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  • Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump

    Images from Literature and Visual Arts

    Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place” to the psychotic world of Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, from science fiction and recent horror films, ... Leer más

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  • Apocalyptic Chic

    Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts

    This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity’s fear of extinction and its quest for survival -- in revenant, supernatural, or living human ... Leer más

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  • The Supernatural Revamped

    From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic

    This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the ... Leer más

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  • Images of the Modern Vampire

    The Hip and the Atavistic

    Edición de Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan ...
    In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European revenant and ultimately to Dracula, who first appears as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, published in 1897. The essays in that collection ... Leer más

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  • The Universal Vampire

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  • Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film

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    For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social transformation. Because the vampire grows strong whenever and wherever traditions weaken, its ... Leer más

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  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales (Centaur Classics)

    This book contains the complete Edgar Allan Poe’s tales in the chronological order of their original publication.Here you can also find the two unfinished tales "The Journal of Julius Rodman" and "The Light-House". ... Leer más

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  • Grimms' Fairy Tales

    Time passed on; and as the eldest son did not come back, and no tidings were heard of him, the second son set out, and the same thing happened to him. He met the fox, who gave him the good advice: but when he came to the two inns, his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was, and called to him to come in; and he could not withstand the temptation, but went in, and forgot ... Leer más

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    Delve into the depths of psychological suspense in this gripping mystery from Anna Katharine Green, author of The Leavenworth Case. An innkeeper is detained, tried and ultimately executed for a horrifying murder. Many years later, a mysterious woman pays a visit to the judge who presided over the case, identifying herself as the wife of the executed prisoner -- and insisting that he was wrongfully ... Leer más

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  • The Violet Fairy Book

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  • Bigfoot Observer's Field Manual

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