2,479円 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 ne...

5,207円 Utopia and Dystopia in Tolkien’s Legendarium explores how Tolkien’s works speak to many modern people’s utopian desires despite the overwhelming dominance of dystopian literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also examines how Tolkien’s malevolent societies in his legendarium ha...

4,454円 Maternity in the Post-Apocalypse: Novelistic Revisions of Dystopian Motherhood deconstructs the ways in which women novelists have reconceived the post-apocalyptic genre in recent decades through narratives centered on heroic maternal characters. These writers have placed midwives, pregnant women...

4,695円 In the early twentieth century, the Dadaists protested against art, nationalism, the individual subject, and technologized war. With their automatic anti-art and cultural disruptiveness, Dadaists sought to “signify no thing.” Today, data also operates autonomously. However, rather than dismantlin...

11,436円 Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolaño's Narrative and Virtual Reality presents interpretations of several novels and one short story by Roberto Bolaño. As befits the global setting of most of these narratives, they are analyzed from the perspective of global culture and politics. Particular attention ...

1,440円 Of course you have! (Or if you haven't, perhaps you should.) Now Mitchell Symons, the reigning King of All Pointless Trivia, carries his inquisitiveness unabashedly into the bedroom and emerges with a smile, answering not only the above but also a veritable "pornucopia" of scandalous and sexual c...

1,300円 Quello della distopia è un topos letterario-filosofico particolarmente caro alla contemporaneità. Grazie alle sue diverse e variegate manifestazioni, ha messo radici negli ambiti culturali più disparati, divenendo un’inesauribile fonte d’ispirazione per la cosiddetta pop culture. A prescindere da...

950円 In "Awakening of the Dragons," a tapestry of myth and reality is masterfully woven, transporting readers to a world where the impossible becomes tangible. This enthralling novel, set in a realm where dragons have slumbered for millennia, unfolds a story of awakening – both literal and metaphorica...

451円 Fantascienza - rivista (55 pagine) - La nostra rivista di approfondimento si occupa di 3 Body Problem, la serie tratta dal bestseller di Liu Cixin, di Arthur C. Clarke, di Godzilla e Kong - Il nuovo impero e di Alberto Robida Pur essendo da tempo disponibile su YouTube una serie prodotta in Cina ...

1,760円 J.R.R. Tolkien claimed that he based the land of Middle Earth on a real place. The Real Middle Earth brings alive, for the first time, the very real civilization in which those who lived had a vision of life animated by beings beyond the material world. Magic was real to these people and they bel...

1,760円 An award-winning author's literary biography "captures . . . [Dick's] sense of humor, his intellectual curiosity, his very human vulnerability . . . Compelling" (Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle). For his many devoted readers, Philip K. Dick is not only one of the "one of the most valiant p...

1,760円 For the first time, the real story of the life of Robert A. Heinlein in the authorized biography Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and graduate of Anna...