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Unlocking the Future: The Urban Imagination in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781032483382 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity of Chinese society to conceive of the future.
The author argues that ‘the future’ is a set of directional and normative ideas that forms the basis of the entire social mobilization mechanism in China, while the capacity to imagine the future is likely to be produced in response to the present challenges. By discussing the urban space, the reconstruction of time, the infrastructure, and concepts of the 'urban-rural' and civilization in contemporary Chinese science fiction, she... The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity of Chinese society to conceive of t...
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630,22 |
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William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark
ISBN: 9781350365698 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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412,07 |
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Reimagining the Human in Contemporary French Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781802078497 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study of French science fiction - even in France - remains an underexploited field. This is the first book-length study to take into account both French and Anglo-American intellectual trends, theories, and SF scholarship and apply them to a corpus of French works.
The study of French science fiction - even in France - remains an underexploited field. This is the first book-length study to take into account both ...
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484,79 |
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Odia Baigyanika Upanyasa
ISBN: 9781645603375 / Oriya / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,60 |
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Tolkien's Hidden Pictures: Anthroposophy and the Enchantment in Middle Earth
ISBN: 9781584208952 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating study of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, which builds upon the work of previous scholars and ventures deeper, drawing on insights from anthroposophy to illuminate the stories in new ways.
A fascinating study of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, which builds upon the work of previous scholars and ventures deeper, drawing on insights f...
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68,23 |
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Tolkien\'s Library: An Annotated Checklist: Second Edition Revised and Expanded
ISBN: 9781913387761 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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170,29 |
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Tolkien\'s Library: An Annotated Checklist: Second Edition Revised and Expanded
ISBN: 9781913387778 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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212,86 |
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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography
ISBN: 9781529176902 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - Neil Gaiman'Sometimes joyfully, sometimes painfully, intimate . . WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION'Always readable, i... |
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55,19 |
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Making Myths and Magic: A Field Guide to Writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels
ISBN: 9781778194313 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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97,87 |
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Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature
ISBN: 9781538166062 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fantasy is a genre in motion, gradually expanding its reach and historical sources to embrace a global identity Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature, Second Edition is a snapshot of the genre in this moment, identifying new themes and sources that are emerging to inspire, enhance and invigorate the published works of fantasy writers.
Fantasy is a genre in motion, gradually expanding its reach and historical sources to embrace a global identity Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Liter...
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746,57 |
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Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler's Science Fiction Novels
ISBN: 9781666903102 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the ways in which Butler's protagonists experience Rites of Passage and are on a quest for justice. The author posits that through liminality, they engage in psychological, physical, and social transformations that increase their empowerment.
This book explores the ways in which Butler's protagonists experience Rites of Passage and are on a quest for justice. The author posits that through ...
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315,12 |
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The Literature of Exclusion: Dada, Data, and the Threshold of Electronic Literature
ISBN: 9781793614650 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Literature of Exclusion considers what effects the shift from a culture of language to a culture of digital code has on lived experience. While data offers a closed system, Dadaist literature of exclusion, he suggests, promises a future of open alternatives for self-narration.
The Literature of Exclusion considers what effects the shift from a culture of language to a culture of digital code has on lived experience. While da...
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169,68 |
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Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard
ISBN: 9781032188140 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In dialogue with posthuman thought, this book argues that Ballard’s fiction affirms the expansive powers of the human body to create openings in the limited present. This book also positions the transgressive private mythologies of Ballard’s characters as strategies of survival and endurance in surrealist everyday catastrophes.
In dialogue with posthuman thought, this book argues that Ballard’s fiction affirms the expansive powers of the human body to create openings in the...
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702,94 |
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The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s Science Fiction: An Experience of the Impossible
ISBN: 9781032503509 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers rare insight into how utopian science fiction written by contemporary and historical European women has played an important role in exploring the racial and gender possibilities of the outer limits of the humanist imagination.
This book offers rare insight into how utopian science fiction written by contemporary and historical European women has played an important role in...
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702,94 |
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Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film: Rant Against the Regime
ISBN: 9780367654092 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kirk Combe theorizes a new type of contemporary political satire: the Rant. Grim, imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres, the Rant targets the Regime—the dangerous social and economic orthodoxies of neoliberalism and neoconservatism.
Kirk Combe theorizes a new type of contemporary political satire: the Rant. Grim, imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres, the Rant targets...
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203,56 |
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The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination
ISBN: 9780817361006 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts. This insightful, playful monograph from Golston does exactly what it advertises: modeling poetics based on how poetry (and some parallel artistic endeavors) has filtered through a century-plus of science fiction. This is not a book about science fiction in and of itself, but it is a book about the resonances of science-fiction tropes and ideas in poetic language. The germ of Golston’s project is a throwaway line in Robert Smithson’s Entropy and the New Monuments about how cinema...
How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts. This insightful, playful monograph from Golston...
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155,13 |
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Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress
ISBN: 9781032303857 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It, unpacks Arabic dystopian fiction from the lens of psychological distress. It studies novels by Algerian, Egyptian, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Mauritanian, Syrian, and Tunisian authors. Elmeligi predicts a speculative fiction turn in the Arabic novel, and provides a theoretical approach to understand its nuanced and innovative contribution
It, unpacks Arabic dystopian fiction from the lens of psychological distress. It studies novels by Algerian, Egyptian, Jordanian, Kuwaiti, Mauritanian...
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702,94 |
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Eu Juro que nos Encontraremos
ISBN: 9798215498217 / Portugalski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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38,27 |
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Fantasy Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology
ISBN: 9781350166929 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, this book explores the blue prints of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction. The first section will acquaint readers with the vast canon of existing fantasy fiction and outline the many sub-genres encompassed within it before examining the important relationship between fantasy and creative writing, the academy and publishing. A craft guide follows which equips students with the key concepts of storytelling as they are impacted by writing through a fantastical...
The first fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, this book explores the blue...
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130,84 |
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Fantasy Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology
ISBN: 9781350166936 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, this book explores the blue prints of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction. The first section will acquaint readers with the vast canon of existing fantasy fiction and outline the many sub-genres encompassed within it before examining the important relationship between fantasy and creative writing, the academy and publishing. A craft guide follows which equips students with the key concepts of storytelling as they are impacted by writing through a fantastical...
The first fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, this book explores the blue...
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387,83 |
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