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portada Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Western Culture
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.3 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm
Weight
0.36 kg.
ISBN13
9781474417372
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Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Western Culture

Catherine Belsey (Author) · Edinburgh University Press · Paperback

Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Western Culture - Belsey, Catherine

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Synopsis "Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Western Culture "

Considers the ways ghost stories appeal to our uneasy relationship with conventional good sense What do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Gothic writing and tales of the uncanny from the ancient past to the present - from Homer and the Icelandic sagas to Lincoln in the Bardo. Taking Shakespeare's Ghost in Hamlet as a turning point in the history of the genre, she uncovers the old stories the play relies on, as well as its influence on later writing. This ghostly trail is vividly charted through accredited records of apparitions and fiction by such writers as Ann Radcliffe, Washington Irving, Emily Brontë, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James and Susan Hill. In recent blockbusting movies, too, ghost stories bring us fragments of news from the unknown. Traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to the present day Describes the aspects of storytelling designed to involve readers Includes stories of attested apparitions, as well as fiction by a wide range of both canonical and popular authors

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