Autore	Gomel Elana
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xlvii, 234 p. )
Disciplina	809/.93355
Soggetto topico	Detective and mystery stories - History and criticism Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature Violence in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8142-7345-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910552777403321

Autore	Gomel Elana
Edizione	[1st ed. 2025.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (323 pages)
Disciplina	809.9336
Altri autori (Persone)	BaconSimon
Collana	Palgrave Gothic
Soggetto topico	Goth culture (Subculture) Gothic Studies
ISBN	3-031-92621-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Chapter 1: Introduction and Recommended Reading -- Chapter 2: “He looks not like the People of the lower Orb”: Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon as Proto-Lunar Gothic -- Chapter 3: Phases of the Moon in Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood -- Chapter 4: Satire, Science, and Skepticism: Viewing the Lunar Hoaxes of Edgar Allen Poe and Richard Adams Locke as Discourse on Uncertainty in the Antebellum Period -- Chapter 5: When the Full Moon Rises: Masculinities, Aging, and Updating the Lycanthropic Myth in Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf -- Chapter 6: “the terror of the rustics”; or, Witches and Werewolves: Lunar and ecoGothic Monstrosities in Catherine Crowe’s “A Story of a Weir-Wolf” (1846) and The Nightside of Nature (1847) -- Chapter 7: Children of the Night’s Light: The Moon as a Structuring Element of Vampire Fiction from Polidori’s The Vampyre to The Twilight Saga -- Chapter 8: Crackle and Drag: Sylvia Plath’s lunar Gothic in “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” “The Rival” and “Edge.” -- Chapter 9: Illuminating the Darkness: Lunar Representation in Children’s Literature -- Chapter 10: The Lunar Poetics of Transformation in “The Yellow Wallpaper” -- Chapter 11: Lunacy: Anxieties on Modernity in Luigi Bazzoni’s Footprints in the Moon -- Chapter 12: The Moon as Mirror in The Hungry Moon, Waking the Moon, and Moondial -- Chapter 13: Lunar Gothic and the Grotesque in Hushang Golshiri’s “The wolf” -- Chapter 14: The Moon in Requiem for a Beast: An Apophasis of Colonial Transgression and Indigenous Suppression -- Chapter 15: Moon, Music, and Melancholia: Gothic Aesthetics in Kuroshitisuji’s Lacrimosa -- Chapter 16: “Blood Moon”: Lunar Monstrous Spaces in Gothic Science Fiction -- Chapter 17: Sterility Across Chasms: Dead Worlds and Technological Imaginations in Meredith Ann Pierces Darkangel Series.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9911021973203321

Autore	Gomel Elana
Edizione	[1st ed. 2023.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (346 pages)
Disciplina	809.38766
Altri autori (Persone)	GurevitchDanielle
Soggetto topico	Fiction Literature Comparative literature Popular culture Fiction Literature World Literature Comparative Literature Popular Culture
ISBN	9783031263972 3031263979
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1.Fantasy as Genre: On Defining the Field of Study -- 2. Allotopia: World-Building in Fantasy -- 3. Bio-Cultural Taxonomy -- 4. A Thousand and one Book: A Cross Cultural Approach to serialized fantasy -- 5.Children’s Crosshatch Fantasy: Disturbing Portals, Crises and Comings-of-Age -- 6.Hybrid Secondary Worlds: Animal Fantasy -- 7."How did you go about saving a city? She googled it": Urban Fantasy Cities as Communities of citizens -- 8. Punk Subculture in Urban Fantasy: Life on the Border -- 9. History and Other (Colonial) Fantasies: Indigenous Time play in Cleverman -- 10. Chinese Danmei: Male-Male Romance, Women’s Fantasy, and the Feminization of Labor in the Digital Age -- 11.Between Scylla & Charybdis: A Survey of Greece Fantasy Fiction -- 12.Re-imagining Hindu Mythology in the 21st Century: Amish Tripathi and Indian Fantasy Fiction in English -- 13. Looking for an Italian-Style Fantasy -- 14.Wilderness as Wonderland: Talmudic Stories and Modern Israeli Fantasy -- 15. Israeli Fantasy and Science Fiction: Fantastical Chronotopes and The Modern Promised Land -- 16.The Little Red Gloves: Apocalyptic Fantasy and the Bodhisattva of Mercy in a Japanese Picture Book on Hiroshima -- 17.Latin American Fantasy as Heterogeneous: Between Neomedievalism and LatinAmericanism -- 18.Cultural Appropriation of Poland’s Fantasy: The Cold War Saga o Wiedźminie Moving into American Mainstream Culture -- 19.Syncretism in Russian fantasy -- 20.Mystification, Religious Imagery and Fantasy in Modern Tibetan Literature. .
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910728941703321

Autore	Gomel Elana
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Continuum, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (190 p.)
Disciplina	809.3/8762
Collana	Continuum literary studies
Soggetto topico	Science fiction - History and criticism Time in literature Postmodernism (Literature)
ISBN	1-4725-4273-8 1-282-76578-7 9786612765780 1-4411-7883-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: Time enough for world -- Time machines: H.G. Wells and the invention of postmodernity -- Strangled by the time loop: paradoxes of determinism -- 'My name is might-have-been': contingency, counterfactuals and moral choice -- Everyday apocalypse: the ethics and aesthetics of the end of time -- Conclusion: Beyond millennium 1. Introduction: World Enough and Time -- 2. The Times Machines -- 3. Strangled by a Time Loop: Paradoxes of Determinism -- 4. The Garden of History: The Branching Paths of Contingency -- 5. Everyday Apocalypse: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the End of Time -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910459946003321

Autore	Gomel Elana
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Continuum, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (190 p.)
Disciplina	809.3/8762
Collana	Continuum literary studies
Soggetto topico	Science fiction - History and criticism Time in literature Postmodernism (Literature)
ISBN	1-4725-4273-8 1-282-76578-7 9786612765780 1-4411-7883-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction: Time enough for world -- Time machines: H.G. Wells and the invention of postmodernity -- Strangled by the time loop: paradoxes of determinism -- 'My name is might-have-been': contingency, counterfactuals and moral choice -- Everyday apocalypse: the ethics and aesthetics of the end of time -- Conclusion: Beyond millennium 1. Introduction: World Enough and Time -- 2. The Times Machines -- 3. Strangled by a Time Loop: Paradoxes of Determinism -- 4. The Garden of History: The Branching Paths of Contingency -- 5. Everyday Apocalypse: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the End of Time -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910785669303321