4,627円 How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning the years from 900 to 1500 and traversing geographical borders, from England to France and India to China, this book uniquely examines the tales told, trans...

14,159円 How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume explores the period when the European fairy tales conquered the world and shaped the global imagination in its own image. Examining how collectors, child...

14,159円 How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Drawing together contributions from an international range of scholars in history, literature, and cultural studies, this volume uniquely examines creative applicati...

14,159円 How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Drawing on the contributions of scholars working on Italian, French, English, Ottoman Turkish, and Japanese tale traditions, this book underscores the striking mobil...

4,627円 How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume traces the evolution of the genre over the period known as the long eighteenth century. It explores key developments including: the French fairy tale vog...

450円 Estelle Gibbs, out of a job and recently cheated on by her fiance two weeks before their wedding day, finds herself on a drinking binge that even her own best friend couldn't handle. Left alone in a bar one night, an attractive guy she has never met walks up to her and mistakes her for an old hig...

1,921円 Now expanded: The definitive visual guide to writing science fiction and fantasyーwith exercises, diagrams, essays by superstar authors, and more. From the New York Times-bestselling, Nebula Award-winning author, Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by...

1,760円 The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of one of the most important novels of the twentieth centuryーand now the twenty-first. Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians h...

1,760円 "A fascinating ecocritical evaluation" of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and other works of the master fantasist ( Northeastern Naturalist). The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion are rarely considered to be works of environmental literature or mentioned toge...

1,921円 This groundbreaking study explores science fiction's complex relationship with colonialism and imperialism. In the first full-length study of the subject, John Rieder argues that the history and ideology of colonialism are crucial components of science fiction's displaced references to history an...

1,760円 Six essays from the critic and award-winning author exploring topics such as theater, LGBTQ+ scholarship, cyborgs, metaphors, and Star Wars. "Reading is a many-layered processーlike writing," observes Samuel R. Delany, a Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author and a major commentator on American lit...

1,440円 This critical anthology presents a multifaceted look at one of the most original and influential voices in both science fiction and feminism. Best known for her groundbreaking feminist sci-fi novel The Female Man (1975), Joanna Russ has produced an important and wide-ranging body of fiction and e...