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Ghosts -- or the (nearly) invisible : spectral phenomena in literature and the media /

This collection of articles looks at ghost stories ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary movies from different perspectives, both interdisciplinary and international. Spectral phenomena from Antarctic literature to Haitian Voodoo, Russian poetry to Irish novels are discussed in relation to th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fleischhack, Maria, 1983- (Editor ), Schenkel, Elmar, 1953- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2016.
Colección:Alph ; volume 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface: Ghosts
  • or the (Nearly) Invisible11(2) Medieval Ghosts: the Stories of the Monk of Byland 13(12) Maik Hildebrandt Speaking of Seeing Ghosts: Visions of the Supernatural in the Tales of Catherine Crowe 25(10) Ruth Heholt The Ghost of Oscar Wilde: Fictional Representations 35(10) Eleanor Dobson Ghostly Science or Scientific Ghosts: The Fourth Spatial Dimension in Children's Literature 45(12) Kati Voigt Carl Gustav lung and the Ghosts 57(14) Claudia Richter "They only see what they wanna see': Traumatised Ghosts and Ghost Story Conventions in The Sixth Sense and The Others 71(16) Desiree Kriesch At the Hollow, there was Magic' The Language of Kim Newman's Ghost Novel 87(4) Clausdirk Pollner Neil Gaiman's Ghost Children 91(16) Dominik Becher The Ghost as a Metaphor for Memory in the Irish Literary Psyche 107(8) Julia Kunz "I Know not who these Mute Folk Are"
  • Ghostly Houses in Early Twentieth Century English and American Poetry 115(10) Sophie Thiele Haunting the Wide, White Page
  • Ghosts in Antarctica 125(12) Johanna Grabow The Loa as Ghosts in Haitian Vodou 137(10) Julia Pfeifer From Cultural Ghosts to Literary Ghosts
  • Humanisation of Chinese Ghosts in Chinese Zhiguai 147(14) Minwen Huang Mystic Motifs in Silver Age Poetry and Prose 161 Vera Shamina.