Ghosts - or the (Nearly) Invisible | Buch

Cover: 9783631665664 | Ghosts - or the (Nearly) Invisible | Elmar Schenkel (u. a.) | Buch

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Beschreibung

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.

Über 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9783631665664
ISBN-10:	3631665660
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	266566
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Fleischhack, Maria Schenkel, Elmar
Redaktion:	Schenkel, Elmar Fleischhack, Maria
Auflage:	1. Auflage
Hersteller:	Peter Lang Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstr. 11, D-10178 Berlin, r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com
Maße:	216 x 153 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Elmar Schenkel (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.07.2016
Gewicht:	0,34 kg