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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

    $105.29 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

    $47.99 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

  • 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

    $47.99 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 Complete Collection - 120+ Tales, Poems

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    "I Became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." Over 120 Edgar Allan Poe complete tales and poems in one volume! Everything the master of macabre ever published. *Original illustrations restored for the fan of Poe plus Research tools for the student* Your special Annotated & ILLUSTRATED includes: + Research Bibliography since 1990 – over 750+ references already in Harvard format for ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Grimms' Fairy Tales

    by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm ...
    A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o’clock he ... Read more

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  • The Red Fairy Book

    by Andrew Lang ...
    First published in 1890, “The Red Fairy Book” is the second in a series of collections of fairy tales from around the world edited by Andrew Lang, the Scottish novelist, poet and literary critic, with translations and retellings by his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne, and others. Lang and Alleyne would go on to publish popular collections of fairy tales and poetry for over twenty years. Lang and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Dark Hollow

    by Anna Katharine Green ...
    Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green Enter a world of mystery, secrecy, and suspense with Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green, a classic tale from one of the pioneering authors of detective fiction. In a place surrounded by uncertainty and shadow, troubling events begin to raise questions that cannot easily be answered. What appears to be an isolated mystery soon reveals a deeper web of hidden ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Violet Fairy Book

    by Andrew Lang ...
    It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of fairyland. Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, giants and dwarfs, monsters and magicians, fairies and ogres--these are the companions who thrill young boys and girls of all lands and all times, as Andrew Lang's phenomenally successful collections of stories have proved. From the day that they were ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 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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