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Bulwer-Lytton and the Supernatural
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Supernatural Visitation in Medieval Literature
Supernatural Visitation, broadly defined as the narratively bounded appearance of an otherworldly personage (or Visitant) to a human recipient (or Visited), represents a highly widespread and cross-generic literary motif throughout the Late Middle Ages. Although previous studies have considered the …
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Cosmic microwave background predictions of supernatural inflation
… anisotropy spectrum of the CMB under the supernatural inflation model class [17] and compares these predictions against the Boomerang 98 data [5], using the Lange et. al [11] cosmological parameter estimations for an [Omega]tot = 1 universe. This was implemented by creating a modified …
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Shakespeare’s Cosmology on the Supernatural: All Is Illusion
… how Shakespeare approached elements of the supernatural – ghosts, madness, and witchcraft – in his plays. The aftermath of the England’s break from the Catholic Church led to societal upheaval in the way early modern England viewed the supernatural. Prior to this break, Europeans interpreted …
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The Longest Road: Tales of the Mysterious and Supernatural
Speculative fiction.
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Is Religion "Just" Supernatural Agency, Social Support, or Meaning?
… predictive power. Exposure to a religious supernatural agent reduced cheating more than exposure to a nonreligious supernatural agent (Study 1), receiving religious social support during a stressful task reduced cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) more than receiving nonreligious social support …
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Imprisoned and Empowered: The Women of Edith Wharton's Supernatural Fiction.
… and state of women as represented in selected supernatural fiction by Edith Wharton, we explore the socio-gender relationships, as well as the gender roles of women in general as they existed in the early part of the twentieth century. These associations are discussed, as is the influence Henry …
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Fantastic facts : the supernatural in the ethnographic writings of Giraldus Cambrensis.
… thesis seeks to answer the question of what role supernatural themes and motifs played in allowing us a glimpse into Gerald of Wales’ sense of dualist identity. He is revered by many modern Welsh scholars as an early Welsh nationalist, even though Gerald did not always see himself that way, yet …
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Narrative Theory and Fort Berthold's Stories of the Paranormal or Supernatural
… author collected stories of the paranormal and supernatural from 10 enrolled members of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold, North Dakota. The research participants were members of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes. Five research questions guided the study: (1) Where did these …
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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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(In)articulating the specter: queer communicative resistance in the hysterical supernatural
… in a discursive space called the hysterical supernatural. This new terminology – an alternative to the one-dimensionality of conventional medical models – looks toward the crucial intersection of queer theory, antiracist feminisms, disability studies, and trauma studies. The construction of …
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Divine and supernatural power in Old English and Old Saxon literature.
… in opposition to familiar Germanic natural and supernatural forces. In contrast, Old English writings, composed against the backdrop of a missionary conversion, allowed power to shift between the divine and the nefarious in order to illustrate theological ideas. By considering the ways these …
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