Donald E Palumbo: 4 books
Of Bread, Blood and The Hunger Games: Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy
Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
This collection of fresh essays on Suzanne Collins's epic trilogy spans multiple disciplines. The contributors probe the trilogy's meaning using theories grounded in historicism, feminism, humanism, queer theory, as well as cultural, political, and media studies. The essayists demonstrate diverse...
The Monomyth in American Science Fiction Films
28 Visions of the Hero's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
One of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century, Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces is an elaborate articulation of the monomyth: the narrative pattern underlying countless stories from the most ancient myths and legends to the films and television series of today. The...
A Dune Companion
Characters, Places and Terms in Frank Herbert's Original Six Novels
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
This companion to Frank Herbert’s six original Dune novels—Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune—provides an encyclopedia of characters, locations, terms and other elements, and highlights the series’ underrated aesthetic integrity....
An Asimov Companion
Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/Empire/Foundation Metaseries
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
A prolific author, Isaac Asimov is most admired for his science fiction, including his collection of short stories I, Robot and his Robot, Empire and Foundation series novels. While each of these narratives takes place in a different fictional universe, Asimov asserted at the end of his career that...