Автор: Roman Carole P. Название: Oh Susannah: Things That Go Bump ISBN: 1947188135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781947188136 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1792.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Murphy Elizabeth a. Название: Of Lovers and Kings and Monstrous Things ISBN: 0692384790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692384794 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3733.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Of lovers and kings and monstrous things.In one country a woman can have many husbands and infidelity may result in death. In the other country a man can marry as many women as he can hold. Generations of war have resulted in a delicate balance between two countries alike in determination to survive. When the earthquake opens a pass in mountains surrounding the world, a new country awash in riches and potential is revealed to the warring Sarnese and Llweganians. Each combatant society rushes to control this country where monogamy is the written and winked at rule. Just as mountains can rise and crumble so can countries and cultures. People untried by life discover what they can do and the choices they can make. Through the vast landscape of three ecosystems and years of earth scorching war individuals will rise to the challenge of a new way of living and some will fall off the trail into the new chasms created by the shifting of the world. Everything is at risk. Marriages, cultures, and thrones are up for grabs. Warriors, courtiers, priests and peasants battle to secure a future, to define a culture, to rule the world.
Автор: Bohlmann Markus P. J., Moreland Sean Название: Tiny Terrors: Essays on Monstrous Children in the Movies ISBN: 0786494794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786494798 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4990.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While at first glance it may seem strange that so many films portray children as monstrous characters, the essays in this collection begin by recognizing the pervasive popularity, and the wide variety, of such characterizations. Perhaps because of the wisdom received from our Romantic forebears about the purity of the child, fictional imaginings of children as monsters exercise a tremendous fascination for film audiences, and have for several decades.These opposing, and yet co-dependent, tendencies are reflected in the modern connotations of the phrases child-like (innocent) and childish (selfish, perhaps even evil.) Yet unlike most previous scholarly work on this cultural phenomenon, the essays in this collection do not remain arrested by this reductive binary, but strive to unearth the many possibilities, meanings and forms that are hidden by the two-faced mask our imaginings of children all too often wear.
Описание: Examines how the injection of supernatural creatures and mythologies transformed the hugely popular crime procedural television genre. These shows complicate the predictable and comforting patterns of the procedural with the inherently unknowable nature of the supernatural.
The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children raises important questions at the heart of society and culture, and through an interdisciplinary, trans-cultural analysis, presents important findings on socio-cultural representations and embodiments of the child and childhood. At the start of the 21st century, new anxieties constellate around the child and childhood, while older concerns have re-emerged, mutated, and grown stronger. But as historical analysis shows, they have been ever-present concerns. This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture. to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil.
The linkage between children and horror, or horror-full children, would seem an almost natural connection to make given its popularity in contemporary horror films and novels. However, the intersection between the two categories has a long history going back beyond the more obvious Gothic reimaginings of the 19th century with its under-age ghostly terrors revealing that the idea of the 'little horror' is seemingly an inherent demarcation within society between adults and those that are viewed as 'not adults'.
However, as seen in this timely and innovative collection, the anomalous child can also be seen in a positive light, and that resistance to easy categorization can be embraced by wider society as a force for change as can be seen in the recent example of a problematic child/adolescence, Greta Thunberg, a singularly focused individual, who is 16 years-old at the time of writing, has consistently refused to act as desired by the adult society around her in pursuit of gaining recognition of the urgent need for action in regard to environmental change. The book takes an inter- and multidisciplinary approach, drawing upon fields as diverse as sociology, psychology, film, and literature, to study the role of the child and childhood within contemporary Western culture and to see the ways in which each discipline intersects and influences the other, as well as viewing all this through a historical lens.
Автор: Martin Stoddard (Chip) Название: Monstrous Century: Essays in `The Age of the Feuilleton` ISBN: 0936315407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780936315409 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Insights from the old and new literatures of several countries jostle for space in this work - not to mention aesthetics, musicology, mythology, philosophy, poetry, politics, and psychology. The subjects, even when unsympathetic in themselves, are viewed in the round, and judged with humanity. Yet Martin also has a strong moral impulse, as evidenced by the title of this collection. So although he can roam as far back temporally as Perkin Warbeck, and into magical regions with Orpheus, we see in his work a frequent return to more recent periods, and a nagging anxiety to explain why and how Europe went so badly wrong between 1900 and 2000 - particularly the dread duodecennium 1939 - 1945. These essays are thoroughgoing "inductive investigations" of how modern fruits came from old roots - examinations of the ever-tense nexus between past and present, order and "imaginative extremity," Apollo and Dionysus, one episode or opus at a time... Through subtle microscopy, we see Wagner, Nietzsche, Pound, D'Annunzio, C line and others in unexpected lights. We have all heard the charge that these inadvertently (or, as with C line, advertently) helped unleash catastrophe upon a continent - but few arraigners truly understand the contexts from which such men could arise, nor how difficult it can be for humans to bear titanic talents. Martin] not only comprehends the greater circumstances which once in a while throws up geniuses, but can also outline the personal foibles, paradoxes and problems which warp their worldviews, and so our world. This matters, because even the least winsome and oldest-fashioned of them are inseparable from ourselves. "The past isn't dead - it isn't even past," as Faulkner wrote, and so we dissolve constantly in and out of its Cocteau-like mirror, descend at times into an oxidized underside... Martin is a man engaged in the world, trying always to see it differently, make it slightly better than it was five minutes ago. He is a liberal, but unlike many who so self-describe, he is not in thrall to any of the sects of the P. C. cult. He may be a citizen of the world, but he knows which parts can be called home. To him, even a stained civilization can be beautiful, and worthy of continuance, despite all contradictions and crimes. From the Preface by Derek Turner, editor Quarterly Review, 2007-15
Описание: Interdisciplinary Essays on Monsters and the Monstrous analyses and explores the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human societies, and from a unique interdisciplinary scope tackles the critical question: when faced with an existential threat, what can we do?
Автор: Dolby Sherrie, Ginsburg Lisa Название: Things That Go Bump in the Night ISBN: 149363237X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493632374 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1033.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Ward Dani M. Название: Things That Go Bump ISBN: 1736386506 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781736386507 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3492.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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The world as we know it, is now gone forever. Vampires exist. Werewolves are real. Witches can create plagues. Wizards can raise the dead. And on top of that, new creatures are no longer satisfied hiding in the shadows. Now they roam the streets, claiming their place on earth or delivering your pizza. It's in this world that we meet Wren Williams, a beautiful Black siren, and her merry band of friends. Join them on their quest to solve a string of vicious murders, while Wren herself navigates the throes of love and passion. Will Wren's new love with a friend's brother burn out quickly? Can they put a halt to the carnage before one of their own falls victim? To find out, read on to discover what are the things that go bump.
*READER ALERT**
This story contains extremely passionate and descriptive sex scenes. Not suitable for readers under the age of 18 years, or those who may be offended by somewhat graphic descriptions of sexual encounters. This story also contains scenes which include expletives.
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