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The graphic novel is the most exciting literary format to emerge in the past thirty years. Among its more inspired uses has been the superlative adaptation of literary classics. Unlike the comic book abridgments aimed at young readers of an earlier...

Superheroes are enjoying a cultural resurgence, dominating the box office and breaking out of specialty comics stores onto the shelves of mainstream retailers. A leading figure behind the superhero Renaissance is Grant Morrison, long-time architect of...

Comparing various fantasy fiction stories, this book shows that it is not the tropes and cliches that make a story good or bad but how the author applies them. The book also explores the concept of text versus meta-text--that is, when the story's...

This is the first overview of cartoon art in this important cultural nexus of Asia. The eight essays provide historical and contemporary examinations of cartoons and comics in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and...

Examines wartime political cartoons—with particular emphasis on the works of James Montgomery Flagg, Dr. Seuss, Ollie Harrington, and Ann Telnaes—to examine how, when, and why graphic caricatures serve to illuminate the US national character...

De Auctorum Belli Africani Et Belli Hispaniensis Latinitate est liber auctore Albrechto Koehler, qui anno MDCCCLXXVII editus est. In hoc libro, auctor disserit de Latinitate auctoribus qui de bello Africano et bello Hispaniensi scripserunt. Koehler...

Das Buch ""Das Liederbuch Vom Cid: Nach Der Bis Jetzt Vollstandigsten, Keller'schen Ausgabe Verdeutscht (1842)"" von Regis, Gottlob ist eine �����bersetzung des ber�����hmten spanischen Epos ""Cantar de Mio Cid"" ins Deutsche. Es enth�����lt die...

Moving away from traditional studies of Gothic domesticity based on symbolism, Andrew Hock Soon Ng instead focuses on domestic space's material presence and the traces it leaves on the human subjects inhabiting it. Discussing contemporary novels by...

Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters examines cultural attitudes toward imposture and theatrical and literary representations of chameleonic identities in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. During this period, chameleonism evoked...

Best known for his popular crime fiction, Boston novelist George V. Higgins (1939-1999) should stand among the top ranks of the American literary canon. In his 26 novels and dozens of short stories, Higgins chronicled the lives of Boston's Irish with...

Beyond the His Dark Materials series lies a vast fictional realm populated by the many diverse character creations of Philip Pullman. During a more than 30-year career, Pullman has created worlds filled with quests, trials, tragedies and triumphs, and...

To say that graphic novels, comics, and other forms of sequential art have become a major part of popular culture and academia would be a vast understatement. Now an established component of library and archive collections across the globe, graphic...

Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton's The Executioner in 1969. This is the first overview of the serial vigilante genre, which featured such hard-boiled protagonists as Nick Carter,...

This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological...

Illuminates the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen, examining this through key historic moments in Western film and its contemporary incarnations.This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic...

Hayden Tucker is a pillar of the community. He has a beautiful wife, two adorable sons and a high paying VP position at a thriving internet company. He also has a deadly and twisted perversion. Unbeknownst to his family he is a psychotic serial killer...

Treinta y cinco autores reunidos para descifrar un fenómeno que superó hace rato los límites de un movimiento partidario o de una plataforma política para convertirse, claramente, en una clave cultural, en una mitología local e irrepetible. En estas...

This volume "binds" a collection of selected papers that emerged from the J.R.R. Tolkien-lecture-series initiated at the University of Augsburg in 2014. Each of the papers is representative of the editors' interest in the interdisciplinary...

"So much has already been written about Lewis, so many aspects of his life and work so thoroughly explored, that one might think that The Undiscovered Lewis would necessarily be a slim volume! Nothing could be further from the truth. These...

En el presente volumen se han tomado en consideración testimonios y manifestaciones escritas desde el Medioevo tardío hasta el siglo XX con el fin de contribuir al avance en el estudio de las relaciones entre Gran Bretaña e Irlanda y la Península Ibérica.

This volume offers an important examination of the ways in which artistic manipulations of time can lead to a different perception of time as non-synchronous and anti-chronological. The range of media and periods explored here testify to the enduring...

Death in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical and cultural tradition. Yet any stage death is also a non-ending: just one in a series of repeated (re)presentations, by an actor who...

Deep Ends 2021 is the eighth book in the ongoing series of full-size, full colour Ballardian anthologies from The Terminal Press. This edition features David Pringle's ongoing JG Ballard chronology, this time a 70,000 word examination of Ballard's early...

The Raymond Chandler Project is a collection of short stories, songs and poems inspired by a list of unused titles of Raymond Chandler, originally commissioned via a random Facebook post in the summer of 2020.

Hippocampus Press celebrates the first half-decade of its acclaimed annual magazine of weird fiction, criticism, and poetry with a blockbuster issue containing a dozen stories, a sheaf of cutting-edge critical essays, and ten poems long and short.Among...

<b>Table of Contents</b><br><br>Lovecraft and Egypt: A Closer Examination<br>Duncan Norris<br><br>Forgotten Influence: A. Merritt's "The Face in the Abyss" and H. P. Lovecraft's "The...

For the past thirty-five years, S. T. Joshi has been one of the leading authorities on H. P. Lovecraft. As Lovecraft's editor and biographer, Joshi has revolutionized our understanding of the dreamer from Providence. This enormous volume, which contains...

In Comics Art in Korea, comics scholar John A. Lent embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the vibrant world of Korean comics, cartoons, comic strips, graphic novels, webcomics, and animation. This meticulously researched work delves deep into the...

Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of genres, experimenting with a variety of techniques, and gaining recognition as a legitimate, rich form of art. Maaheen Ahmed examines this trend by taking...

Due to the huge success of her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in 2006 and its subsequent Tony Award-winning musical adaptation in 2009, Alison Bechdel (b. 1960) has recently become a household name. However, Bechdel, who has won numerous...

Ed Brubaker (b. 1966) has emerged as one of the most popular, significant figures in art comics since the 1990s. Most famous as the man who killed Captain America in 2007, Brubaker's work on company-owned properties such as Batman and Captain America...

From the moment Captain America punched Hitler in the jaw, comic books have always been political, and whether it is Marvel's chairman Ike Perlmutter making a campaign contribution to Donald Trump in 2016 or Marvel's character Howard the Duck running for...

""A Description of Satan's Court"" is a book written by Walter Butler Harris in 1884. The book is a detailed account of the author's imagined version of Satan's Court, which he describes as a place where the devil and his demons reside. The book is...

For a magical trip through time, read "Legends in Ink" by Leonie Becker. It's a fascinating collection of stories that will last for generations. Immerse yourself in a web of stories, where every word has been carefully chosen to have an impact that...

Eva Stojanovic's "Once Upon a Timeless Journey: Dream Stories for Your Heart" takes you on a magical journey through the cosmos. Enjoy a collection of magical stories that go beyond time and create a tapestry of dreams that will touch your heart and...

På en grushög längst inne i valvet satt den vansinniga och höll i sin famn ett halvmurket benrangel, kring vilket några gulgråa, ursprungligen vita tyglappar fladdrade för luftdraget... Och den galna satt och...

A journey in search of Middle-earthIn 1911, at the age of nineteen, J. R. R. Tolkien embarked on an adventurous journey through the Swiss Alps; with a heavy pack, he hiked over many high passes. More than fifty years later, he mentioned in a letter to...

Law and government are aspects of J.R.R. Tolkien's works that have not received much scholarly attention. However, they are present in many facets of his sub-creation. In describing the various societies that populate it, Tolkien addressed aspects of...

Kamloops Tales is a local anthology put together by Celticfrog Publishing and the Interior Author's Group. It has photograhy, poetry, memoir and fiction written by members of the IAG  

In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthurian literature. Although studies of the "Oxford...

A collection of fascinating stories of unpredictable people, the lives they lead, and their need to be rid of the baggage they carry. It's overviews, under-views, moments in time, with twists and turns, depicted in rhyme. THE BOOK OF STORY RHYMES is a...

ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟରେ କଥାଶିଳ୍ପୀ ସୁରେନ୍ଦ୍ର ମହାନ୍ତିଙ୍କର ସ୍ଥାନ ସ୍ବତନ୍ତ୍ର। ତାଙ୍କର ବିଷୟବସ୍ତୁ ନିର୍ବାଚନ, ଚରିତ୍ର ଚିତ୍ରଣ ଏବଂ ଶବ୍ଦ ଚୟନ ସମସାମୟିକ ସାହିତ୍ୟିକମାନଙ୍କ ଠାରୁ ଭିନ୍ନ। ଶ୍ରୀଜଗନ୍ନାଥଙ୍କୁ ନେଇ ସେ ଲେଖିଥିବା 'ନୀଳଶୈଳ', 'ନୀଳାଦ୍ରି ବିଜୟ', 'କୃଷ୍ଣାବେଣୀରେ ସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା', ଉତ୍କଳ ଗୌରବ...

This year's bountiful issue of The Lovecraft Annual features a trio of articles on the Eddy family. David Haden writes an authoritative article on Lovecraft's relations with the bookseller Arthur Eddy, who probably introduced Lovecraft to his nephew C...