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A Familiar Compound Ghost explores the relationship between allusion and the uncanny in literature. An unexpected echo or quotation in a new text can be compared to the sudden appearance of a ghost or mysterious double, the reanimation of a corpse, or the discovery of an ancient ruin hidden in a modern city. In this scholarly and suggestive study

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Contents List
1. Introduction
2. Uncanny doubles: part one
3. Uncanny doubles: part two
4. Ruins
5. Reanimation: Orpheus and Pygmalion
6. The ghost in Hamlet
7. A familiar compound ghost: katabasis and The Tempest
8. Afterword: ‘You’d think she would remember all this from the first time.’
Bibliography

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/10/2012
      ISBN13: 9780719085154, 978-0719085154
      ISBN10: 719085152

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A Familiar Compound Ghost explores the relationship between allusion and the uncanny in literature. An unexpected echo or quotation in a new text can be compared to the sudden appearance of a ghost or mysterious double, the reanimation of a corpse, or the discovery of an ancient ruin hidden in a modern city. In this scholarly and suggestive study

      Table of Contents

      Contents List
      1. Introduction
      2. Uncanny doubles: part one
      3. Uncanny doubles: part two
      4. Ruins
      5. Reanimation: Orpheus and Pygmalion
      6. The ghost in Hamlet
      7. A familiar compound ghost: katabasis and The Tempest
      8. Afterword: ‘You’d think she would remember all this from the first time.’
      Bibliography

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