Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction. Marvellous excess and monstrous mutations : on dishing up and spinning (out) biblical words -- -- 1. …”

“…Los grandes temas, el sentido, la muerte, el amor o la justicia van alojándose a lo largo de estas páginas construyendo una especie de guía humanística que recorre el universo Marvel y DC. Víctor Alvarado recorre la galaxia de los superhéroes y nos hace su propuesta ética, nos descubre la postura religiosa que mantienen y los valores que ponen en juego. …”

“….” &#8212 Bruce Bourbon General Partner, Telos Venture Partners “There are two kinds of people that read the Dilbert comic strip: folks that take a moment to marvel at how accurately it reflects life at their company before moving on to the next comic strip, and folks that think Dilbert is an amusing reminder that high tech companies can and should be better than Dilbert’s world. …”

“…Yet as much as people marvel at the speed of progress, all this change can be difficult to handle. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…ALREDEDOR DE LA NOSTALGIAMI PARÍS; MACONDO PARA INGLESES; POR UN HOTEL; HISTORIA DE UN MATRIMONIO; EL CAIMÁN Y TOMASITA; "VEINTE ASEDIOS AL AMOR Y A LA MUERTE"; SOBRE MARVEL MORENO; CUENTEROS; JAPONESERÍAS; DE CÓMO NO HE CONOCIDO A GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ; EL COPISTA; EL ENVIADO; TROPIEZOS; EL EXPLORADOR; LA BARRANQUILLA DE MIS NOVELAS Y DE MIS AMORES…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hartle -- The fireside Vikings and the the "Boy's own" Vinland : Vinland in popular English and American literature (1841-1926) / Geraldine Barnes -- Agnes of Sorrento : Harriet Beecher Stowe's medieval correction to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The marble faun / Caroline Gebhard -- Alexander Grosart's Donne and Marvell / Charles Larson -- "Women are knights-errant to the last" : nineteenth-century women writers reinvent the medieval literary damsel / Natalie Joy Woodall -- Medieval narrative conventions and the putative antimedievalism of Twain's Connecticut Yankee / Anita Obermeier…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Publisher's preface -- Bill of sale -- The history of the great Gaon, the holy, supernal Maharal of Prague, may the memory of that righteous, saintly man be a blessing for life in the world to come -- The Maharal's battle against the blood libel -- The Maharal's suggestion to have a disputation with the priests -- The disputation -- "A man who excels at his work shall attend upon kings" : this is the Maharal -- How the Maharal created the golem -- How Yossele the golem carried water for Passover -- How Yossele the golem caught fish for Rosh Hashana -- For what purposes the Maharal used the golem -- The Maharal's first miracle with the golem -- The astonishing tale of the healer's daughter -- The wondrous and famous story known as "The daughter's misfortune" -- A very amazing tale about a blood libel by the priest Thaddeus which caused his final downfall and his banishment from Prague -- The marvelous story of the wonder of wonders that the Maharal revealed to the two Berls whose two children were switched by a midwife -- The astounding story of the Torah that fell to the floor on Yom Kippur -- The attack on Yossele the golem -- An awesome tale about the ruin near Prague -- A wondrous tale about Duke Bartholomew -- The last blood libel in Prague during the Maharal's lifetime -- How the Maharal brought about the end of the golem -- The Maharal's remarks concerning the golem -- A miraculous event pertaining to the Maharal's engagement…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Worlds, today / The aesthetics of proliferation / Building science-fiction worlds / "He doesn't look like Sherlock Holmes": the truth value and existential status of fictional worlds and their characters / "Visible world": the atlas as a visual form of knowledge and narrative paradigm in contemporary art / A world of Disney: building a transmedia storyworld for Mickey and his friends / World-building logics and copyright: the Dark Knight and the Great Detective / Battleworlds: the management of multiplicity in the media industries / Platform producer meets game master: on the conditions for the media mix / Narrative ecosystems: a multidisciplinary approach to media worlds / The building and blurring of worlds: sound, space, and complex narrative cinema / Beyond immersion: absorption, saturation, and overflow in the building of imaginary worlds / Zombie escape and survival plans: mapping the transmedial world of the dead / MMORPG as locally realized worlds of action / The worries of the world(s): cartoons and cinema / Linguistic terrain and world time: Chinese media theories and their world imaginations / The worlds align: media convergence and complementary storyworlds in Marvel's Thor: The Dark World / World building and metafiction in contemporary comic books: metalepsis and figurative process of graphic fiction / The monster at the end of this book: metalepsis, fandom, and world making in contemporary TV series / Traversing the "Whoniverse": Doctor Who's hyperdiegesis and transmedia discontinuity/diachrony / Transmediaphilia, world building, and the pleasures of the personal digital archive / The politics of world building: heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe's Afrofuturist WondaLand…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dynamizing Invectivity: The Role of Invectives in the Boundary Work of the Genre -- 5.1 Embarrassment as an Invective Strategy in the Mockumentary Sitcoms The Comeback and Parks and Recreation -- 5.2 Deconstructing the Dramedy: Invective Structures in the Fusion of Drama and Comedy in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel -- 5.3 Reviving Roseanne: Capitalizing Nostalgia and Invectives in Times of the Trump Presidency -- 6. …”

“…Los autores participantes en Hijos del átomo, reconocidos especialistas en la cultura del cómic como Raimon Fonseca, Servando Rocha, Óscar Broc, Alberto García Marcos, Gerardo Vilches, Unai Velasco, Eloy Fernández Porta, Jordi Costa, Juan Trejo, Albert Fernández y Octavio Botana desgranan importantes cuestiones de fondo sobre la saga en cada uno de los ensayos: los orígenes de los mutantes y la realidad científica que les envuelve, los orígenes sionistas de Magneto, los conflictos éticos que guían los actos de Charles Xavier o Magneto, la naturaleza mística de Jean Grey, la dimensión transgénero de Mística o el universo Marvel como distopía política y adolescente. En definitiva, el grupo de mutantes con superpoderes como una parábola de nuestro presente. …”

“…Horrible son sólo algunas de las aportaciones de Joss Whedon a la cultura popular, personajes que se unen a los grandes superhéroes de Marvel y los mitos del cine y la literatura para conformar una influyente obra de ya casi dos décadas.…”

“…Because even though the SSIS catalog of built-in tasks and components is a marvel of engineering, there do remain gaps in the functionality that is provided. …”

“…In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the ""bodies"" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans ""beamed"" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…En busca de Arcadia -- MÉXICO: "PRIMAVERA INMORTAL" Y "EMPORIO" DE TODA LA AMÉRICA / LA CIUDAD ENEMIGA Y EL JARDÍN SECRETO EN MARVEL MORENO / ARCADIAS EN AMÉRICA (EL ARTE DE LA JARDINERÍA EN JULIO RAMÓN RIBEYRO) / LA SUSURRANTE VASTEDAD / III. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The rebuke of the gnostic and the oriental Renaissance ; Comparative mystics ; Ramakrishna: colonialism, universalism, mysticism ; Doctrinal and historical-critical analysis ; Ramakrishna and the comparativist ; The critical study of religion as a modern mystical tradition ; The scandal of comparison ; Professional heresy: the gnostic study of religion -- Interlude: Logoi mystikoi; or how to think like a gnostic -- Mutant marvels. Educational and sexual allegory ; On puberty and powers ; Denying the demiurge ; Toward a more radical empiricism ; Dissociation and the release of nonordinary energies ; On death as dissociation ; Real X-Men ; On x-clusions and x-ceptions ; Political allegory; or, how (not) to be an X-Man -- Conclusion: return to the garden. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Zeichmann -- Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel's Thor Film Trilogy / Samantha Langsdale -- No One's Going to Be Looking at Your Face: The Female Gaze and the New (Super)Man in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman / Anna F. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…BARON -- Chapter 11: Licensing Metaphor: Parker, Marvell, and the Debate over Conscience 243 -- LANA CABLE -- Chapter 12: John Dryden's Angry Readers 26x -- ANNA BATTIGELLI -- Afterword: Records of Culture 282 -- STEPHEN ORGEL…”

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