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  • A book of monsters

    Promethean horror in modern literature and culture

    de David Ashford ...
    This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist “Promethean” tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London’s churches in the psychogeographical fiction of ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Autarchies

    The Invention of Selfishness

    de David Ashford ...
    The philosophy of Ayn Rand has had a role equal or greater than that of Milton Friedman or F.A. Hayek in shaping the contemporary neo-liberal consensus. Its impact was powerful on architects of Reaganomics such as Alan Greenspan, former Director of the World Bank, and the new breed of American industrialists who developed revolutionary information technologies in Silicon Valley.But what do we ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Space Exploration: All That Matters

    de David Ashford ...
    Series series All That Matters
    Amid a century devastated by war, space exploration was perhaps mankind's greatest achievement of the twentieth century. Yet remarkably, in a world where most technology progresses constantly, space exploration appears to have gone backwards. Man has not returned to the moon since 1972; the space shuttle programme has finished and not been replaced; much-vaunted promises of space tourism have not ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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  • How Literature Works

    50 Key Concepts

    de John Sutherland ...
    How Literature Works is an indispensable book for any reader seeking a greater appreciation of their favorite novel, poem, or play. It offers a lively and straightforward guide to literary thinking. With a series of compact essays, the renowned literary critic John Sutherland--widely admired for his wit and clear reasoning--strips away the obscurity and pretension of literary study. His book ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • In Other Worlds

    SF and the Human Imagination

    de Margaret Atwood ...
    **A marvelous collection of wide-ranging essays from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, exploring her lifelong relationship to science fiction—as a reader and as a writerThe ebook edition of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating ebook-exclusive illustrations by the author**At a time when the borders between genres are increasingly porous, she maps ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Mystery of Things

    de Prof A.C. Grayling ...
    Following the huge success of THE MEANING OF THINGS and THE REASON OF THINGS, a third collection of bestselling essays from Britain's top philosopher.'Human genius has done much, and promises much, in the way of removing the mystery from many things in our world; at the same time it recognises and honours the mystery in things too.'In this collection A.C. Grayling extends the range of his previous ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Hauntology

    Ghosts of Futures Past

    de Merlin Coverley ...
    Ghosts and specters, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an earlier age, so haunted? The concept of Hauntology has evolved since first emerging in the 1990s, and has now entered the cultural mainstream as a shorthand for our new-found obsession with the recent past. But where does this term come from and what ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Psychogeography

    de Merlin Coverley ...
    In recent years the term "psychogeography" has been used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from ley lines and the occult, to urban walking and political radicalism. But where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? This book examines the origins of psychogeography in the Paris of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political application in the work of Guy ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Straw Dogs

    Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

    de John Gray ...
    A radical and thought-provoking philosophical challenge to the Western tradition's most cherished assumptions about human beings and their place in the world.In the British bestseller Straw Dogs, John Gray sets out to question our deepest-held beliefs about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, Gray argues that the Western tradition ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Fairy Tale

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Marina Warner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know

    de John Sutherland ...
    Series series 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
    In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and examples from both classic and popular works.From postmodernism to postcolonialism, William Shakespeare to Jane Austen , 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important literary concepts ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD