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Peter S. Beagle's “The Last Unicorn”
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 2024
608 kr
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This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle. Through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn, this study contextualises Beagle’s work in relation to the popularity of the fantasy genre, following its growing success in the aftermath of …
William Gibson's "Neuromancer"
A Critical Companion
Häftad, 2024
724 kr
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William Gibson’s Neuromancer: A Critical Companion presents Gibson’s rise as an influential figure within and beyond the science fiction field. Gibson’s success with Neuromancer, the first novel to win the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and Philip K. Dick Award, is in part a direct result of the rising …
Ann Leckie’s "Ancillary Justice"
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 2022
608 kr
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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 that examine key themes central to the …
Janelle Monáe’s "Dirty Computer"
Inbunden, 2022
685 kr
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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 global media personality who …
Janelle Monáe’s "Dirty Computer"
Häftad, 2023
685 kr
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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 global media personality who …
Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere"
Inbunden, 2022
547 kr
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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 Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere offers …
Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere"
Häftad, 2023
547 kr
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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 Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere offers …
Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 2022
607 kr
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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 metafictional properties. In Stars, …
Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination
A Critical Companion
Häftad, 2023
607 kr
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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 metafictional properties. In Stars, …
Jeff Noon's "Vurt"
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 2022
547 kr
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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 constructivist relationship to genre, …
Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood
A Critical Companion
Av Paul Kincaid
Inbunden, 2022
608 kr
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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 ideas of time as something fluid and …
J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit"
Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion
Häftad, 2022
245 kr
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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 ultimately a historical novel. It does …
Frank Herbert's "Dune"
A Critical Companion
Av Kara Kennedy
Inbunden, 2022
330 kr
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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 and consciousness, the complex nature of the …
BioWare's Mass Effect
Inbunden, 2022
446 kr
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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 science fiction as a genre …
BioWare's Mass Effect
Häftad, 2023
446 kr
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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 science fiction as a genre …
Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Wizard of Earthsea"
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 2023
607 kr
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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 several decades earned its …
Peter S. Beagle's “The Last Unicorn”
A Critical Companion
Häftad, 2025
607 kr
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This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle. Through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn, this study contextualises Beagle’s work in relation to the popularity of the fantasy genre, following its growing success in the aftermath of …
Keith Roberts’s Pavane
A Critical Companion
Av Paul Kincaid
Inbunden, 2024
464 kr
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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 Pavane, this study also presents a …
Keith Roberts’s Pavane
A Critical Companion
Av Paul Kincaid
Häftad, 2025
464 kr
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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 Pavane, this study also presents a …
J. G. Ballard's "Crash"
Inbunden, 2024
547 kr
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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 Wave science fiction, the ur-source for …
J. G. Ballard's "Crash"
Häftad, 2025
547 kr
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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 Wave science fiction, the ur-source for …
George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 2026
487 kr
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This book provides a brief scholarly introduction to A Game of Thrones, the first volume of George R. R. Martin's ongoing series A Song of Ice and Fire. The book examines Martin's novel as a shrewd, genre-literate utilization of commonplaces and imperatives of its genre. Young focuses on various …
Marvel's Squadron Supreme
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 2026
485 kr
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This book closely reads Mark Gruenwald's Squadron Supreme for its complex, contradictory, yet ultimately productive engagement with the social dreaming of utopianism. Specifically, Squadron Supreme provides critical traction for readers to engage with the social dreaming of utopianism by asking how …
China Miéville's "Bas-Lag" Series
A Critical Companion
Av Rob O'Connor
Inbunden, 2026
520 kr
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This book offers a critical overview focused on the Bas-Lag trilogy of novels by British speculative fiction writer, China Miéville. The Bas-Lag trilogy is a significant re-evaluation of the fantasy fiction genre, infused with contemporary political commentary presented through recognisable, albeit …
