBN: 9781844576395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Roger Luckhurst's study of Kubrick's dark masterpiece 'The Shining' illuminates the film's themes, tropes and resonances through a detailed analysis of sequences and performances. Taking the maze as a key motif, Luckhurst offers numerous threads with which to navigate the strange twists and turns along the corridors of this enigmatic film.
Roger Luckhurst's study of Kubrick's dark masterpiece 'The Shining' illuminates the film's themes, tropes and resonances through a detailed a...
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67,50 zł |
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The Invention of Telepathy
ISBN: 9780199249626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The belief in telepathy is still widely held and yet it remains much disputed by scientists. Roger Luckhurst explores the origins of the term in the late nineteenth century. Telepathy mixed physical and mental sciences, new technologies and old superstitions, and it fascinated many famous people in the late Victorian era: Sigmund Freud, Thomas Huxley, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde. This is an exciting and accessible study, written for general readers as much as scholars and students.
The belief in telepathy is still widely held and yet it remains much disputed by scientists. Roger Luckhurst explores the origins of the term in the l...
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843,29 zł |
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Zombies: A Cultural History: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9781780236698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Add a gurgling moan with the sound of dragging feet and a smell of decay and what do you get? Better not find out. The zombie has roamed with dead-eyed menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore and superstition to global status today, the star of films such as28 Days Later, World War Z, and the outrageously successful comic book, TV series, and video game The Walking Dead. In this brain-gripping history, Roger Luckhurst traces the permutations of thezombie through our culture and imaginations, examining the undead s ability to remain defiantly alive.
Luckhurst... Add a gurgling moan with the sound of dragging feet and a smell of decay and what do you get? Better not find out. The zombie has roamed with dead-eye...
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61,19 zł |
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Alien
ISBN: 9781844577880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Alien, that legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, was born out of a terrible monster movie script called Star Beast. Tracing the constellation of talents that came together to produce the film, this book explores how and why this interstellar slasher movie, this old dark house in space, came to coil itself around our darkest imaginings.
Alien, that legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, was born out of a terrible monster movie script called Star Beast. Tracing the constellati...
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67,50 zł |
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Gothic: An Illustrated History
ISBN: 9780500252512 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych.
Over the centuries the Gothic has been revived and rewritten to reflect the anxieties of each era. It encompasses the weird, the feared and the uncanny; haunted places and people; and monsters that act as mirrors to ourselves and society. In this lavishly illustrated volume Roger Luckhurst explores how the Gothic began in the margins of history and seeped into mainstream global culture today. Over the centuries the Gothic has been revived and rewritten to reflect the anxieties of each era. It encompasses the weird, the feared and the u... |
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153,09 zł |
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Corridors: Passages of Modernity
ISBN: 9781789140538 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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164,12 zł |
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The Mummy's Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy
ISBN: 9780198718802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the sponsor of the expedition, died in Egypt. The popular press went wild with rumours of a curse on those who disturbed the Pharaoh's rest and for years followed every twist and turn of the fate of the men who had been involved in the historic discovery. Long dismissed by Egyptologists, the mummy's curse remains a part of popular supernatural belief. Roger Luckhurst explores why the myth has captured...
In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb...
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99,79 zł |
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Gothic: An Illustrated History
ISBN: 9780691229164 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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161,23 zł |
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The Trauma Question
ISBN: 9780415402712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this book, Roger Luckhurst both introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of trauma have become a major element in contemporary Western conceptions of the self. The Trauma Question outlines the origins of the concept of trauma across psychiatric, legal and cultural-political sources from the 1860s to the coining of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in 1980. It further explores the nature and extent of 'trauma culture' from 1980 to the present, drawing upon a range of cultural practices from literature, memoirs... In this book, Roger Luckhurst both introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of tra... |
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197,43 zł |
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The Cambridge Companion to Dracula
ISBN: 9781316607084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A new collection of essays that offers exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.
A new collection of essays that offers exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.
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104,72 zł |
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Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present
ISBN: 9780582312043 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Aims to provide evidence of the way in which the literature of the 1990s is constantly engaging in questions of memory and history and the representation of time in the present day. Included are essays on key texts of the 1990s, from Graham Swift's "Last Orders" to Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres".
Aims to provide evidence of the way in which the literature of the 1990s is constantly engaging in questions of memory and history and the representat...
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259,80 zł |
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The Mummy's Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy
ISBN: 9780199698714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the sponsor of the expedition, died in Egypt. The popular press went wild with rumours of a curse on those who disturbed the Pharaoh's rest and for years followed every twist and turn of the fate of the men who had been involved in the historic discovery. Long dismissed by Egyptologists, the mummy's curse remains a part of popular supernatural belief. Roger Luckhurst explores why the myth has captured...
In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb...
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117,03 zł |
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The Cambridge Companion to Dracula
ISBN: 9781107153172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A new collection of essays that offers exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.
A new collection of essays that offers exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.
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375,56 zł |
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Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780745628936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces and explicates major works of science fiction literature by placing them in a series of contexts, using the history of science and technology, political and economic history, and cultural theory to develop the means for understanding the unique qualities of the genre.
Luckhurst reads science fiction as a literature of modernity. His astute analysis examines how the genre provides a... In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its ...
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171,58 zł |
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Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780745628929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces and explicates major works of science fiction literature by placing them in a series of contexts, using the history of science and technology, political and economic history, and cultural theory to develop the means for understanding the unique qualities of the genre.
Luckhurst reads science fiction as a literature of modernity. His astute analysis examines how the genre provides a... In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its ...
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328,23 zł |
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The Time Machine
ISBN: 9780198707516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. At a Victorian dinner party in Richmond, London, the Time Traveler returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankind's future in the year 802,701 AD. It is a dystopian vision of Darwinian evolution, with humans split into an above-ground species of Eloi, and their troglodyte brothers.
The first book H. G. Wells published, The Time Machine is a scientific romance that helped invent the genre of science fiction and the time travel story. Even before its serialization had finished in the spring of 1895, Wells had been declared "a man of genius," and the book heralded a fifty year... At a Victorian dinner party in Richmond, London, the Time Traveler returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankind's future in the year 802,701 AD. ...
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35,68 zł |
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King Solomon's Mines
ISBN: 9780198722953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 'Don't you see that we are buried alive?'
When Allan Quatermain is approached by Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good to search for Sir Henry's missing brother, deep in the African interior, he agrees to lead their expedition. Quatermain has a map to the fabled King Solomon's Mines, whose treasure the missing man sought to attain. Their journey takes them to Kukuanaland, where they find a warrior tribe in thrall to King Twala. Soon the white men are embroiled in a desperate tribal battle, and Quatermain's expedition can only reach its goal with the aid of Gagool, the ancient... 'Don't you see that we are buried alive?'
When Allan Quatermain is approached by Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good to search for Sir He... |
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40,78 zł |
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Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
ISBN: 9781399519182 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. An often overlooked collection in Arthur Conan Doyle's career, these tales actually track the vital moment in his life when he decided to shift careers from provincial medic to celebrated London author
An often overlooked collection in Arthur Conan Doyle's career, these tales actually track the vital moment in his life when he decided to shift career...
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510,30 zł |
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The Trauma Question
ISBN: 9780415402729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this book, Roger Luckhurst both introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of trauma have become a major element in contemporary Western conceptions of the self. The Trauma Question outlines the origins of the concept of trauma across psychiatric, legal and cultural-political sources from the 1860s to the coining of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in 1980. It further explores the nature and extent of ‘trauma culture’ from 1980 to the present, drawing upon a range of cultural practices from literature,... In this book, Roger Luckhurst both introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of tra... |
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701,59 zł |
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Literature and the Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present
ISBN: 9781138172692 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the Contemporary, in contrast, aims to provide through twelve essays evidence of the way in which the literature of the 1990s is constantly engaging in questions of memory and history and the representation of time in the present day.
The essays in the book survey theories of temporality from various cultural and philosophical standpoints, and represent critics writing from feminist, postcolonial... At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the en...
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701,59 zł |
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