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Ghostly Parallels

Author : Randolph Runyon
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572334656
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Ghostly Parallels written by Randolph Runyon and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's most eminent man of letters in his later years, and certainly one of the greatest Southern writers, Robert Penn Warren has increasingly come to be known for his poetry. Ghostly Parallels is a close examination of the heart of his poetic corpus-the eight collections published between 1935 and 1976: Thirty-Six Poems; Eleven Poems on the Same Theme; Promises; You, Emperors, and Others; Tale of Time; Incarnations; Or Else; and Can I See Arcturus from Where I Stand? Ghostly Parallels shows how Warren constructed collections of poems based on common subjects and contexts and also contends that, while the poems are distinctive, taken together they reveal intricate patterns of theme, imagery, and diction within explicit sequences. Runyon demonstrates that Warren's collections are integrated, well-crafted wholes, and each poem references its predecessor-sometimes in intriguingly self-referential ways. Runyon shows that despite the many changes in diction, tone, and subject that Warren underwent in his long career, his concern for writing his poems in such a way that they could reach out beyond themselves to other poems remained remarkably constant. In the arrangement Warren gave them, his poems form “ghostly parallels”-an expression that appears in “The Return: An Elegy,” where they refer to the railroad tracks that bring the poet home to his dying mother. This return to the mother is a persistent leitmotif in the poems and forms the other major theme of this study: Warren's personal poetic myth, in which such images as golden light and mirror images are signs of the mother's presence as both Danae, mother of Perseus, and Medusa, whom Perseus confronted. Through pursuing sequential patterns as well as echoes and myth, GhostlyParallels brings a wealth of insights to the work of this prolific novelist, critic, and essayist. An important guide for undergraduate and graduate students alike, Ghostly Parallels will also appeal to anyone with an interest in Robert Penn Warren and southern literature.

Virtual Americas

Author : Paul Giles
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822384043
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Americas written by Paul Giles and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of well-known literary figures by defamiliarizing it—placing it in unfamiliar contexts. Paul Giles looks at a number of canonical nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers by focusing on their interactions with British culture. He demonstrates how American authors from Herman Melville to Thomas Pynchon have been compulsively drawn to negotiate with British culture so that their nationalist agendas have emerged, paradoxically, through transatlantic dialogues. Virtual Americas ultimately suggests that conceptions of national identity in both the United States and Britain have emerged through engagement with—and, often, deliberate exclusion of—ideas and imagery emanating from across the Atlantic. Throughout Virtual Americas Giles focuses on specific examples of transatlantic cultural interactions such as Frederick Douglass’s experiences and reputation in England; Herman Melville’s satirizing fictions of U.S. and British nationalism; and Vladimir Nabokov’s critique of European high culture and American popular culture in Lolita. He also reverses his perspective, looking at the representation of San Francisco in the work of British-born poet Thom Gunn and Sylvia Plath’s poetic responses to England. Giles develops his theory about the need to defamiliarize the study of American literature by considering the cultural legacy of Surrealism as an alternative genealogy for American Studies and by examining the transatlantic dimensions of writers such as Henry James and Robert Frost in the context of Surrealism.

Ghostly Demarcations

Author : Michael Sprinker
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859842089
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Ghostly Demarcations written by Michael Sprinker and published by Verso. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features sympathetic meditations on the relationship between Marxism and deconstruction by Jameson, Hamacher, Negri and Montag amongst others.

Joyce's Ghosts

Author : Luke Gibbons
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022652695X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Joyce's Ghosts written by Luke Gibbons and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, James Joyce’s modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europe’s urban centers has led critics to see him almost exclusively as a cosmopolitan figure. In Joyce’s Ghosts, Luke Gibbons mounts a powerful argument that this view is mistaken: Joyce’s Irishness is intrinsic to his modernism, informing his most distinctive literary experiments. Ireland, Gibbons shows, is not just a source of subject matter or content for Joyce, but of form itself. Joyce’s stylistic innovations can be traced at least as much to the tragedies of Irish history as to the shock of European modernity, as he explores the incomplete project of inner life under colonialism. Joyce’s language, Gibbons reveals, is haunted by ghosts, less concerned with the stream of consciousness than with a vernacular interior dialogue, the “shout in the street,” that gives room to outside voices and shadowy presences, the disruptions of a late colonial culture in crisis. Showing us how memory under modernism breaks free of the nightmare of history, and how in doing so it gives birth to new forms, Gibbons forces us to think anew about Joyce’s achievement and its foundations.

Ghosts, Metaphor, and History in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel GarcIa MArquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

Author : D. Erickson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230619754
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts, Metaphor, and History in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel GarcIa MArquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude written by D. Erickson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the complex relations between the figure of the ghost, the textual figure of metaphor and history, in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Two Hundred Years of Pushkin

Author : Joe Andrew
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042009585
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Two Hundred Years of Pushkin written by Joe Andrew and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushkin's status as Russia's national poet rests as much on the breadth of his cultural influence as on the intrinsic quality of his works. Pushkin's Legacy reflects in various ways the areas in which this influence has been felt. Part I considers some of the key factors in defining Pushkin for posterity, in particular the crucial role played by the critic Belinskii and the problematics of periodising Pushkin. Part II examines the richness of Pushkin's poetics, including the ways in which his work challenged the established boundaries between poetry and prose. Part III examines Russian music's debt to Pushkin and vice versa: Russian music's role in popularising his works. Part IV examines Pushkin's influence abroad via studies of his influence on Mérimée and Henry James and, on a more personal level, through his descendants in England. Pushkin's Legacy offers a variety of approaches to Pushkin and his oeuvre and to the nature of his complex impact on Russian and European culture. Pushkin's Legacy is the third volume devoted to Pushkin to be published in the SSLP series, under the general title Two Hundred Years of Pushkin. It follows volume I, Pushkin's Secret: Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin, and volume II, Alexander Pushkin: Myth and Monument.

Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism

Author : Luke Thurston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415509661
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism written by Luke Thurston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era. Linking little-studied authors like M. R. James and May Sinclair to such canonical figures as Dickens, Henry James, Woolf, and Joyce, Thurston argues that the literary ghost should be seen as no mere relic of gothic style but as a portal of discovery, an opening onto the central modernist problem of how to write 'life itself.' Ghost stories are split between an ironic, often parodic reference to Gothic style and an evocation of 'life itself, ' an implicit repudiation of all literary style. Reading the ghost story as both a guest and a host story, this book traces the ghost as a disruptive figure in the 'hospitable' space of narrative from Maturin, Poe and Dickens to the fin de siècle, and then on into the twentieth century.

God, Ghosts & Christians

Author : Carla Cole
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496900952
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book God, Ghosts & Christians written by Carla Cole and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people talk about or experience paranormal activity, ghosts are often a component--and enough of a component to be worth investigating and discussing. the popular theory about ghosts is that they are spirits of humans who have died, but this isn't consistent with teachings from the Bible. So, as Christians, we ask "Who and what are they?" to answer this, God, Ghosts & Christians looks briefly at various current theories, followed by an extensive look at ghosts from a Christian point of view, supported by biblical passages and personal experiences of the author and others. the author, an ordained minister, will take you through all aspects of the existence of ghosts in our world--from the ones that are demons to those that are well meaning and kind. Don't be fooled by media and nonbelievers--there is a quiet, but serious, war going on between Christians and ghosts. This book will affirm your beliefs, show you how to protect yourself and those you love and encourage you to help quiet the "whispers," and win the war.

Ghosts and Skeletons

Author : Erin E. MacDonald
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476622353
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts and Skeletons written by Erin E. MacDonald and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines Ian Rankin's use of the gothic convention of the ghost in Black and Blue, Dead Souls, Set in Darkness, and "The Very Last Drop." In these works, ghosts and skeletons are used as metaphors for Detective Inspector John Rebus's guilt over past mistakes and for the dark past of his home city, Edinburgh. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 30, Issue 2.

Ghostly Landscapes

Author : Patricia M. Keller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442618949
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Ghostly Landscapes written by Patricia M. Keller and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ghostly Landscapes, Patricia M. Keller analyses the aesthetics of haunting and the relationship between ideology and image production by revisiting twentieth-century Spanish history through the camera’s lens. Through its vision she demonstrates how the traumatic losses of the Spanish Civil War and their systematic denial and burial during the fascist dictatorship have constituted fertile territory for the expressions of loss, uncanny return, and untimeliness that characterize the aesthetic presence of the ghost. Examining fascist documentary newsreels, countercultural art films from the Spanish New Wave, and conceptual landscape photographs created since the transition to democracy, Keller reveals how haunting serves to mourn loss, redefine space and history, and confirm the significance of lives and stories previously hidden or erased. Her richly illustrated book constitutes a significant reevaluation of fascist and post-fascist Spanish visual culture and a unique theorization of haunting as an aesthetic register inextricably connected to the visual and the landscape.

Ghosts of the New City

Author : Andrew Alan Johnson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824847822
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of the New City written by Andrew Alan Johnson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiang Mai (literally, “new city”) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In Ghosts of the New City, Andrew Alan Johnson shows how the trauma of the crash, brought back vividly by the political crisis of 2006, haunts efforts to remake the city. For many Chiang Mai residents, new developments harbor the seeds of the crash, which manifest themselves in anxious stories of ghosts and criminals who conceal themselves behind the city’s progressive veneer. Hopes for rebirth and fears of decline have their roots in Thai conceptions of progress, which draw from Buddhist and animist ideas of power and sacrality. Cities, Johnson argues, were centers where the charismatic power of kings and animist spirits were grounded; these entities assured progress by imbuing the space with sacred power that would avert disaster. Johnson traces such magico-religious conceptions of potency and space from historical records through present-day popular religious practice and draws parallels between these and secular attempts at urban revitalization. Through a detailed ethnography of the contested ways in which academics, urban activists, spirit mediums, and architects seek to revitalize the flagging economy and infrastructure of Chiang Mai, Johnson finds that alongside the hope for progress there exists a discourse about urban ghosts, deadly construction sites, and the lurking anxiety of another possible crash, a discourse that calls into question history’s upward trajectory. In this way, Ghosts of the New City draws new connections between urban history and popular religion that have implications far beyond Southeast Asia.

Chloe And Her Ghostly Mentor

Author : Ligios Henri
Publisher : Ligios Henri
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chloe And Her Ghostly Mentor written by Ligios Henri and published by Ligios Henri. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chloe had always been drawn to the mysterious. As a curious and imaginative young girl, she often found herself exploring hidden corners and searching for the extraordinary. Little did she know that her attic held a secret waiting to be discovered. It was a gloomy, rainy day when Chloe stumbled upon her supernatural surprise.

Ghosts

Author : R. C. Finucane
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615925910
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts written by R. C. Finucane and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, people have reported seeing ghosts. But a Victorian ghost is in many respects a very different phenomenon from a ghost in Classical Greece, or in medieval Europe. Finucane surveys reports of ghosts from ancient Greece, the early Christian era, the Reformation, the Victorian age, and through the twentieth century. He asks such questions as: How have the physical aspects claimed for ghosts varied from age to age? What differences are there in the functions and intentions ascribed to ghosts? How have the changes in more general beliefsin religion and science, in particularinfluenced the perception of ghosts? Drawing on primary sources from all periods and cultures, Finucane addresses this topic in its full breadth.R.C. Finucane (Rochester, MI) is chairperson of the Department of History at Oakland University.. . . highly recommended. Magonia (UK). . . a useful book for those readers interested in the history of the supernatural . . . Extrapolation

The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts

Author : Tak-hung Leo Chan
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622017498
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts written by Tak-hung Leo Chan and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Francis Bacon, Poet, Prophet, Philosopher, Versus Phantom Captain Shakespeare, the Rosicrucian Mask

Author : William Francis C. Wigston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Francis Bacon, Poet, Prophet, Philosopher, Versus Phantom Captain Shakespeare, the Rosicrucian Mask written by William Francis C. Wigston and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Popular Ghosts

Author : Esther Peeren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441109137
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Popular Ghosts written by Esther Peeren and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunting has long been a compelling element in popular culture, and has become an influential category in academic engagements with politics, economics, and aesthetics. While recent scholarship has used psychoanalysis and the Gothic as frameworks with which to study haunting, this volume seeks to situate ghosts in the cultural imagination. The chapters in Popular Ghosts are united by the impulse to theorize the cultural work that ghosts do within the trans-historical contexts that comprise our understanding of everyday life. These authors study the theoretical and aesthetic genealogies of the spectral, while also commenting on the multiple everyday spaces that this category occupies. Rather than looking to a single tradition or medium, the essays in Popular Ghosts explore film, novels, photography, television, music, social practices, and political structures from different cultures to reopen the questions that surround our haunted sense of the everyday.

Ghosts of Gettysburg

Author : Dave Oester
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595446841
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Gettysburg written by Dave Oester and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts of Gettysburg: Walking on Hallowed Ground is a keep-you-up-all-night book from real life master ghost hunters, Drs. Dave and Sharon Oester, cofounders of the International Ghost Hunters Society, the largest ghost research society on the Internet. Drs. Dave and Sharon Oester spend their time traveling the back roads of America, investigating some of its most haunted places. Over a six-year period, they explored and recorded the amazing ghostly experiences of visitors to the Gettysburg battlefield. One year they devoted a full month for battlefield investigations and drove over 1,000 miles on the battlefield gathering data for this book. Drs. Dave and Sharon Oester were the first to hold ghost conferences in Gettysburg teaching about ghost photography and electronic voice phenomena known as EVP. Their annual ghost conferences started the ghost hunting movement in Gettysburg. Drs. Dave and Sharon Oester share 40 haunted sites on the battlefield, not according to folklore, but from their own personal investigations using scientific tools to validate the existence of ghosts. Each haunted site contains a short history of its part in this three-day battle. Read about the ten most haunted Civil War hospitals sites that can be visited by the reader.