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  • The Morals of Monster Stories

    Essays on Children's Picture Book Messages

    Edición de Leslie Ormandy ...
    The simplicity of children's picture books--stories told with illustrations and a few well chosen words or none at all--makes them powerful tools for teaching morals and personal integrity. Children follow the story and see the characters' behaviors on the page and interpret them in the context of their own lives. But unlike many picture books, most children's lives don't feature monsters.This ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Soul's Code

    In Search of Character and Calling

    de James Hillman ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A transformative guide to reconnecting with and harnessing your authentic self so you can lead a more fulfilled, complete life, from the world-renowned former director of the Jung Institute“A brilliant and absorbing work . . . [James] Hillman dares us to believe we are each meant to be here, that we are needed by the world around us.”—Publishers WeeklyPlato called it ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • 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

  • Death by Landscape

    de Elvia Wilk ...
    From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of “fan nonfiction” about living and writing in the age of extinctionIn this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narratives will help us rethink our human perspective toward Earth. The book begins as an exploration of the role of fiction today and becomes a deep interrogation of the writing process and the self.Wilk ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Rhetorics of Fantasy

    de Farah Mendlesohn ...
    This sweeping study of fantasy literature offers "new and often surprising readings of works both familiar and obscure. A fine critical work" ( Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts).Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Drawing on nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Teaching with Harry Potter

    Essays on Classroom Wizardry from Elementary School to College

    Edición de Valerie Estelle Frankel ...
    The Harry Potter phenomenon created a surge in reading with a lasting effect on all areas of culture, especially education. Today, teachers across the world are harnessing the power of the series to teach history, gender studies, chemistry, religion, philosophy, sociology, architecture, Latin, medieval studies, astronomy, SAT skills, and much more.These essays discuss the diverse educational ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Reading Chuck Palahniuk

    American Monsters and Literary Mayhem

    Edición de Cynthia Kuhn, Lance Rubin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    Reading Chuck Palahniuk examines how the author pushes through a variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to question American identity in powerful and important ways. Palahniuk's innovative stylistic accomplishments and notoriously disturbing subject matters invite close analysis, and the new essays in this collection offer fascinating insights about Palahniuk's texts, contexts, contributions, ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Horror

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Darryl Jones ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • 21st-Century Gothic

    Great Gothic Novels Since 2000

    Edición de professor Danel Olson ...
    Selected by a poll of more than 180 Gothic specialists (creative writers, professors, critics, and Gothic Studies program developers at universities), the fifty-three original works discussed in 21st-Century Gothic represent the most impressive Gothic novels written around the world between 2000-2010. The essays in this volume discuss the merits of these novels, highlighting the influences and key ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Hooked

    Art and Attachment

    de Rita Felski ...
    "Examines the way we connect to novels, films, paintings and music, and argues that our enthusiasms should be an integral part of conversations about art." —Helen Thaventhiran, London Review of BooksHow does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Enchanted Hunters

    The Power of Stories in Childhood

    de Maria Tatar ...
    Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read.Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria Tatar challenges many of our assumptions about childhood reading. Much as our culture pays lip service to the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Discworld and the Disciplines

    Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works

    Edición de Anne Hiebert Alton, William C. Spruiell, Donald E. Palumbo ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD