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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Ghost Stories"”.
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Fighting spirit: Victorian women's ghost stories
Abstract available: p. i-ii
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The Enlightening Supernatural: Ghost Stories in the Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
<p>This dissertation explores the place of ghosts in late eighteenth-century German texts, where they appear with surprising frequency despite widespread disbelief in their ontological reality. These ghosts could simply be lingering remnants of superstition in an age where they no longer belong, …
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"Anything Dead Coming Back to Life Hurts": Ghosts and Memory in Hamlet and Beloved
Ghost stories are an ingrained part of most cultures because, typically, humans must be forced to confront those elements of their individual and communal past that they would prefer to ignore. Accordingly, ghosts have embodied weaknesses and hidden evils that must be assimilated and transcended, …
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New media hauntings : digital aesthetics of haunting, context collapse, and networked spectrality
… to theorise depictions of new media hauntings. Ghost stories often include the latest technologies to establish the realistic setting, but technological advance also affords new opportunities to depict ghost stories. I argue that the early twenty-first-century technologies that are collectively …
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An Ethnography of Voodoo Tourism and Heritage Sites in New Orleans, Lousiana
… Current tourism relies on the city’s ghost stories, mythology, as well as Voodoo practices and lore, raising questions about the melding of fact and fiction in the potential perpetuation of sensational ideas about the city and its African heritage. Cultural sites discussed in this …
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Imprisoned and Empowered: The Women of Edith Wharton's Supernatural Fiction.
… Wharton’s writing style within the genre of the ghostly tale.</p> <p>The conclusions made within this study lead the reader of the tales to believe that Wharton expressed different feminist perspectives based on how she was developing as a person and as a writer.</p> <p>The resources and …
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Silencing and silenced women in Edith Wharton's non-ghost short stories.
… to Wharton's short fiction. Focusing on the ghost stories, feminist critics have begun to read Wharton's frequent themes of voiceless females as attempts to provide a voice for silenced women authors. Yet the fear of being silenced manifests itself throughout Wharton's writings, and I believe …
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Buried Alive: Gothic Oppression in the Novels of Edith Wharton'
… all of Wharton's fiction, ranging from her ghost stories to her more celebrated classics such as The House of Mirth, there is a Gothic strain; Wharton illustrates the grave consequences of normalizing discourses surrounding gender, class, and sexuality through her employment of Gothic …
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Culture, Conflict, and Northern English Fortification in the British Civil Wars, Circa 1638–1652
… traumatic fortification included the telling of ghost stories, the publication of articles of surrender and other details of prominent sieges, and the afterlife of fortresses long after the civil wars had ended.
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Heron: a novel
… including "Kwaidan", a collection of traditional ghost stories. Hearn's work was heralded as translating the East for the West, but also criticised for its idealised view of Japan. Hearn lived there for thirteen years, taught English at Tokyo Imperial University, married a woman from a noble …
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Nightmares from the Past: 'Kaiki eiga' and the Dawn of Japanese Horror Cinema
… movies based on classic Edo period (1603-1868) ghost stories, as well as imported pictures like Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931), were a mainstay of commercial genre cinema in Japan from the silent era through the 1960s, and wielded an influence on the so-called "J-horror" pictures that …
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HOME DEPO[R]T: [Un]Documented nostalgia and memories in Vietnamese/American diasporic stories at the center of [Re]Alienation
… 4). The Việt Nam War continues to produce untold ghost stories, or stories from Vietnamese refugees and war survivors who continue to live in the margins and elsewhere, obscured and stilled into ghastly silence as their stories remain untold and undocumented. In this dissertation, divided into …
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Weird History: Genre Mixing in Contemporary American Historical Fiction
… of this project look at how four popular genres, ghost stories, pulp fiction, alternate history, and science fiction, are mixed with historical fiction to interrogate ideas of American exceptionalism, racial progressivism, and the great man theory of history. Each of these genres provide …
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Depictions of space and place in contemporary ghost novels: Fostering the uncanny and reflecting social identities and relationships
… depictions of space and place in contemporary ghost novels, relating this to two of my own novels, The Toll House (2022) and Hear Him Calling (2024). In particular, I ask the following questions: How can depictions of space and place foster a sense of the uncanny in contemporary ghost novels? …
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Soviet Gothic-fantastic: a study of Gothic and supernatural themes in early Soviet literature
… Ognev’s novels and Aleksandra Kollontai’s stories. The Gothic obsession with dying, corpses and the afterlife re-emerges in fictions such as Daniil Kharms’ “Starukha” (whose hero is threatened by an animated corpse) and Nikolai Erdman’s banned play Samoubiitsa (the story of a failed …