Translated Poe
ISBN: 9781611461732 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation. Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different national/literary traditions to demonstrate Poe's extensive influence on world literature and thought while revealing the importance of the vehicle that delivers Poe to the world--translation. Translated Poe is not preoccupied with judging the -quality- of any given Poe translation nor with assessing what a specific translation of Poe...
Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their c...
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284,37 zł |
Why Horror Seduces
ISBN: 9780190666507 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagination for almost as long as pictures have moved on screens. But why do they captivate us so? What is the drive to be frightened, and why is it so perennially popular? Why Horror Seduces addresses these questions through evolutionary social sciences. Explaining the functional seduction of horror entertainment, this book draws on cutting-edge findings in the evolutionary social sciences, showing how the horror genre is a product of...
From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imagi...
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537,48 zł |
Facing the Fiend: Satan as a Literary Character
ISBN: 9780718893545 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wide-ranging examination of the character of Satan through his literary manifestations, suggesting that this theologically problematic figure is best understood through his narrative role in myth and storytelling.
A wide-ranging examination of the character of Satan through his literary manifestations, suggesting that this theologically problematic figure is bes...
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119,29 zł |
Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror
ISBN: 9781501336713 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mastering Fear analyzes horror as play and examines what functions horror has and why it is adaptive and beneficial for audiences, including women. It takes a biocultural approach, and focusing on emotions, gender, and play, it argues that the audience plays with fiction horror. In horror we engage not only with the negative emotions of fear and disgust, but with a wide range of emotions, both positive and negative, and the aim for us is to master these emotions. The book lays out a new theory of horror and analyzes female protagonists in contemporary horror from child to teen,... Mastering Fear analyzes horror as play and examines what functions horror has and why it is adaptive and beneficial for audiences, including... |
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Poe and the Idea of Music: Failure, Transcendence, and Dark Romanticism
ISBN: 9781611462043 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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407,78 zł |
The Subversive Zombie: Social Protest and Gender in Undead Cinema and Television
ISBN: 9781476666730 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Historically, zombies have been portrayed in films and television series as mindless, shuffling monsters. In recent years, this has changed dramatically. Focusing on classic and current movies and TV shows, the author reveals how the once-subversive modern zombie, now more popular than ever, has been co-opted by the mainstream culture industry"--
"Historically, zombies have been portrayed in films and television series as mindless, shuffling monsters. In recent years, this has changed dramatica...
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245,90 zł |
Hieroglyphics: A Note upon Ecstasy in Literature
ISBN: 9781528704281 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,32 zł |
A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780271082356 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines case studies of popular culture as pessimistic rhetorical artifacts, and how non-traditional modes of argumentation can work rhetorically to overcome biases against pessimistic messaging.
Examines case studies of popular culture as pessimistic rhetorical artifacts, and how non-traditional modes of argumentation can work rhetorically to ...
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386,04 zł |
Narrating Death: The Limit of Literature
ISBN: 9781138360365 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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662,64 zł |
Primal Roots of Horror Cinema: Evolutionary Psychology and Narratives of Fear
ISBN: 9781476674278 / Angielski / Miękka / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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245,90 zł |
Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media
ISBN: 9781138227439 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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688,13 zł |
Gothic Reflections
ISBN: 9780801441561 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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591,28 zł |
A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780271082363 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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203,92 zł |
The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction
ISBN: 9780814214015 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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605,76 zł |
Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement
ISBN: 9780814214138 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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605,76 zł |
Necronomicon Revelations -or- Crossing to the Abyss: Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows & Simon's Necronomicon
ISBN: 9780578506821 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,24 zł |
Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction
ISBN: 9781789620771 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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177,01 zł |
Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800-2000
ISBN: 9781789620344 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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587,53 zł |
Revenge of Monsters from the Vault: Classic Horror Films Revisited (Once More)
ISBN: 9781927990278 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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66,21 zł |
Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 1764-1897
ISBN: 9781786834607 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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420,65 zł |