Ghosts – or the (Nearly) Invisible: Spectral Phenomena in Literature and the Media (ALPH: Arbeiten zur Literarischen Phantastik / ALPH: Approaches to Literary Phantasy, Band 9) - Hardcover

 
9783631665664: Ghosts – or the (Nearly) Invisible: Spectral Phenomena in Literature and the Media (ALPH: Arbeiten zur Literarischen Phantastik / ALPH: Approaches to Literary Phantasy, Band 9)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3631665660 ISBN 13: 9783631665664
Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Maria Fleischhack lectures at Leipzig University with a focus on Victorian and Postmodern fiction and Shakespearean drama; special interest: Sherlock Holmes. Elmar Schenkel teaches English Literature at the University of Leipzig. He has published on Wells, Conrad and Tolkien and the relations between science and literature.

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Verlag
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3631665660
ISBN 13 
9783631665664
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
170
Herausgeber
Fleischhack Maria, Schenkel Elmar
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preigu GmbH & Co. KG
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