Télécharger le livre :  Fairies

Fairies: A Companion provides a unique and unparalleled view of the ubiquity of fairies and fairy culture across the world, in its many expressions and manifestations. As well as providing historical perspectives on our belief in the fae, the companion also uniquely...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2025-07-14

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32,60
Télécharger le livre :  IndigePop

Contemporary Indigenous popular culture is a dynamic and expansive cultural field that has been gaining increasing momentum since the turn of the twenty-first century. This edited collection brings together contributions by scholars, artists and practitioners who work...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2025-01-07

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32,60
Télécharger le livre :  Alice Through the Looking-Glass

«This volume is colossal in all senses: most obviously – at over 500 pages – in its sheer physical heft, but most importantly in its ambition, scope and achievement. It brings an unparalleled range of approaches to bear on Carroll’s neglected sequel and in doing so...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2024-08-20

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36,50
Télécharger le livre :  Death in the 21st Century

In the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, death has become an all too familiar feature of the early 2020s. The 21st century has in fact produced a singular historical moment with its unique intersection of popular politics, environmental extremes, globalisation and...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2024-07-23

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32,60
Télécharger le livre :  The Deep

What’s in the Deep? This companion explores the myths and legends of merfolk and sea monsters to navigate our transcultural pasts and environmental presents and explain our endless fascination with the sea. More than any other time in human history, our relationship...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2023-08-31

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Télécharger le livre :  The Undead in the 21st Century

«Beyond the narrow application to the pop-cultural zombie, Simon Bacon’s editorial definition of the concept of being «undead» generates discussions in each chapter that creatively engage with the full agenda of critical debates in studies of horror and the gothic. With...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2022-11-07

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32,60
Télécharger le livre :  Magic

What is Magic? Magic has been present throughout human cultures in history, proving equally constant and mutable. Defined as supernatural powers, an explanatory belief system or a form of entertainment, magic persists to this day in new kinds of magical thinking in our...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2022-06-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Toxic Cultures

«We live in an age defined by toxicity. Bacon and the contributors have produced a timely, astute collection that intelligently and creatively engages and analyzes the wide panoply of trauma and poisoned discourse. Entertaining, fascinating and, honestly, terrifying,...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2022-06-07

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32,60
Télécharger le livre :  Shirley Jackson

2021 Bram Stoker Awards(R) Nominee for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction From the short story «The Lottery» to the masterworks The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson’s popular, often bestselling works experimented with...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2021-06-21

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32,60
Télécharger le livre :  Transmedia Cultures

What is Transmedia? The Transmedia Cultures companion demonstrates that transmedia, and indeed transmedia storytelling, are fundamental to the human experience of being in the world and creating the stories of who we are, both as individuals and communities. Transmedia...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2021-05-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Monsters

What are Monsters? Monsters are everywhere, from cyberbullies online to vampires onscreen: the twenty-first century is a monstrous age. The root of the word «monster» means «omen» or «warning», and if monsters frighten us, it’s because they are here to warn us about...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2020-09-02

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32,60
Télécharger le livre :  Becoming Vampire

Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary study of how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century has been used to create and define difference, not as either a positive or negative attribute, but as a catalyst for change and the exploration of new identity...
Editeur : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2017-02-07

Format(s) : ePub
73,80
Télécharger le livre :  Undead Memory

Vampires have never been as popular in Western culture as they are now: Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and their fans have secured the vampire’s place in contemporary culture. Yet the role vampires play in how we remember our pasts and configure our futures...
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-12-19

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