Ghosts – or the (Nearly) Invisible: Spectral Phenomena in Literature and the Media

doi:10.3726/978-3-653-05962-5

Ghosts – or the (Nearly) Invisible: Spectral Phenomena in Literature and the Media

dc.contributor.editor	Fleischhack, Maria
dc.contributor.editor	Schenkel, Elmar
dc.date.accessioned	2021-06-03T09:41:24Z
dc.date.available	2021-06-03T09:41:24Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	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.
dc.description.abstract	Maik Hildebrandt: "Medieval Ghosts: the Stories of the Monk of Byland" 13 // Ruth Heholt: "Speaking of Seeing Ghosts: Visions of the Supernatural in the Tales of Catherine Crowe" 25 // Eleanor Dobson: "The Ghost of Oscar Wilde: Fictional Representations" 35 // Kati Voigt: "Ghostly Science or Scientifc Ghosts: The Fourth Spatial Dimension in Children’s Literature" 45 // Claudia Richter: "Carl Gustav Jung and the Ghosts" 57 // Désirée Kriesch: "‘They only see what they wanna see’: Traumatised Ghosts and Ghost Story Conventions in The Sixth Sense and The Others" 71 // Clausdirk Pollner: "‘At the Hollow, there was Magic.’ The Language of Kim Newman’s Ghost Novel" 87 // Dominik Becher: "Neil Gaiman’s Ghost Children" 91 // Julia Kunz: "The Ghost as a Metaphor for Memory in the Irish Literary Psyche" 107 // Sophie Tiele: "'I Know not who these Mute Folk Are' – Ghostly Houses in Early Twentieth Century English and American Poetry" 115 // Johanna Grabow: "Haunting the Wide, White Page – Ghosts in Antarctica" 125 // Julia Pfeifer: "The Loa as Ghosts in Haitian Vodou" 137 // Minwen Huang: "From Cultural Ghosts to Literary Ghosts – Humanisation of Chinese Ghosts in Chinese Zhiguai" 147 // Vera Shamina: "Mystic Motifs in Silver Age Poetry and Prose" 161 //
dc.description.url	https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/18459
dc.format.extent	170
dc.identifier.doi	10.3726/978-3-653-05962-5
dc.identifier.isbn	9783631692516
dc.identifier.isbn	9783653059625
dc.identifier.isbn	9783631692523
dc.identifier.isbn	9783631665664
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/967
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publishedIn	Frankfurt am Main
dc.publisher	Peter Lang
dc.relation.ispartofseries	ALPH: Approaches to Literary Phantasy; 9
dc.rights	L::CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:800
dc.subject.field	americanstudies
dc.subject.field	englishstudies
dc.subject.field	britishstudies
dc.subject.field	literarystudies
dc.subject.field	medievalstudies
dc.subject.field	postcolonial
dc.title	Ghosts – or the (Nearly) Invisible: Spectral Phenomena in Literature and the Media
dc.type	anthology
dc.type.version	publishedVersion
dspace.entity.type	Publication