Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schenkel, Elmar
• Fleischhack, Maria
• Maria Fleischhack
• Elmar Schenkel

Titel

Ghosts - or the (Nearly) Invisible : Spectral Phenomena in Literature and the Media

Auflage

New edition.

Ort / Verlag

Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.