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Palgrave Macmillan is having a hardcover sale through the end of the year, $20 each.

Some of these books are really expensive under normal conditions. Need something specific and academic at the end of the year?

Happy Holidays | Palgrave

Happy Holidays from Palgrave!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Megamind (2010) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Roxanne Ritchie, Megamind, Minion (Megamind) Additional Tags: Canadian Shack, Humor, Pre-Canon, Pre-Canon Romance Summary:

It's Megamind's most evilly diabolical scheme of evil yet! And it even comes with beautiful surroundings (of evil!) and (evil!) dining.

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She knows where the camera is

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Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to th

Just a heads up, A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies is 9.99$ instead of 109.99$ so if you’re interested now would be a good time to buy it. I never read it though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature, edited by Kevin Corstorphine and Laura R. Kremmel, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Cover design by Katrina Brown/Alamy Stock Photo, info: palgrave.com.

Offers a refreshing update on the genre of Horror Literature, particularly in light of timely theoretical discussions such as queer theory, feminist theory, and animal studies. Traverses time periods and geographical areas, covering topics ranging from medieval European horror to zombie fiction. Establishes the importance of the horror genre within the academy, which has been grossly overlooked and downplayed until recently. This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that can be seen in horror, and ways of understanding horror through literary and cultural theory, the text analyses why horror is so compelling, and how we should interpret its presence in literature. Chapters explore historical horror aspects including ancient mythology, medieval writing, drama, chapbooks, the Gothic novel, and literary Modernism and trace themes such as vampires, children and animals in horror, deep dark forests, labyrinths, disability, and imperialism. Considering horror via postmodern theory, evolutionary psychology, postcolonial theory, and New Materialism, this handbook investigates issues of gender and sexuality, race, censorship and morality, environmental studies, and literary versus popular fiction.

Contents: Foreword – Dawn Keetley Acknowledgments 1 Introduction – Kevin Corstorphine   Part I The Origins and Evolution of Literary Horror 2 Bhayānaka (Horror and the Horrific) in Indian Aesthetics – Dhananjay Singh 3 Horror in the Medieval North: The Troll – Ármann Jakobsson 4 The Horror Genre and Aspects of Native American Indian Literature – Joy Porter 5 Vampires, Shape-Shifters, and Sinister Light: Mistranslating Australian Aboriginal Horror in Theory and Literary Practice – Naomi Simone Borwein 6 Men, Women, and Landscape in American Horror Fiction – Dara Downey 7 Blood Flows Freely: The Horror of Classic Fairy Tales – Lorna Piatti-Farnell 8 Turning Dark Pages and Transacting with the Inner Self: Adolescents’ Perspectives of Reading Horror Texts – Phil Fitzsimmons 9 Horror and Damnation in Medieval Literature – Andrew J. Power 10 The Jacobean Theater of Horror – Tony Perrello 11 “A Mass of Unnatural and Repulsive Horrors”: Staging Horror in Nineteenth-Century English Theater – Sarah A. Winter 12 Horror in Gothic Chapbooks – Franz J. Potter 13 “We Stare and Tremble”: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Horror Novels – Natalie Neill 14 “The Horror! The Horror!”: Tracing Horror in Modernism from Conrad to Eliot – Matthias Stephan 15 Global Horror: Pale Horse, Pale Rider – David Punter   Part II Themes of Literary Horror 16 Vampires: Reflections in a Dark Mirror – Wendy Fall 17 Zombie Fictions – Anya Heise-von der Lippe 18 “You Don’t Think I’m Like Any Other Boy. That’s Why You’re Afraid”: Haunted/Haunting Children from The Turn of the Screw to Tales of Terror – Chloé Germaine Buckley 19 Discussing Dolls: Horror and the Human Double – Sandra Mills 20 “They Have Risen Once: They May Rise Again”: Animals in Horror Literature – Bernice M. Murphy 21 Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Woods?: Deep Dark Forests and Literary Horror – Elizabeth Parker 22 Disability and Horror – Alan Gregory 23 Monstrous Machines and Devilish Devices – Gwyneth Peaty 24 “And Send Her Well-Dos’d to the Grave”: Literary Medical Horror – Laura R. Kremmel 25 Imperial Horror and Terrorism – Johan Höglund 26 Postmodern Literary Labyrinths: Spaces of Horror Reimagined – Katharine Cox   Part III Approaches to Literary Horror 27 Evolutionary Study of Horror Literature – Mathias Clasen 28 Transgressive Horror and Politics: The Splatterpunks and Extreme Horror – Aalya Ahmad 29 Boundary Crossing and Cultural Creation: Transgressive Horror and Politics of the 1990s – Coco d’Hont 30 “Maggot Maladies”: Origins of Horror as a Culturally Proscribed Entertainment – Sarah Cleary 31 The Mother of All Horrors: Medea’s Infanticide in African American Literature – Christina Dokou 32 Horror, Race, and Reality – Ordner W. Taylor III 33 Postcolonial Horror – Tabish Khair 34 Conceptualizing Varieties of Space in Horror Fiction – Andrew Hock Soon Ng 35 Toward an Acoustics of Literary Horror – Matt Foley 36 Hesitation Marks: The Fantastic and the Satirical in Postmodern Horror – Laura Findlay 37 “It’s Alive!” New Materialism and Literary Horror – Susan Yi Sencindiver 38 Horror “After Theory” – Lyle Enright Index

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Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe

"Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe" Daniel Bellingradt & Bernd-Christian Otto

In the world of contemporary academic publishing the printing overhead has sunk to near zero. Printing is so cheap if you do it in bulk that you can publish near to anything, and many larger publishers have aspirations to corner niche academic markets by turning academic thesis's into books wholesale.

I was extremely excited to get the press release for this volume, an intriguing look at the history of a set of 140 volumes sold in private in 18th century Germany. The trade of illicit books is one I find fascinating and my anticipation of "Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe" was rewarded with a complex work of strong material and poor editorship.

Subtitled "The Clandestine Trade in Illegal Book Collections", "Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe" examines in detail a collection of 140 manuscripts of, as it puts it, "learned magic" (always in quotes) that were sold for an incredible sum of money in the early 18th century.

The collection, which has survived almost intact in the Leipzig University Library, was clearly the work of a book collector of a single minded purpose, one Samuel Schroer, who went to great lengths to obtain works of a more or less practical nature involving conjuration, spirit binding, and treasure finding. These works, many of which would have failed an inspection of books censors, were traded "under the table" so to speak, as the risk involved was great, so was the cost of the collection.

"Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe" centers its inquiry on a catalogue of sale " 'Catalogus Rariorum Manuscriptorum" that was produced for the collection in 1710, and subsequently reproduced as a reference list by other printers. This catalogue provides a list of the occult works on offer and their nature in four pages of printed text. It was only after the sale was completed that censors became aware of the collection, though were never able to locate it due to the catalogues lack of seller or printer names.

This book, or rather the meat of its contents, is a gem of academic writing. It looks clearly and closely at a collection in a way that illuminates a facet of bibliographic history. The first half of the book is a historiographic speculation on the variables of the sale, a who, what, why, and how of its social and legal contexts. The remainder of the work is a detailed list and description of each item listed in the catalogue and what it is about. Fascinating at every level, the publisher Springer have kindly posted the full set of appendix descriptions online as a pdf here.

The travesty of this work is that it is presented in an awkward school boy format, each chapter opening like a dissertation with a brief abstract and other formal nonsense. Whatever editor was involved in not shaping this work into something more palatable should feel true shame.

Additionally the entire tone that the authors take, a very 20th century arms length approach to the subject of magic, wears on the reader. Compartmentalizing the subject matter as "learned magic", always in quotes throughout the entire text, just doesn't make for an easy read.

It is 2017, and yet academic researchers are still unable or unwilling to come to terms with magic as a thing. Possibly a leftover from the days of Protestant purges of professors accused of necromancy, more than likely a reaction to the post rationalist shame and embarrassment of saying "magic" and meaning it in the hallowed halls of academia. The authors come across as limp and weak in regards to the subject matter of the works they seek to describe. All of this, though, could easily have been rectified by an editor who sought to make a work of shelf worthiness, instead of just an endless stream of academic library trash heap fodder.

As an occult book collector "Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe" provides an extended reference to works like Owen Davies' excellent "Grimoiries" and will sit with due respect among my shelves. It deserves a proper edition with some editorial oversight, and a paid designer for the binding, but at least we have been given access to this commendable, uncut gem.

Get your copy here:

"Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe" Daniel Bellingradt & Bernd-Christian Otto

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