Making the literary-geographical world of Sherlock Holmes: The game is afoot
ISBN: 9781837721658 / Angielski / 19-01-2025 Książka dostępna od: 19-01-2025 |
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541,70 zł |
An Inspector Calls: Made Super Super Easy
ISBN: 9781916744912 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,60 zł |
Haunted Places in England
ISBN: 9789362207883 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,64 zł |
The Cat Who...Companion: The Complete Guide to Lilian Jackson Braun's Beloved Cat Who...Mysteries with Plot Summaries, Character Lists, a Moose
ISBN: 9780425186428 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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105,11 zł |
Ian Fleming and James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007
ISBN: 9780253217431 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is a compelling and important book... that] makes a significant contribution not only to studies of Bond and Ian Fleming but also to studies of popular culture in general." Michael Berube The Cold War agent of pulp fiction and the hero of more than a dozen movies, James Bond, also known as 007, is one of pop culture s most recognizable icons. Doubtless better known from film than from Ian Fleming s novels, the character has become a lightning rod for criticism from all camps. And yet somehow his popularity remains intact. But who is James Bond? Ian Fleming and James... "This is a compelling and important book... that] makes a significant contribution not only to studies of Bond and Ian Fleming but also to studies... |
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112,97 zł |
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
ISBN: 9780425217825 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rogt."
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force prov...
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97,02 zł |
The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases
ISBN: 9780471648796 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for The Science of Sherlock Holmes
""Holmes is, first, a great detective, but he has also proven to be a great scientist, whether dabbling with poisons, tobacco ash, or tire marks. Wagner explores this fascinating aspect of his career by showing how his investigations were grounded in the cutting-edge science of his day, especially the emerging field of forensics.... Utterly compelling."" ""E. J. Wagner demonstrates that without the work of Sherlock Holmes and his... Praise for The Science of Sherlock Holmes
""Holmes is, first, a great detective, but he has also proven to be a great scientist, wheth... |
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133,20 zł |
Improbable Fiction: The Life of Mary Roberts Rinehart
ISBN: 9780822959120 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The mystery stories and other popular fiction of Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876 1958) brought her wealth and fame, but she was much more than a writer. She was a well-known American, respected and loved during a time when few women achieved national influence. Her early life was conventional enough. Trained as a nurse, she met and married a physician, with whom she had three sons. She was living the stereotypical life of a young matron in Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), when her husband s investments evaporated during a stock market crash. She began writing as a means to supplement... The mystery stories and other popular fiction of Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876 1958) brought her wealth and fame, but she was much more than a writer... |
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183,37 zł |
Reference Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction
ISBN: 9781563083808 / Angielski / Twarda / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering a broad spectrum of primary and secondary reference resources about mystery and detective fiction, this annotated bibliography focuses on all print and key electronic sources in the field that are produced in English. Organized thematically, it reviews encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, annotated guides, bibliographies, bio-bibliographies, vade mecums, compendiums, indexes, and so on. Many Web sites are also described. Lengthy, informed reviews often provide evaluative information and compare books to similar or related titles. Essential to researchers, this is a valuable... Covering a broad spectrum of primary and secondary reference resources about mystery and detective fiction, this annotated bibliography focuses on ... |
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378,53 zł |
Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction
ISBN: 9780230003392 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these novelists correspondingly challenge those aforementioned conventions.
This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case...
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192,30 zł |
John Buchan: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
ISBN: 9780786434893 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The works of Scottish politician, statesman and thriller writer John Buchan examined the nature of good and evil and explored the shifting boundaries between civilization and anarchy. Buchan published the best-selling The Thirty-Nine Steps in 1915, one of 40 novels of his long career, which also included 60 works of non-fiction. This comprehensive companion to Buchan's mystery fiction includes entries on the characters, novels, short fiction, films, themes and symbols with special attention to the serialized secret agent Richard Hannay, Buchan's most famous character. Also included are...
The works of Scottish politician, statesman and thriller writer John Buchan examined the nature of good and evil and explored the shifting boundaries ...
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288,99 zł |
Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies: Fences, Boundaries, and Fields
ISBN: 9780739131732 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study provides a wide ranging discussion of contemporary literature and cultural phenomena through the lens of ecological literary criticism, giving attention to both theoretical issues and applied critiques. In particular, it looks at popular literary genres, such as mystery and science fiction, as well as actual disasters and disaster scenarios. Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies is a timely contribution to ecological literary criticism and an insightful look into how we represent our relationship with the environment.
This study provides a wide ranging discussion of contemporary literature and cultural phenomena through the lens of ecological literary criticism, giv...
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529,94 zł |
Pictures of Ascent in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9780230619432 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With an unconventional new perspective, Anderson identifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as a journey and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material. Beginning with Poe's earliest short stories through his last fragment of imaginative prose, this book shows the path that Poe traveled as he came to understand how to transform "rudimentary" into "ultimate" life. Anderson skillfully argues that Poe's response to the existential predicament of life lies at the heart of his achievement.
With an unconventional new perspective, Anderson identifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as a journey and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transce...
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192,30 zł |
After the Rapture
ISBN: 9781615797882 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,45 zł |
In Search of the Paper Tiger: A Sociological Perspective of Myth, Formula, and the Mystery Genre in the Entertainment Print Mass Media
ISBN: 9780879723569 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author examines the process of social life and the relationship of myth, popular formula, and the mystery genre to social psychology. The book presents social construction of reality theory as a methodology upon which the structure of mass-mediated popular fiction can be examined, postulating definitions of myth and formula and advancing a new language of literary analysis that acknowledges the socially defining, democratizing experience of popular fiction. Social-psychological analysis is focused on the mystery genre and examines its taxonomy, including the supernatural, fiction noir,...
The author examines the process of social life and the relationship of myth, popular formula, and the mystery genre to social psychology. The book pre...
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52,35 zł |
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
ISBN: 9780393340396 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed as irrepressibly spirited and entertaining (Pico Iyer, Time) and a fascinating cultural survey (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast), this provocative first biography of Charlie Chan presents American history in a way that it has never been told before. Yunte Huang ingeniously traces Charlie Chan from his real beginnings as a bullwhip-wielding detective in territorial Hawaii to his reinvention as a literary sleuth and Hollywood film icon. Huang finally resurrects the honorable detective from the graveyard of detested postmodern symbols and reclaims him as the embodiment of America s rich cultural...
Hailed as irrepressibly spirited and entertaining (Pico Iyer, Time) and a fascinating cultural survey (Paul Devlin, Daily Beast), this provocative fir...
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68,52 zł |
Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies: Fences, Boundaries, and Fields
ISBN: 9780739131749 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages with the concepts of referentiality, simplicity, the nation state, and virtual reality in the first section of the book, and then goes on to interrogate these issues in contemporary environmental literature, both American and international. He concludes his argument with a discussion of the larger frames of family dynamics and un-natural disasters, such as hurricanes and global warming, ending with a chapter on the...
In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applie...
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243,34 zł |
Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film
ISBN: 9781438434049 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this extensive and authoritative study of over 300 films, Philippa Gates explores the "woman detective" figure from her pre-cinematic origins in nineteenth century detective fiction through her many incarnations throughout the history of Hollywood cinema. Through the lens of theories of gender, genre, and stardom and engaging with the critical concepts of performativity, masquerade, and feminism, Detecting Women analyzes constructions of the female investigator in the detective genre and focuses on the evolution of her representation from 1929 to today. While a popular assumption is that...
In this extensive and authoritative study of over 300 films, Philippa Gates explores the "woman detective" figure from her pre-cinematic origins in ni...
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149,79 zł |
Conversations with Walter Mosley
ISBN: 9781604739435 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing. Since the 1990 publication of his first novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley (b. 1952) has published over thirty books in a tremendous range of genres and modes: crime and detective fiction, science fiction, literary novels of ideas, character studies, political and social nonfiction, erotica, and memoir. Best known for his Easy Rawlins detective series and Socrates Fortlow series of crime novels, Mosley has created a body of... The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and... |
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161,95 zł |
Conversations with Walter Mosley
ISBN: 9781604739428 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing. Since the 1990 publication of his first novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley (b. 1952) has published over thirty books in a tremendous range of genres and modes: crime and detective fiction, science fiction, literary novels of ideas, character studies, political and social nonfiction, erotica, and memoir. Best known for his Easy Rawlins detective series and Socrates Fortlow series of crime novels, Mosley has created a body of... The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and... |
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297,41 zł |