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  • Spain is different?

    Historical memory and the ‘Two Spains’ in turn-of-the-millennium Spanish apocalyptic fictions

    de Dale Knickerbocker ...
    Series series Iberian and Latin American Studies
    The end of the second millennium witnessed an increase in science-fictional apocalyptic narratives globally. There is a noteworthy difference between such fictions from Latin America and the anglophone world and those from Spain, in which scientific explanations of events coexist with biblically-inspired plots, characters and imagery. This is the first book-length study of either science-fictional ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Out of This World

    Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium

    de Rachel S. Cordasco, Emad El-Din Aysha, Sonja Fritzsche, Edward Gauvin, Maria Haskins, Dale Knickerbocker, J. Pekka Makela, Julie Novakova, Keren Omry, Wojciech Orlinski, Sunyoung Park, Mingwei Song, Takayuki Tatsumi, Francesco Verso ...
    The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of speculative fiction in translation (SFT). Rachel Cordasco examines speculative fiction published in English translation since 1960, ranging from Soviet-era fiction to the Arabic-language dystopias that emerged following the Iraq War. Individual chapters on SFT from Korean, Czech, Finnish, and eleven other source languages feature an ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Lingua Cosmica

    Science Fiction from around the World

    de Daína Chaviano, Jacek Dukaj, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Andreas Eschbach, Angélica Gorodischer, Sakyo Komatsu, Cixin Liu, Laurent McAllister, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Johanna Sinisalo, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Alexis Brooks de Vita, Pawel Frelik, Yvonne Howell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Vibeke Rützou Petersen, Amy J Ransom, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Hanna Samola, Mingwei Song, Tatsumi Takayuki, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, Natacha Vas-Deyres ...
    Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem. Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established canon? Lingua Cosmica opens the door to some of the creators in the vanguard of international science fiction. Eleven experts offer innovative ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    You Must Read Before You Die

    de Peter Boxall ...
    Series series 1001
    Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Science Fiction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de David Seed ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that science fiction narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edición de Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Parabolas of Science Fiction

    Edición de Brian Attebery, Veronica Hollinger ...
    As a geometric term, parabola suggests a narrative trajectory or story arc. In science fiction, parabolas take us from the known to the unknown. More concrete than themes, more complex than motifs, parabolas are combinations of meaningful setting, character, and action that lend themselves to endless redefinition and jazzlike improvisation. The fourteen original essays in this collection explore ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Postmodernism For Beginners

    de Jim Powell ...
    Series series For Beginners
    If you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you.Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction to the most profound spiritual and philosophical crisis of our time – the failure of the Enlightenment.Jim ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Atomic Bomb Cinema

    The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film

    de Jerome F. Shapiro ...
    Unfathomably merciless and powerful, the atomic bomb has left its indelible mark on film. In Atomic Bomb Cinema, Jerome F. Shapiro unearths the unspoken legacy of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and its complex aftermath in American and Japanese cinema.According to Shapiro, a "Bomb film" is never simply an exercise in ideology or paranoia. He examines hundreds of films like Godzilla, Dr. ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Evaporating Genres

    Essays on Fantastic Literature

    de Gary K. Wolfe ...
    A series of provocative essays on how the fantastic genres evolve and growIn this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally "evaporate" into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers "unlearned" how to read the fantastic during the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Full Metal Apache

    Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America

    de Takayuki Tatsumi, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Larry McCaffery ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Takayuki Tatsumi is one of Japan’s leading cultural critics, renowned for his work on American literature and culture. With his encyclopedic knowledge and fan’s love of both Japanese and American art and literature, he is perhaps uniquely well situated to offer this study of the dynamic crosscurrents between the avant-gardes and pop cultures of Japan and the United States. In Full Metal Apache, ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Cinema and Landscape

    Film, Nation and Cultural Geography: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography

    Edición de Graeme Harper, Jonathan Rayner ...
    The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee without New York? Cinema and Landscape frames contemporary film landscapes across the world, in an exploration of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD