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Arthurian Literature XXV
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 90.00The most recent research in matters Arthurian, by leading scholars in the field. more...
Gestaltung und Durchführung von Buchverlagsverträgen.
Duncker & Humblot 2011; US$ 56.08Hauptbeschreibung Der Autor untersucht den typischen Inhalt von Verlagsverträgen und die Übereinstimmung oder Diskrepanz zwischen Vertragsinhalt und Vertragsdurchführung bzw. Abwicklung von Vertragsstörungen. Die Arbeit gehört mit einer solchen Fragestellung in den Bereich der empirischen Rechtssoziologie. Ihr Ziel ist zunächst, Recht und Realität... more...
Superman and Philosophy
Wiley 2013; US$ 17.95Go beyond the cape and into the mind of the Man of Steel, in time for release of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel movie and Superman's 75th anniversary He has thrilled millions for 75 years, with a legacy that transcends national, cultural, and generational borders, but is there more to the Man of Steel than just your average mythic superhero in a cape?... more...
The Legend of the Grail
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 14.57The Grail legends have been appropriated by novelists as diverse as Umberto Eco and Dan Brown yet very few have read for themselves the original stories from which they came. All the mystery and drama of the Arthurian world are embodied in the extraordinary tales of Perceval, Gawain, Lancelot and Galahad in pursuit of the Holy Grail. The original... more...
The Historical Roots of Medieval Literature Battle and Ballad
The Edwin Mellen Press 1992; US$ 179.95The powerful works contained in this study form an epic all their own - a literary triumph whose roots lie in the anxieties and aspirations of the societies which gave them birth. Included for study: Celtic fairy tales and nursery rhymes; Irish bardic literature; the Britano-Welsh material (the Mabinogion); the Germanic epic; Latin Christian verse;... more...
Arthurian Bibliography IV
Boydell & Brewer 2002; US$ 165.00With the appearance in 1999 of the very extensive interim volume covering the years 1978 to 1992, the Arthurian Bibliography became once more the critical source for Arthurian Scholars. This fourth volume of entries, culled in the main from BBSIA, covers the years 1993 to 1998 inclusive. more...
Redrawing the Nation
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 95.00Redrawing The Nation: Latin American Comics and The Graphic Construction of Cultural identities is a collective effort to map out some of the complexities structuring the field of comics production, and its history and analysis in Latin/o America. more...
Comics and the U.S. South
University Press of Mississippi 2011; US$ 55.00Comics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman's Metropolis or Chris Ware's Chicago to the swamps, back roads, small... more...
Slayer's Reign in Blood
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 49.95Slayer’s controversial Reign in Blood remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal: a seamless. procession of 10 blindingly fast songs in just 28. minutes, delivered in furious bursts of a instrumental. precision, with lyrics so striking that Tori Amos was. moved to record a cover. Reign in Blood saw the. emerging underground standouts from... more...
The Arthur of the North
University of Wales Press 2011; US$ 85.00The book introduces the reader to the stories about King Arthur and his knights and the lovers Tristan and Isolt that flourished in the Scandinavian countriesin Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Swedenin the Middle Ages and in early modern times. The versions of the Arthurian legend that were popular in the North were translations of mostly... more...









