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Decoding Gender in Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780415939492 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text looks at the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored and revised conventional notions of gender. Although the study draws on feminist insights, it is not exclusively devoted to women writers or the treatment of women characters. Instead it examines both men's and women's writing and the question of sexual difference. Beginning with science fiction's origins (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein) and following to the 21st century, it suggests new perspectives on the field's best-known writers.
This text looks at the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored and revised conventional notions of gender. Although the study draws o...
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693,51 zł |
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Decoding Gender in Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780415939508 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text looks at the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored and revised conventional notions of gender. Although the study draws on feminist insights, it is not exclusively devoted to women writers or the treatment of women characters. Instead it examines both men's and women's writing and the question of sexual difference. Beginning with science fiction's origins (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein) and following to the 21st century, it suggests new perspectives on the field's best-known writers.
This text looks at the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored and revised conventional notions of gender. Although the study draws o...
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190,02 zł |
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Dark Horizons : Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination
ISBN: 9780415966139 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents essays on the dystopian turn of late 20th-century science fiction. Leading scholars discuss major dystopian traditions including cyberpunk and feminist utopian/dystopian narratives as seen in works such as Octavia Butler's novel Xenogenesis and the film Fight Club. These essays draw out the ways in which contemporary science fiction literature and film has served as a prophetic vehicle for writers with ethical and political concerns.
This text presents essays on the dystopian turn of late 20th-century science fiction. Leading scholars discuss major dystopian traditions including cy...
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693,51 zł |
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Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination
ISBN: 9780415966146 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents essays on the dystopian turn of late 20th-century science fiction. Leading scholars discuss major dystopian traditions including cyberpunk and feminist utopian/dystopian narratives as seen in works such as Octavia Butler's novel Xenogenesis and the film Fight Club. These essays draw out the ways in which contemporary science fiction literature and film has served as a prophetic vehicle for writers with ethical and political concerns.
This text presents essays on the dystopian turn of late 20th-century science fiction. Leading scholars discuss major dystopian traditions including cy...
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195,16 zł |
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Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults
ISBN: 9780415972185 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book critically examines Le Guin's fiction for all ages, and it will be of great interest to her many admirers and to all students and scholars of children's literature.
This book critically examines Le Guin's fiction for all ages, and it will be of great interest to her many admirers and to all students and scholars o...
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796,26 zł |
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The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780415979016 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs primarily supported essentialist constructions of racial identity, but also included a few elements of racial egalitarianism. Writing in the 1930s, George S. Schuyler revised Burroughs' normative SF triangle of white author, white audience, and white protagonist and promoted an individualistic, highly variable concept of race instead. While both Burroughs and Schuyler wrote SF...
While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity c...
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472,56 zł |
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On SF
ISBN: 9780472068968 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for Thomas Disch: "One of the most remarkably talented writers around."
---Washington Post Book World " Disch] is without doubt one of the really bright lights on the American SF scene." ---Fantasy and Science Fiction This collection by the much-loved and lauded science-fiction writer Thomas Disch spans twenty-five years of his career, during which he has supplemented his creative output with reviews and critical essays in publications as diverse as the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and Twilight... Praise for Thomas Disch: "One of the most remarkably talented writers around."
---Washington Post Book World " Disch] is without dou... |
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134,91 zł |
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On SF
ISBN: 9780472098965 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for Thomas Disch: "One of the most remarkably talented writers around."
---Washington Post Book World " Disch] is without doubt one of the really bright lights on the American SF scene." ---Fantasy and Science Fiction This collection by the much-loved and lauded science-fiction writer Thomas Disch spans twenty-five years of his career, during which he has supplemented his creative output with reviews and critical essays in publications as diverse as the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, and Twilight... Praise for Thomas Disch: "One of the most remarkably talented writers around."
---Washington Post Book World " Disch] is without dou... |
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416,38 zł |
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Cyberpunk & Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson
ISBN: 9780485006070 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cyberpunk is the fiction of a culture saturated by electronic technology. Its vocabulary is the language of cybernetics, biotechnology, corporational greed and urban subcultures. Massively successful in both book and film form, cyberpunk has redefined not only contemporary science fiction but also, through its capacity to anticipate technology and its cultural impact, analytical work in the social sciences and humanities.
Cyberpunk and Cyberculture explores the work of a wide range of writers -- Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shirley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson -- setting their work... Cyberpunk is the fiction of a culture saturated by electronic technology. Its vocabulary is the language of cybernetics, biotechnology, corporational ...
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410,97 zł |
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The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780521016575 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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195,37 zł |
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Bilbo's Birthday and Frodo's Adventure of Faith
ISBN: 9780595219353 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,58 zł |
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Solar Labyrinth: Exploring Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN
ISBN: 9780595317295 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN has been hailed by both critics and readers as quite possibly the best science fiction novel ever written. And yet at the same time, like another masterpiece of fiction, James Joyce's Ulysses, it's been deemed endlessly complex and filled with impenetrable mysteries. Now, however, in the first book-length investigation of Wolfe's literary puzzlebox, Robert Borski takes you inside the twisting corridors of the tetralogy and along the way reveals his solutions to many of the novel's conundrums and riddles, such as who really is Severian's lost twin sister...
Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN has been hailed by both critics and readers as quite possibly the best science fiction novel ever written. And yet at...
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73,69 zł |
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Solar Labyrinth: Exploring Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun
ISBN: 9780595663996 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN has been hailed by both critics and readers as quite possibly the best science fiction novel ever written. And yet at the same time, like another masterpiece of fiction, James Joyce's Ulysses, it's been deemed endlessly complex and filled with impenetrable mysteries. Now, however, in the first book-length investigation of Wolfe's literary puzzlebox, Robert Borski takes you inside the twisting corridors of the tetralogy and along the way reveals his solutions to many of the novel's conundrums and riddles, such as who really is Severian's lost twin sister...
Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN has been hailed by both critics and readers as quite possibly the best science fiction novel ever written. And yet at...
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114,74 zł |
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The War of the Ring: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three
ISBN: 9780618083596 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The War of the Ring Christopher Tolkien takes up the story of the writing of The Lord of the Rings with the Battle of Helm's Deep and the drowning of Isengard by the Ents. This is followed by an account of how Frodo, Sam and Gollum were finally brought to the Pass of Kirith Ungol, at which point J.R.R. Tolkien wrote at the time: 'I have got the hero into such a fix that not even an author will be able to extricate him without labour and difficulty'. Then comes the war in Gondor, and the book ends with the parley between Gandalf and the ambassador of the Dark Lord before the Black Gate of...
In The War of the Ring Christopher Tolkien takes up the story of the writing of The Lord of the Rings with the Battle of Helm's Deep and the drowning ...
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69,75 zł |
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The Atlas of Middle-Earth
ISBN: 9780618126996 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Karen Wynn Fonstad's THE ATLAS OF MIDDLE-EARTH is an essential volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. Here is the definitive guide to the geography of Middle-earth, from its founding in the Elder Days through the Third Age, including the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Authentic and updated -- nearly one third of the maps are new, and the text is fully revised -- the atlas illuminates the enchanted world created in THE SILMARILLION, THE HOBBIT, and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
Hundreds of two-color maps and diagrams survey the journeys of the principal characters... Karen Wynn Fonstad's THE ATLAS OF MIDDLE-EARTH is an essential volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. Here is the definitive guide to the geograph...
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102,64 zł |
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The Road to Middle-Earth
ISBN: 9780618257607 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shippey's classic work, now revised in paperback, explores J.R.R. Tolkien's creativity and the sources of his inspiration. Shippey shows in detail how Tolkien's professional background led him to write "The Hobbit" and how he created a timeless charm for millions of readers.
Shippey's classic work, now revised in paperback, explores J.R.R. Tolkien's creativity and the sources of his inspiration. Shippey shows in detail how...
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102,60 zł |
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Understanding the Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism
ISBN: 9780618422531 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Understanding The Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism is the definitive collection of essays on Tolkien's masterpiece. The essays span fifty years of critical reaction, from the first publication of The Fellowship of the Ring through the release of Peter Jackson's film trilogy, which inspired a new generation of readers to discover the classic work and prior generations to rediscover its power and beauty.
Fans and scholars alike will appreciate these important, insightful, and timely pieces. Fourteen of the fifteen have been previously published but are gathered here for the... Understanding The Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism is the definitive collection of essays on Tolkien's masterpiece. The essays span fi...
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82,07 zł |
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Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity
ISBN: 9780618478859 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A timely critical analysis of J. R. R. Tolkien's masterful trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, addresses the social and political structure of Middle-earth, its nature and ecology, and the spirituality and ethics of Tolkien's world.
A timely critical analysis of J. R. R. Tolkien's masterful trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, addresses the social and political structure of Middle-eart...
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73,86 zł |
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The Gospel According to Science Fiction: From the Twilight Zone to the Final Frontier
ISBN: 9780664229016 / Angielski / Miękka / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this thorough and engaging book, Gabriel McKee explores the inherent theological nature of science fiction, using illustrations from television shows, literature, and films. Science fiction, he believes, helps us understand not only who we are but who we will become. McKee organizes his chapters around theological themes, using illustrations from authors such as Isaac Asimov and H. G. Wells, television shows such as Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, and films such as The Matrix and Star Wars. With its extensive bibliography and index, this is a book that all... In this thorough and engaging book, Gabriel McKee explores the inherent theological nature of science fiction, using illustrations from television ... |
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114,95 zł |
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The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
ISBN: 9780684859781 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From one of science fiction's most acclaimed novelists comes this engrossing journey through the books, movies, and television programs that have shaped our perspective of both the present and the future. In an uncompromising, often irreverent survey of the genre from Edgar Allan Poe to Philip K. Dick to Star Trek, Thomas M. Disch analyzes science fiction's impact on technological innovation, fashion, lifestyle, military strategy, the media, and much more.
An illuminating look at the art of science fiction (with a practitioner's insight into craft), as well as a work of pointed... From one of science fiction's most acclaimed novelists comes this engrossing journey through the books, movies, and television programs that have shap...
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73,86 zł |