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Ghosts - or the (Nearly) Invisible

Spectral Phenomena in Literature and the Media

Also known as Spectral phenomena in literature and the media

by Maria Fleischhack & Elmar Schenkel

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction
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Description

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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.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences, Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists, Occultism and esotericism, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Retained metadata contains “supernatural” in the subject metadata.

    • “supernatural”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    A contributing source assigned this topic during controlled cataloging, but the exact triggering term is not present in the merged metadata.

  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from doab, harvard, oapen, and sudoc matched “fantômes”, “ghosts”, and “ghosts hauntings”. Retained metadata contains “Ghosts” in the title, “ghost” in the description, “haunted” in the description, and 4 additional metadata match(es).

    • “ghosts hauntings”· via Directory of Open Access Books
    • “ghosts”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “ghosts”· via OAPEN Library
    • “fantômes”· via SUDOC — French university and research library union catalog
    • “Ghosts”· in title
    • “ghost”· in description
  • Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences

    Retained metadata contains “Future life” in the subject metadata.

    • “Future life”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Spectral Phenomena in Literature and the Media

Directory of Open Access Books edition

1 vol. (169 p.); 22 cm; Bibliogr. en fin d'article; ill., photogr.

2016-07-22Peter Lang Edition; Peter Lang International Academic PublishersEnglish
  • 9783631665664
  • 9783653059625
  • 3631665660
  • 3653059623
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doab:20.500.12854/33142
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