The Ghost Of Tradition

Author : Scott Brewster,Luke Thurston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317288930

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The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story by Scott Brewster,Luke Thurston Pdf

The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and theoretical perspectives. The main task of the volume is to properly situate the genre within historical and contemporary literary cultures across the globe, and to explore its significance within wider literary contexts as well as those of the supernatural. The Handbook offers the most significant contribution to this new critical field to date, assembling some of its leading scholars to examine the key contexts and issues required for understanding the emergence and development of the ghost story.

Author : Sean Ferrier-Watson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476664941

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The Children's Ghost Story in America by Sean Ferrier-Watson Pdf

Ghost stories have played a prominent role in childhood. Circulated around playgrounds and whispered in slumber parties, their history in American literature is little known and seldom discussed by scholars. This book explores the fascinating origins and development of these tales, focusing on the social and historical factors that shaped them and gave birth to the genre. Ghost stories have existed for centuries but have been published specifically for children for only about 200 years. Early on, supernatural ghost stories were rare--authors and publishers, fearing they might adversely affect young minds, presented stories in which the ghost was always revealed as a fraud. These tales dominated children's publishing in the 19th century but the 20th century saw a change in perspective and the supernatural ghost story flourished.

Author : S. Hay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230316836

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A History of the Modern British Ghost Story by S. Hay Pdf

Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.

Author : Gillian Bennett
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:39000006083765

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Traditions of Belief by Gillian Bennett Pdf

Author : Patrick Drazen
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781462029433

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A Gathering of Spirits: Japan's Ghost Story Tradition by Patrick Drazen Pdf

"Prepare for a sampling of Japanese ghosts and spirits, from sources that include the worlds oldest novel, the urban legends of contemporary Japanese schoolchildren, movies both classic and modern, anime, manga, and more." For hundreds of years Japan has lived in a reality consisting of the real world and the spirit world; sometimes the wall between the two worlds gets thin enough for spirits to cross over. In such a reality, ghost stories have been popular for centuries. Patrick Drazen, author of "Anime Explosion", looks at these stories: old and new, scary or funny or sad, looking at common themes and the reasons for their popularity. This book uses one Japanese ghost story tradition: the "hyaku monogatari" (hundred stories). In the old tradition, people tell each other one hundred ghost stories in one sitting. These hundred tales run from folklore to cartoons, but all are designed to send chills up the spine ...

Author : Lynette Carpenter,Wendy K. Kolmar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317943525

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Ghost Stories by British and American Women by Lynette Carpenter,Wendy K. Kolmar Pdf

Originally published in 1998 and covering a tradition ignored by most critics, this bibliography assembles and documents a large body of supernatural fiction written by women in English from the end of the 18th century to the present. These stories, the work of women whose literary reputations, personal histories, and bodies of work vary widely, challenge the narrow way in which supernatural literature has traditionally been regarded: they indicate a much richer and more complex set of literary responses to the supernatural than has been hitherto acknowledged. The writers included range from Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic novelists to Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Gilman, and Edith Wharton to such modern writers as Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, and A.S. Byatt. The volume will be of interest to literary and cultural historians and of particular importance to women's studies scholars.

Author : Aaron Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Conditional immortality
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1M6B

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Bible Vs. Tradition, in which the True Teaching of the Bible is Manifested, the Corruptions of Theologians Detected, and the Traditions of Men Exposed by Aaron Ellis Pdf

Author : Alfred Bendixen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118917480

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A Companion to the American Novel by Alfred Bendixen Pdf

Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day. Represents the most comprehensive single-volume introduction to this popular literary form currently available Features 37 contributions from a wide range of distinguished literary scholars Includes essays on topics and genres, historical overviews, and key individual works, including The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, Beloved, and many more.

Author : Patrick J. Murphy
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271079578

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Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Patrick J. Murphy Pdf

Montague Rhodes James authored some of the most highly regarded ghost stories of all time—classics such as “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” that have been adapted many times over for radio and television and have never gone out of print. But while James is best known as a fiction writer and storyteller, he was also a provost of King’s College, Cambridge, and Eton College, and a legendary and influential scholar whose pioneering work in the study of biblical texts and medieval manuscripts, art, and architecture is still relevant today. In Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Patrick J. Murphy argues that these twin careers are inextricably linked. James’s research not only informed his fiction but also reflected his anxieties about the nature of academic life and explored the delicate divide between professional, university men and erratic hobbyists or antiquaries. Murphy shows how detailed attention to the scholarly inspirations behind James’s fiction provides considerable insight into a formative moment in medieval studies, as well as into James’s methods as a master stylist of understated horror. During his life, James often claimed that his stories were mere entertainments—pleasing distractions from a life largely defined by academic discipline and restraint—and readers over the years have been content to take him at his word. This intriguing volume, however, convincingly proves otherwise.

Author : Alice Bertha Gomme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Children's songs
ISBN : UCAL:B4576054

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The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Alice Bertha Gomme Pdf

with tunes, singing rhymes and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom

Author : Andy Genereux
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1894765427

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Ghost Rock by Andy Genereux Pdf

Ghost Rockis a guide to sport and multi-pitch rock climbs in the Ghost River and Waiparous Creek areas west of Calgary. It gives detailed route descriptions, along with chapter by chapter parking access and approach details. By local standards, the Ghost has climbing on above average rock. Even with 200 new routes since the first edition it is still, however, woefully underdeveloped. Already a mecca for ice climbers, the Ghost is fast becoming one of the premier rockclimbing areas in Western Canada. It is a virtual candy store of new routes and will remain so for some time to come. Over 35 kilometres of steep cliff line, coupled with its remote and relatively wild nature, make for an unforgettable rock climbing experience.

Author : Sidney Oldall Addy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:39000005791038

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Household Tales with Other Traditional Remains by Sidney Oldall Addy Pdf

Author : Stephen Teo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415571463

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The Asian Cinema Experience by Stephen Teo Pdf

This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". It goes beyond existing work which provides a field survey of Asian cinema, probing more deeply into the field of Asian Cinema, arguing that Asian Cinema constitutes a separate pedagogical subject, and putting forward an alternative cinematic paradigm. The book covers "styles", including the works of classical Asian Cinema masters, and specific genres such as horror films, and Bollywood and Anime, two very popular modes of Asian Cinema; "spaces", including artistic use of space and perspective in Chinese cinema, geographic and personal space in Iranian cinema, the private "erotic space" of films from South Korea and Thailand, and the persistence of the family unit in the urban spaces of Asian big cities in many Asian films; and "concepts" such as Pan-Asianism, Orientalism, Nationalism and Third Cinema. The rise of Asian nations on the world stage has been coupled with a growing interest, both inside and outside Asia, of Asian culture, of which film is increasingly an indispensable component - this book provides a rich, insightful overview of what exactly constitutes Asian Cinema.

Author : Benjamin Thorpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z224320100

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Northern Mythology, Comprising the Principal Popular Traditions and Superstitions of Scandinavia, North Germany, and the Netherlands by Benjamin Thorpe Pdf

Author : Charis Cotter
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735263253

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The Ghost Road by Charis Cotter Pdf

Ghosts, a family curse, buried secrets -- and two girls who have to figure it all out. A new book from an acclaimed author, for fans of Coraline, Doll Bones and The Night Gardener. For the first time, Ruth is heading to Newfoundland to stay with family she's never met instead of spending the summer traveling with her dad. When she arrives, she finds life in the small community of Buckle very different from Toronto--everyone knows everyone else, and some of them believe in ghosts and The Sight and family curses. Ruth's cousin Ruby is also staying for the summer, and the two discover they have a lot in common: they both lost their moms when they were two years old, they're the same age and they even like the same food. But while Ruby believes in spirits and fairies, Ruth believes in science and cold, hard facts. When they find ominous information on some tombstones in the local cemetery, Ruth and Ruby start investigating their family's past and discover that twin girls are born in every generation, and every set of twins dies young, leaving their children without mothers. What's more, one of the twins always has The Sight and can see the Ghost Road that leads to the mysterious lost settlement of Slippers Cove. What happened there? What does it have to do with their family? And who is the ghostly presence that keeps visiting Ruth late at night? The answers lie somewhere along the Ghost Road . . . if they can only find it.