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In this volume, ghost stories are studied in the context of their media, their place in history and geography. From prehistory to this day, we have been haunted by our memories, the past itself, by inklings of the future, by events playing outside our lives, and by ourselves. Hence the lure of ghost stories throughout history and presumably prehistory. Science has been a great destroyer of myth and superstition, but at the same time it has created new black boxes which we are filling with our ghostly imagination. In this book, literature from the Middle Ages to Oscar Wilde and Neil Gaiman, children’s stories, folklore and films, ranging from the Antarctic and Russia to Haiti, are covered and show the continuing presence of spectral phenomena.



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Literary ghosts – Ghosts in different cultures – Interpretations of ghostly occurrences – Ghosts as metaphors – Ghostly places – Supernatural phenomena

Ghosts – or the (Nearly) Invisible: Spectral

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/07/2016
      ISBN13: 9783631665664, 978-3631665664
      ISBN10: 3631665660

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In this volume, ghost stories are studied in the context of their media, their place in history and geography. From prehistory to this day, we have been haunted by our memories, the past itself, by inklings of the future, by events playing outside our lives, and by ourselves. Hence the lure of ghost stories throughout history and presumably prehistory. Science has been a great destroyer of myth and superstition, but at the same time it has created new black boxes which we are filling with our ghostly imagination. In this book, literature from the Middle Ages to Oscar Wilde and Neil Gaiman, children’s stories, folklore and films, ranging from the Antarctic and Russia to Haiti, are covered and show the continuing presence of spectral phenomena.



      Table of Contents

      Literary ghosts – Ghosts in different cultures – Interpretations of ghostly occurrences – Ghosts as metaphors – Ghostly places – Supernatural phenomena

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