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  • Entangled Paths

    Multispecies Fairy Tales in Art and Illustration

    by Mayako Murai ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    An innovative look at multispecies coexistence through fairy tales and picturebook illustration.Animals in fairy tales are often regarded as symbolic representations or anthropomorphic characters rather than nonhuman beings who experience the world differently from humans. Yet as we globally reimagine multispecies coexistence, the study of the fairy tale necessarily calls our attention to more ... Read more

    $46.32 CAD

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  • From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl

    Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West

    by Mayako Murai ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    Brings contemporary Japanese literary and artistic fairy-tale adaptations into conversation with Euro-American feminist fairy-tale re-creation and scholarship.As in the United States, fairy-tale characters, motifs, and patterns (many from the Western canon) have pervaded recent Japanese culture. Like their Western counterparts, these contemporary adaptations tend to have a more female-oriented ... Read more

    $34.41 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale

    Contemporary Adaptations Across Cultures

    Edited by Mayako Murai, Luciana Cardi ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    New approaches to decenter Eurocentric perspectives in fairy tales and lift up storytelling cultures across the globe.Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures seeks to "re-orient" the fairy tale across different cultures, media, and disciplines and proposes new approaches to the ever-expanding fairy-tale web in a global context with a special emphasis on non-Euro ... Read more

    $48.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Fantasy

    How It Works

    by Brian Attebery ...
    An exciting and accessible study of the genre of fantasy. One of the dominant modes of storytelling in the twenty-first century, fantasy can mirror contemporary experiences and convey our anxieties and longings better than any representation of the merely real. It is the lie that speaks truth. This book addresses two central questions about fantastic storytelling: first, how can it be meaningful ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Ecologies of the Moving Image

    Cinema, Affect, Nature

    by Adrian J. Ivakhiv ...
    Series series Environmental Humanities
    Moving images take us on mental and emotional journeys, over the course of which we and our worlds undergo change. This is the premise of Ecologies of the Moving Image, which accounts for the ways cinematic moving images move viewers in ways that reshape our understanding of ourselves, of life, and of the Earth and universe.This book presents an ecophilosophy of the cinema: an account of the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene

    Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media

    Edited by Dr Marek Oziewicz, Professor Brian Attebery, Dr Tereza Dedinová ...
    The first study to look at the intersection of the discourse of the Anthropocene within the two highly influential storytelling modes of fantasy and myth, this book shows the need for stories that articulate visions of a biocentric, ecological civilization. Fantasy and myth have long been humanity's most advanced technologies for collective dreaming. Today they are helping us adopt a biocentric ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Genre Bending

    The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction

    by Jeremy Rosen ...
    Series series Post*45
    Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular fiction genres. In this comprehensive account, Jeremy Rosen describes literary fiction's embrace of genre fiction's conceits as "genre bending" and argues that while literary writers adopt genres ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • A to Z of Creative Writing Methods

    Edited by Dr Deborah Wardle, Julienne van Loon, Dr Stayci Taylor, Dr Francesca Rendle-Short, Dr Peta Murray, Professor David Carlin ...
    Series series Research in Creative Writing
    The A to Z of Creative Writing Methods is an alphabetical collection of essays to prompt consideration of method within creative writing research and practice.Almost sixty contributors from a range of writing traditions and across multiple forms and genre are represented in this volume: from poets, essayists, novelists and performance writers, to graphic novelists, illustrators, and those engaged ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice

    by J.F. Martel ...
    A compelling call to rediscover the transformative power of art in an age of distraction, coercion, and spectacle – featuring an introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Donna TarttIn Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, J. F. Martel offers a compelling and incisive meditation on the nature of art in a world dominated by invasive media, rampant consumer culture, and artificial ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Ensouling Language

    On the Art of Nonfiction and the Writer's Life

    by Stephen Harrod Buhner ...
    The first comprehensive work on nonfiction as an art form• Shows how nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, can take on the same power and luminosity as great fiction• Develops processes to reliably induce the dreaming state from which all writing comes• Teaches the skill of analogical thinking that is the core perceptual tool for writers• Explores the subtle techniques of powerful writing, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Environments in Science Fiction

    Essays on Alternative Spaces

    Edited by Susan M. Bernardo, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III ...
    Series Book 44 - Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
    The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the relationships among humans, other animals and their shared environments? Spaces, as well as a sense of place or belonging, play major roles in many science fiction works. This book focuses especially on depictions of the future that include, but move beyond, dystopias ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • A Comics Studies Reader

    Edited by Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD