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

by Maria Fleischhack (Editor), Elmar Schenkel (Editor)

Overview

This collection of articles looks at ghost stories ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary movies from different perspectives, both interdisciplinary and international. Spectral phenomena from Antarctic literature to Haitian Voodoo, Russian poetry to Irish novels are discussed in relation to their places in history and the media.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631665664
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	07/22/2016
Series:	ALPH: Arbeiten zur Literarischen Phantastik / ALPH: Approaches to Literary Phantasy , #9
Edition description:	New
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Maria Fleischhack lectures at Leipzig University with a focus on Victorian and Postmodern fiction and Shakespearean drama; special interest: Sherlock Holmes.

Elmar Schenkel teaches English Literature at the University of Leipzig. He has published on Wells, Conrad and Tolkien and the relations between science and literature.

Table of Contents

Literary ghosts – Ghosts in different cultures – Interpretations of ghostly occurrences – Ghosts as metaphors – Ghostly places – Supernatural phenomena