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“james e doan”

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  • Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump

    Images from Literature and Visual Arts

    by Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan, Dan M. R. Abitz, Christine Jackson, Jeffrey Barber, Emily A. O’Dell, Daniel Adleman, Kibiriti Majuto, Sue Matheson0, Kate Waites1, Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández2, Claudia Schaefer3, Elisabetta Di Minico4, Matthew Paproth5, Tom Shapira6, Ryan Farrar7, David L. McNaron8, Todd K. Platts9 ...
    Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place” to the psychotic world of Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, from science fiction and recent horror films, ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Apocalyptic Chic

    Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts

    by Alex M. Milmine, Katherine Allocco, Tanner Morrison, Maren Conrad, Casey Ratto, Daniel Schäbler, Sarah Heaton, Annika Rosanowski, Victoria Williams, Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández, Claudia Schaefer, Mark Poindexter, Scott Culpepper, Christine A. Jackson, Stephen J. Webley, Alyssa Ryan ...
    This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity’s fear of extinction and its quest for survival -- in revenant, supernatural, or living human ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Supernatural Revamped

    From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic

    by Simon Bacon, Jessica Birch, Scott Culpepper, Paul E. H. Davis, Sarah Heaton, Darren Hibbs, C. Austin Hill, Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, Tommy Kuusela, Kayleigh Murphy, Andrea Shaw Nevins, Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández, Claudia Schaefer, Masaya Shimokusu, Ashley Szanter, Mark David Ryan, Matthias Teichert, Cynthia Vinney, Caryn Wiley-Rapoport, Todd K. Platts ...
    This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Universal Vampire

    Origins and Evolution of a Legend

    Edited by Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan ...
    Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire was a feared creature of Eastern European folklore ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Images of the Modern Vampire

    The Hip and the Atavistic

    Edited by Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan ...
    In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European revenant and ultimately to Dracula, who first appears as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, published in 1897. The essays in that collection ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film

    Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933

    by Erik Butler ...
    For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social transformation. Because the vampire grows strong whenever and wherever traditions weaken, its ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    This volume collects the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe.THE TALESMetzengerstein, The Duc de L’Omelette, A Tale of Jerusalem, Loss of Breath, Bon-Bon, Ms. Found in a Bottle, The Assignation, Berenice, Morella, Lionizing, The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal, King Pest, Shadow—A Parable, etc.THE POEMSPoetry, O, Tempora! O, Mores!, Tamerlane, Song, Dreams, Spirits of the Dead, Evening ... Read more

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  • Grimms' Fairy Tales

    Rapunzel, Tom Thumb, Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin and Many More Classic Stories

    by The Brothers Grimm ...
    Series Book 22 - Children's Literature Collection
    From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magical beasts and cunning children. From classics such as 'The Frog-Prince' and 'Hansel and Grettel' to the delights of 'Ashputtel' or 'Old Sultan', all hold a timeless magic which has enthralled children ... Read more

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  • The Red Fairy Book

    by eBooksLib ...
    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. IN a second gleaning of the fields of Fairy Land we cannot expect to find a second Perrault. But there are good stories enough left, and it is hoped that some in the Red Fairy Book may have the attraction of being less familiar than many of the old friends. The tales have been translated, or, in the case of those from Madame d'Aulnoy's long stories, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Dark Hollow

    by Anna Katharine Green ...
    Anna Katharine Green was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel." ... Read more

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  • Bigfoot Observer's Field Manual

    by Robert W. Morgan ...
    Yah-ta-hey. Welcome! May I assume that you are interested in Forest Giants and wish to arrange your very own peaceful encounter? I won't tell you that it is easy. Nevertheless, it is possible and even probable — but only if you follow to the letter the systematic sugges tions contained within this manual.Take care, my friend. ... Read more

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  • The Violet Fairy Book

    by Andrew Lang ...
    "The Violet Fairy Book" is part of Andrew Lang's "Colored Fairy Books" series, which features a collection of fairy tales from various cultures and traditions. It was published in 1901 and follows the same format as the other books in the series.Some of the fairy tales included in "The Violet Fairy Book" are:"The Story of the Seven Simons" - A humorous tale about seven brothers with extraordinary ... Read more

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