Tous les ebooks de la collection "Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon" - Palgrave Macmillan

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Télécharger le livre : Keith Roberts's Pavane
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Keith Roberts's Pavane
Paul Kincaid
This book offers an in-depth analysis of Keith Roberts's Pavane and explores why this work was instrumental to the evolution of the Science Fiction genre in British Literature. In addition to a focused exploration of the individual stories and themes that make up...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-11-14
Collection : Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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37,09 €
Télécharger le livre : J. G. Ballard's "Crash"
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J. G. Ballard's "Crash"
Paul March-Russell
J.G. Ballard's Crash (1973) remains a byword for transgression in literature: declared 'too disgusting for words' upon publication. The basis for David Cronenberg's equally provocative film, Crash has been regarded variously as the apotheosis of New...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-10-31
Collection : Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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42,39 €
Télécharger le livre : Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea"
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Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea"
Timothy S. Miller
Written not so long after "Tolkien mania" first gripped the United States in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin's novel A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) has long been recognized as a classic of the fantasy genre, and the series of Earthsea books that followed on it over the next...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-03-01
Collection : Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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52,99 €
Télécharger le livre : Ann Leckie's "Ancillary Justice"
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Ann Leckie's "Ancillary Justice"
David M. Higgins
This book argues that Ann Leckie’s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-11-28
Collection : Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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52,99 €
Télécharger le livre : BioWare's Mass Effect
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BioWare's Mass Effect
Jerome Winter
The videogame series Mass Effect is a remarkable rarity not only for being an original science-fictional franchise of recent vintage that has risen to such prominent commercial and critical success in popular culture but also for pushing the canonical boundaries of how...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-11-24
Collection : Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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42,39 €
Télécharger le livre : Frank Herbert's "Dune"
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Frank Herbert's "Dune"
Kara Kennedy
This book offers a critical study of Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965), the world’s bestselling science fiction novel. Kara Kennedy discusses the novel’s exploration of politics and religion, its influential ecological messages, the focus on the human mind...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-09-30
Collection : Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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52,99 €
Télécharger le livre : J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit"
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J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit"
Robert T. Tally Jr.
This book is a critical introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, but it also advances an argument about the novel in the context of Tolkien’s larger literary and philosophical project. Notwithstanding its canonical place in the fantasy genre, The Hobbit is...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-09-19
Collection : Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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26,49 €
Télécharger le livre : Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood
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Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood
Paul Kincaid
This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century. It goes through Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock considering how it engages with war on a personal and family level, how it plays with...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-08-20
Collection : Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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52,99 €
Télécharger le livre : Jeff Noon's "Vurt"
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Jeff Noon's "Vurt"
Andrew C. Wenaus
This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon’s iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993). In this first book-length study of the novel, which includes an extended interview with Noon, Wenaus considers how Vurt complicates the process of literary canonization, its...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-08-01
Collection : Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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47,69 €
Télécharger le livre : A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere"
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A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere"
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s briskly written A Critical Companion to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-05-31
Collection : Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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47,69 €
Télécharger le livre : Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination
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Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination
D. Harlan Wilson
In this comprehensive study of The Stars My Destination, D. Harlan Wilson makes a case for the continued significance of Alfred Bester’s SF masterwork, exploring its distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well as its extensive...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-04-25
Collection : Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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52,99 €
Télécharger le livre : Janelle Monáe's "Dirty Computer"
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Janelle Monáe's "Dirty Computer"
Dan Hassler-Forest
 This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer, an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously as a concept album and a visual album or “emotion picture” in spring 2018. In the previous decade, Janelle Monáe has developed into a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-01-11
Collection : Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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63,59 €