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  • Global Romanticism

    Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760–1820

    by Ian Duncan, Samuel Baker, Miranda Burgess, Anthony Jarrells, Debbie Lee, Yoon Sun Lee, Louis Kirk McAuley, Robert Mitchell, Steve Newman, Stuart Peterfreund, Matthew Wickman, Michael Wiley, Katie Trumpener ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. GlobalRomanticism: Origins, Orientations, andEngagements, 1760–1820 charts a new intellectual course by exploring the literature and culture of the Romantic era through the lens of long ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Scotland as Science Fiction

    by Caroline McCracken-Flesher, John Corbett, Ian Duncan, John Garrison, Lisa Harrison, J Derrick McClure, Gavin Miller, Alison Phipps, Alan Riach, Carla Sassi, Cairns Craig, Matthew Wickman ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • Wheel of Time Reread: Books 1-4

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    Series Book 1 - Wheel of Time Reread
    The Wheel of Time Reread on Tor.com is an extensive analysis of Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series, covering the material chapter by chapter. Join Leigh Butler as she summarizes the chapters and comments on the ongoing mysteries of the series, gender issues, politics, history, and the many Crowning Moments of Awesome.Volume 1 of the collected Tor.com Wheel of Time Reread covers books 1 through 4 ... Read more

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  • The Truth About Awiti

    by CP Patrick ...
    There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans-Atlantic slave trade.Awiti’s destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village. She made a life-altering decision with ... Read more

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  • J.R.R. Tolkien

    Author of the Century

    by Tom Shippey ...
    The definitive Tolkien companion—an indispensable guide to The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and more, from the author of The Road to Middle-earth.This "highly erudite celebration and exploration of Tolkien's works [is] enormous fun," declared the Houston Chronicle, and Tom Shippey, a prominent medievalist and scholar of fantasy, "deepens your understanding" without "making you forget your ... Read more

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  • Wheel of Time Reread: Books 10-12

    by Leigh Butler ...
    Series Book 4 - Wheel of Time Reread
    The Wheel of Time Reread on Tor.com is an extensive analysis of Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series, covering the material chapter by chapter. Join Leigh Butler as she summarizes the chapters and comments on the ongoing mysteries of the series, gender issues, politics, history, and the many Crowning Moments of Awesome.Volume 4 of the collected Tor.com Wheel of Time Reread covers the prequel New ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Fellowship

    The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

    by Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski ...
    C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met every week in Lewis's Oxford rooms and in nearby pubs. They discussed literature, religion, and ideas; read aloud from works in progress; took philosophical rambles in woods ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Discworld and the Disciplines

    Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works

    Edited by Anne Hiebert Alton, William C. Spruiell, Donald E. Palumbo ...
    Series Book 45 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    This collection of new essays applies a wide range of critical frameworks to the analysis of prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. Essays focus on topics such as Pratchett's treatment of noise and silence and their political implications; art as an anodyne for racial conflict; humor and cognitive debugging; visual semiotics; linguistic stylistics and readers' perspectives of ... Read more

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  • The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower

    by Kate Forsyth ...
    Exploring the Rapunzel fairy tale throughout history. Includes research-based exegesis, original translations, poems and articles related to the work.About the AuthorKATE FORSYTH is the bestselling and award-winning author of more than twenty books, ranging from picture books to poetry to novels for both children and adults, including "The Heart of Stars", "The Forbidden Land", "The Pool of Two ... Read more

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  • The Real Middle Earth

    Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Middle Ages, J.R.R. Tolkien, and "The Lord of the Rings"

    by Brian Bates ...
    J.R.R. Tolkien claimed that he based the land of Middle Earth on a real place. The Real Middle Earth brings alive, for the first time, the very real civilization in which those who lived had a vision of life animated by beings beyond the material world.Magic was real to these people and they believed their universe was held together by an interlaced web of golden threads visible only to wizards. ... Read more

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  • Harry Potter and the Classical World

    Greek and Roman Allusions in J.K. Rowling's Modern Epic

    by Richard A. Spencer ...
    J.K. Rowling has drawn deeply from classical sources to inform and color her Harry Potter novels, with allusions ranging from the obvious to the obscure. "Fluffy," the vicious three-headed dog in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, is clearly a repackaging of Cerberus, the hellhound of Greek and Roman mythology. But the significance of Rowling's quotation from Aeschylus at the front of Harry ... Read more

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  • The Return Of The Ring Volume I

    Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012

    Edited by Lynn Forest-Hill ...
    Few twentieth-century authors can compete with J.R.R. Tolkien. More than three-quarters of a century after the publication of The Hobbit in 1937, his works continue to captivate millions of readers across the world. As a collection of papers delivered in 2012 at the Tolkien Society’s international conference of the same name, The Return of the Ring is representative of the wide and varied ... Read more

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