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  • Readymade Bodhisattva

    The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction

    by Sunyoung Park, Park Sang Joon ...
    Spanning more than a half-century of South Korean sci-fi, this massive anthology documents a unique convergence of culture and genreReadymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction presents the first book-length English-language translation of science and speculative fiction from South Korea, bringing together 13 classic and contemporary stories from the 1960s through the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Out of This World

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Revisiting Minjung

    New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea

    by Sunyoung Park ...
    Series series Perspectives On Contemporary Korea
    An epoch-marking alliance of laborers, students, dissident intellectuals, and ordinary citizens was at the heart of South Korea’s transformation from a dictatorship into a vibrant democracy during the 1980s. Collectively known as the minjung (“the people”), these agents of Korean democratization historically carved out an expanded role for civil society in the country’s politics. In Revisiting ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    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 ... Read more

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  • Around the World in 80 Books

    by David Damrosch ...
    A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them*Featured in the *Chicago Tribune'*s Great 2021 Fall Book Preview * One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books About Travel of 2021*Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s ... Read more

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  • Science Fiction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by 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 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edited by 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, ... Read more

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  • The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami

    by Matthew Carl Strecher ...
    In an “other world” composed of language—it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest—a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami’s characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts—people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking ... Read more

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  • The Haruki Murakami Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Haruki Murakami

    by Clayton Britt ...
    This book is your ultimate Haruki Murakami resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Haruki Murakami's whole picture right away. Get countless Haruki Murakami facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Haruki Murakami ... Read more

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  • ArtSpeak

    A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present

    by Robert Atkins ...
    The leading lexicon of contemporary art returns in an expanded, full-color third edition.An indispensable guide for art-world neophytes and seasoned professionals alike, the best-selling ArtSpeak returns in a revised and expanded third edition, illustrated in full color. Nearly 150 alphabetical entries—30 of them new to this edition—explain the who, what, where, and when of postwar and ... Read more

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  • Dangerous Visions and New Worlds

    Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985

    Edited by Andrew Nette, Iain McIntyre ...
    Much has been written about the 'long Sixties,' the era of the late 1950s through the early 1970s. It was a period of major social change, most graphically illustrated by the emergence of liberatory and resistance movements focused on inequalities of class, race, gender, sexuality, and beyond, whose challenge represented a major shock to the political and social status quo. With its focus on ... Read more

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