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Ghosts - or the (Nearly) Invisible Spectral Phenomena in Literature and the Media / Elmar Schenkel, Maria Fleischhack.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (173 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101525
- ISBN:
- 9783653059625
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3726/978-3-653-05962-5
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