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Respecting the Stand: A Critical Analysis of Stephen King's Apocalyptic Novel
ISBN: 9780786470013 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many academics dismiss Stephen King as a mere genre writer, an over-glorified bestseller who appeals to the masses, but lacks literary merit. This critical analysis of King's epic novel The Stand makes a case for the horror master as a literary writer. A careful consideration of The Stand's abstract themes, characters, setting, and text reveals how King's work brims with the literary techniques that critics expect of a serious writer and the haunting questions that mark enduring literature. A thoughtful deliberation on so-called "escapist" fiction in the world of literature as well as an...
Many academics dismiss Stephen King as a mere genre writer, an over-glorified bestseller who appeals to the masses, but lacks literary merit. This cri...
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Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780819568847 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it uses the future as a means of talking about the present and its potentiality. By recognizing a text's specific "difference," we begin to see the quality of its particulars. Through riveting analyses of works by Joanna Russ, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, and Thomas M. Disch, Delany reveals critical strategies for reading that move beyond overwrought theorizing and formulaic thinking. Throughout, the author performs the kinds of careful inquiry...
In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it use...
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Styles of Creation: Aesthetic Technique and the Creation of Fictional Worlds
ISBN: 9780820314556 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The impetus behind this collection of original essays is the tension between the aesthetic emphasis on stylistics in science fiction and fantasy writing and the critical limitations imposed by prevailing literary theory. From a variety of perspectives, the contributors show how a new, or expanded, set of methods and models can enrich critical exchange within the genre and between it and other types of fiction. The focus of the book is not entirely on critical restraints but also on the genre's robustly subversive, creative drive--its unwillingness or inability to pause for critical... The impetus behind this collection of original essays is the tension between the aesthetic emphasis on stylistics in science fiction and fantasy wr... |
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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
ISBN: 9780307741769 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake engagingly explores her lifelong relationship to science fiction, both as a reader and as a writer. The author of The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake engagingly explores her lifelong relationship to science fiction, both as a read... |
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Scotland as Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781611484267 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes progress through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? Left behind by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can seem a futuristic fiction itself. This book explores the tensions between science and a particular society that produce an innovative science fiction. Essays consider Scottish thermodynamics, Celtic...
Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes progress through technology, advanced mental...
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Where No Man has Gone Before : Essays on Women and Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780415521253 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women? To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics? What has been the effect of this phenomenon upon the academic establishment and the publishing industry? These are just some of the questions addressed by this collection of original essays by women writers, readers and critics of the genre. But the undoubted existence of a recent surge of women's interest in science fiction is by no means the full...
How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women? To what extent is the increasing n...
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Inside Language
ISBN: 9783905703207 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tolkien's views on language, though never published as a formalised theory, were in some aspects rather 'heretic' (to use Tom Shippey's term) and seemed to fly into the face of 'established' linguistic theory - most notably his conception of 'native (hereditary) language' and, related to it, the idea of 'linguistic aesthetic' and 'phonetic fitness'. Unfortunately, this aspect of Tolkien's linguistic work has, as yet, not received the attention it deserves and Ross Smith is one of the first Tolkien scholars to investigate the question of Tolkien's position on language vis-a-vis the then (and...
Tolkien's views on language, though never published as a formalised theory, were in some aspects rather 'heretic' (to use Tom Shippey's term) and seem...
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Warriors of the Tao: The Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature
ISBN: 9781434435361 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature is one of the worlds leading journals of science fiction. Warriors of the Tao includes 16 essays from this landmark (but little-known) review, distilling its witty and sometimes controversial dialogue about fantastic writing during the last third of a century, including such topics as: the NON-sf writing of Philip K. Dick, sex with an intelligent ape, Cordwainer Smiths astonishing instrumentality and Underpeople stories, Gerald Murnanes unsettling alternate history in The Plains, and many others. The contributors include: Russell Blackford,...
Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature is one of the worlds leading journals of science fiction. Warriors of the Tao includes 16 essays f...
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Dark Alliance: Hell Dragon
ISBN: 9781452805795 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a series of short stories, Jake and his friends encounter all sorts of creatures.
In a series of short stories, Jake and his friends encounter all sorts of creatures.
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Gotham City 14 Miles: 14 Essays on Why the 1960s Batman TV Series Matters
ISBN: 9781466333055 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 1966 to 1968, both on ABC and in theaters, America embraced Batman as a campy cultural icon. But in the ensuing decades, many vilified the show as an embarrassment that needed to be swept under the rug if Batman -- and super-heroes -- were to be taken seriously. Now, we can return to Adam West's Gotham... to the unapologetic fun of colorful, cackling villains hatching bizarre schemes... to phrases like "Atomic batteries to power " and "Same bat-time, same bat-channel ..". to deadpan heroes climbing walls and defying deathtrap cliffhangers... and find these aspects rich with cultural...
From 1966 to 1968, both on ABC and in theaters, America embraced Batman as a campy cultural icon. But in the ensuing decades, many vilified the show a...
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William Gibson
ISBN: 9781557421982 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lance Olsens discerning critique was the first extended study ever published on the work of William Gibson, whose mindbending science fiction novel, Neuromancer (1984), created the subgenre of Cyberpunk, and became the first novel to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards for best SF novel of the year. Olsen covers Gibsons major early works, including Neuromancer, Burning Chrome, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. Complete with bibliography, notes, and index.
Lance Olsens discerning critique was the first extended study ever published on the work of William Gibson, whose mindbending science fiction novel, N...
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Political Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781570038471 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political Science Fiction examines the close relationship between politics and science fiction and shows how much of the former is grounded in the latter. Sixteen science fiction writers and critics join forces to offer an anthology that explores a diversity of futuristic literature, from the novels of H. G. Wells to Star Trek: The Next Generation, and a spectrum of ideas, from the libertarianism of Robert A. Heinlein to the feminism of Ursula K. LeGuin and Sheri S. Tepper. As Frederik Pohl observes in the lead essay, the contributors collectively find science fiction to be either implicitly...
Political Science Fiction examines the close relationship between politics and science fiction and shows how much of the former is grounded in the lat...
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Vultures of the Void: The Legacy
ISBN: 9781607011491 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An earlier, very much shorter version of this book was published as VULTURES OF THE VOID in 1992 by Borgo Press, along with a companion bibliographic volume, BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION PAPERBACKS AND MAGAZINES 1949-1956. Now the compiler and editor of those books, Philip Harbottle, here presents the result of his further and ongoing researches into British science fiction publishing history. This greatly expanded version includes entirely new coverage of the generic hardcover titles that briefly and paradoxically flourished alongside the indigenous British paperbacks of the early 1950's,...
An earlier, very much shorter version of this book was published as VULTURES OF THE VOID in 1992 by Borgo Press, along with a companion bibliographic ...
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The End of the World: Apocalypse and Its Aftermath in Western Culture
ISBN: 9781906924508 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Tolkien in Translation
ISBN: 9783905703153 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a linguist and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien used words and languages as a source of inspiration for his subcreation and continuously interwove them with his narratives. With language being so central to his works, the task of translating them into other languages raises numerous problems for the translator. This volume reflects on some of these challenges and how different translators overcame them.
The volume opens with a study that takes a theoretical angle on the problem of translation and considers the applicability of Tolkiens views on the matter in the light of broader translation... As a linguist and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien used words and languages as a source of inspiration for his subcreation and continuously interwove them ...
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Translating Tolkien: Text and Film
ISBN: 9783905703160 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As in the preceding volume (TolkieninTranslation), the studies presented here deal with a wide range of problems and challenges connected with the task of translating Tolkiens work. Contributions do not only discuss aspects of translation into different languages (German, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew), but also offer in-depth analysis of especially difficult areas of translation (names, Tolkiens invented languages). Moreover, with the initial publication of this volume having closely followed the release of the third and final part of the movie in 2003, it could take stock and make a first...
As in the preceding volume (TolkieninTranslation), the studies presented here deal with a wide range of problems and challenges connected with the tas...
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The Ecological Augury in the Works of JRR Tolkien
ISBN: 9783905703184 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new death for the old world, winds of industrial change that gust across green hills and dales, machines and callous hearts that dig deep into the ecosystems of Earth as trees crash upon the shrinking forest floors and ecological devastation is visited upon the land. This is the darkest hour of Middle-earth as presented in J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings - how curiously all of this resembles our reality, and the environmental crisis that threatens the modern world...
This new study, in a clear and engaging tone, explores and unfolds the environmental dimension of Tolkiens work and... A new death for the old world, winds of industrial change that gust across green hills and dales, machines and callous hearts that dig deep into the e...
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The Loss and the Silence. Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams.
ISBN: 9783905703191 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditionally, the "Inklings" C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams have been seen as separate from the literature of their time: as innovative in an idiosyncratic way at best, and as reactionary and in deliberate opposition to contemporary progressive writing at worst. Recent years have seen a gradual change in this view, but few studies to date have attempted to read Lewis, Tolkien and Williams alongside their most famous contemporaries: the literary modernists.
This monograph represents the first full-length study to draw explicit and in-depth comparisons between the Inklings and... Traditionally, the "Inklings" C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams have been seen as separate from the literature of their time: as innovat...
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Feast of Laughter 1: Issue 1
ISBN: 9780692324103 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A labor of love by inspired fans, this magazine celebrates the literature of an original American treasure, R. A. Lafferty. Praised by Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe, compared to Borges and Garcia Marquez, Lafferty eludes genres. Sanguine about the availability of his writing, Lafferty fans created this enthusiastic mosaic of conversation, critique, fiction, poetry and art. Now, it's your turn.
"The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today. By tomorrow, you may have lost something." -... A labor of love by inspired fans, this magazine celebrates the literature of an original American treasure, R. A. Lafferty. Praised by Neil Gaiman and...
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Feast of Laughter 3: An Appreciation of R.A. Lafferty
ISBN: 9780692586518 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once was a phenomenon, twice was amazing, three times-we may just be onto something.
This is the third issue of Feast of Laughter in celebration of R. A. Lafferty's 101st birthday on November 7. Table of Contents Introduction by Kevin Cheek Introduction to the Boomer Flats Gazette by Dan Knight World Abounding - New Essays Ray by Rick Norwood One Cannot Give Too Many Instances by John Ellison Eudaimonism in R.A. Lafferty's Aurelia by Gregorio Montejo Outside the Cathedral by Kevin Cheek Copyright, Copyleft, Copyfuture by Rich... Once was a phenomenon, twice was amazing, three times-we may just be onto something.
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