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Book Synopsis The National Uncanny by : Rene L. Bergland
Download or read book The National Uncanny written by Rene L. Bergland and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although spectral Indians appear with startling frequency in US literary works, until now the implications of describing them as ghosts have not been thoroughly investigated. In the first years of nationhood, Philip Freneau and Sarah Wentworth Morton peopled their works with Indian phantoms, as did Charles Brocken Brown, Washington Irving, Samuel Woodworth, Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, William Apess, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others who followed. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Native American ghosts figured prominently in speeches attributed to Chief Seattle, Black Elk, and Kicking Bear. Today, Stephen King and Leslie Marmon Silko plot best-selling novels around ghostly Indians and haunted Indian burial grounds. Rene L. Bergland argues that representing Indians as ghosts internalizes them as ghostly figures within the white imagination. Spectralization allows white Americans to construct a concept of American nationhood haunted by Native Americans, in which Indians become sharers in an idealized national imagination. However, the problems of spectralization are clear, since the discourse questions the very nationalism it constructs. Indians who are transformed into ghosts cannot be buried or evaded, and the specter of their forced disappearance haunts the American imagination. Indian ghosts personify national guilt and horror, as well as national pride and pleasure. Bergland tells the story of a terrifying and triumphant American aesthetic that repeatedly transforms horror into glory, national dishonor into national pride.
Book Synopsis Ghostly Matters by : Avery F. Gordon
Download or read book Ghostly Matters written by Avery F. Gordon and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2008-02-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Avery Gordon’s stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. ” —George Lipsitz “The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny.” —American Studies International “Ghostly Matters immediately establishes Avery Gordon as a leader among her generation of social and cultural theorists in all fields. The sheer beauty of her language enhances an intellectual brilliance so daunting that some readers will mark the day they first read this book. One must go back many more years than most of us can remember to find a more important book.” —Charles Lemert Drawing on a range of sources, including the fiction of Toni Morrison and Luisa Valenzuela (He Who Searches), Avery Gordon demonstrates that past or haunting social forces control present life in different and more complicated ways than most social analysts presume. Written with a power to match its subject, Ghostly Matters has advanced the way we look at the complex intersections of race, gender, and class as they traverse our lives in sharp relief and shadowy manifestations. Avery F. Gordon is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Janice Radway is professor of literature at Duke University.
Book Synopsis Ghostly Evidence by : Kelly Milner Halls
Download or read book Ghostly Evidence written by Kelly Milner Halls and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's late at night, and you're on a tour of a so-called haunted house. You see something out of the corner of your eye and quickly snap a photo. Your hands tremble as you lower the camera. Your eyes widen as you stare at the image you've just captured. A face seems to be lurking in the background. But when you look up, there?s no one standing there! Was it a ghost? Ghost sightings are reported all the time. Many are easily explained. Others are harder to dismiss. But is there any proof? To find out, Kelly Milner Halls explored haunted houses. She examined photographs and investigated eyewitness accounts from ghost hunters, mediums, and paranormal experts. What's the verdict? Are the spirits of the dead wandering among us? Explore her findings and decide for yourself.
Book Synopsis Ghosts of Futures Past by : Molly McGarry
Download or read book Ghosts of Futures Past written by Molly McGarry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Page opposite title page.
Book Synopsis Popular Ghosts by : Maria del Pilar Blanco
Download or read book Popular Ghosts written by Maria del Pilar Blanco and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the ambivalent realm between life and death, ghosts have always inspired cultural fascination as well as theoretical consideration.
Book Synopsis Ghostly Subjects by : Maria Takolander
Download or read book Ghostly Subjects written by Maria Takolander and published by Salt Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ghostly Subjects, Maria Takolander applies her unique and unflinching gaze to the earth, relationships, the body and art, revealing the exquisite strangeness that marks the world as fair game for poetry. Her topics range from the Madrid train bombings to sex dolls, from domestic violence to poetry readings, and from love games to cosmetics. The collection also features two significant sequences: ‘Alien Signals,’ inspired by the films of Stanley Kubrick; and ‘Lessons Learned from Literature,’ inspired by the literature and lives of Mary Shelley, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges and Sylvia Plath. The poems in Ghostly Subjects can be violently intimate, but they are also often, as these two sequences show, ironically aware of the narcissistic play of representation. Indeed, narcissism is explicitly acknowledged in the title of another sequence reflecting on the hidden history and banal peculiarities of the human form. The world portrayed in this striking collection is intensely uncanny, and it is rendered with a distinctive precision of language and vision. In Ghostly Subjects, its poems so often haunted by mirrors, Maria Takolander has reached through the surface of the glass, clawing up through the dripping silver the otherness of the self, its situations and its illusions.
Book Synopsis Real Ghost Stories by : William Thomas Stead
Download or read book Real Ghost Stories written by William Thomas Stead and published by London : G. Richards. This book was released on 1897 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Case for Ghosts by : J. Allan Danelek
Download or read book The Case for Ghosts written by J. Allan Danelek and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are ghosts? Can anyone become one? How do they interact with time and space? Stripping away the sensationalism and fraud linked to this contentious topic, J. Allan Danelek presents a well-researched study of a phenomenon that has fascinated mankind for centuries. Analyzing theories that support and debunk these supernatural events, Danelek objectively explores hauntings, the ghost psyche, spirit communication, and spirit guides. He also investigates spirit photography, EVP, ghost-hunting tools, ouija boards, and the darker side of the ghost equation-malevolent spirits and demon possession. Whether you're a ghost enthusiast or a skeptic, The Case for Ghosts promises amazing insights into the spirit realm.
Download or read book Ghosts written by Seymour Simon and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether or not you believe in ghosts, you'll be spellbound by these nine supposedly true tales from the spirit world. Captivating creatures include the Horror of Berkeley Square, a demon that literally scares people to death, and White House specters of former presidents and first ladies. Suitable for readers of all ages. Narrated by Anthony Call (Star Trek, The Twilight Zone).
Download or read book Ghost Hunter written by Hans Holzer and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1963, this is a collection of true, authenticated accounts of experiences with “living” ghosts, written and compiled by the nationally recognized authority on psychic phenomena, Hans Holzer. This is a fascinating, astounding collection of the weird and inexplicable, including reports on: —The after-death messages from murdered financier Serge Rubinstein —The Bank Street ghost, discovered by a New York Times reporter —The falling mural of Artist John La Farge —The rendezvous with Houdini Fully documented reports of events guaranteed to confound the believer and non-believer alike...Occurrences in the realm of psychic phenomena that defy the laws of nature! UNBELIEVABLE YET TRUE... “True stories of ghosts and poltergeists...not the figment of the author’s imagination.”—Nashville Banner “Unusual reading.”—Camden Courier-Post “If your interest has come to the advanced stage of scientific investigation of the occult, this book is your meat.”—Sacramento Union “Fascinating reading...”—The Hollywood Reporter “Enthralling...guaranteed to amuse, amaze, baffle and entertain.”—Appleton Post Crescent “Packed with spine-tingling stories.”—San Francisco Call Bulletin
Book Synopsis Earthbound by : Robert H. Coddington
Download or read book Earthbound written by Robert H. Coddington and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coddington, a leading expert on the paranormal, and his psychic wife, Marianne, know first hand about ghosts. It was during a "ghost hunt" on a Virginia farm that Marianne's body became possessed by the lost spirit of a young girl. Journey to the other side to meet the Coddington's ghostly subjects in their own words, through channeling transcripts. of photos.
Book Synopsis Ghostly Demarcations by : Michael Sprinker
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: With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided a provocative re-reading of the classics in the Western tradition and posed a series of challenges to Marxism. In a timely intervention in one of today's most vital theoretical debates, the contributors to Ghostly Demarcations respond to the distinctive program projected by Specters of Marx. The volume features sympathetic meditations on the relationship between Marxism and deconstruction by Fredric Jameson, Werner Hamacher, Antonio Negri, Warren Montag, and Rastko Möcnik, brief polemical reviews by Terry Eagleton and Pierre Macherey, and sustained political critiques by Tom Lewis and Aijaz Ahmad. The volume concludes with Derrida's reply to his critics in which he sharpens his views about the vexed relationship between Marxism and deconstruction.
Book Synopsis Ghosts and Grisly Things by : Ramsey Campbell
Download or read book Ghosts and Grisly Things written by Ramsey Campbell and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and an eight-time winner of the British Fantasy Award, Campbell may be the genres most decorated writer. Publishers Weekly hails him as a master of the horror genre, adding, He does more than jar the nerves and chill the spine; he assails ones very grip on reality. Ghosts and Grisly Things is a chilling collection of the best of Campbells recent short fiction, most of it never before available in any form. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis Real-Life Ghost Encounters by : Jeff Belanger
Download or read book Real-Life Ghost Encounters written by Jeff Belanger and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People love to share their personal encounters with ghosts and other spooky subjects. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of stories of ghost encounters on the Internet. This volume delves deep into some of the most famous stories of all time (and some lesser known tales) to get the scoop on what really happened. The interview format makes for a unique reading experience and allows those telling the stories to be heard in their own words.
Download or read book Ghosts written by Alice Rayner and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making spirits visible has been a part of the theatrical experience since at least the sixteenth century. Instead of illusions, however, ghostly doubles in theatre are materially real and pervasive. In Ghosts, Alice Rayner examines theatre as a memorial practice that is haunted by the presence of loss, looking at how aspects of stagecraft turn familiar elements into something uncanny. Citing examples from the works of Shakespeare, Beckett, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as the films Vertigo, Gaslight, and The Sixth Sense, she begins by describing time as it is employed by theatre with multiple aspects of presence, duration, and passage. Suggesting that objects connect past to present through the sense of touch, she explores how props are suspended backstage between motion and meaning. Her final chapters consider the curtain as theatre’s means for attempting to divide real and imaginary worlds. If ghosts hover where secrets—secrets of the past, secrets from oneself, secrets of life and death—are kept, then, according to Rayner, “theatre is where ghosts best make their appearances and let communities and individuals know that we live amid secrets hiding in plain sight.” Alice Rayner is associate professor of drama at Stanford University and author of, most recently, To Act, To Do, To Perform: Drama and the Phenomenology of Action.
Download or read book Every where ... written by Will Carleton and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Influential Ghosts by : Rachel Wetzsteon
Download or read book Influential Ghosts written by Rachel Wetzsteon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influential Ghosts: A Study of Auden's Sources explores some of the most important literary and philosophical influences on W.H. Auden's poetry. The study attempts to show that Auden's poetry derives much of its interest from the vast range of authors on whom he drew for inspiration. But it also suggest that his relationship to these writers was marked by a fascinating ambivalence. In chapters on Auden's relationship to Hardy and Kierkegaard, the study shows how, after lovingly apprenticing himself to their work and often borrowing stylistic or thematic features from it - Hardy's sweeping "hawk's vision," Kierkegaard's urgent "leap of faith" - he began to criticize the very things he had previously striven to emulate. In a chapter on Auden's elegies, the author argues that, alone among examples of this poetic genre, they both reverently mourn and harshly scrutinize their subjects (Yeats, Freud, Henry James and others). In a chapter on "structural allusion" in Auden's early poetry, the study posits that Auden singlehandedly invented a new kind of allusion in which he alludes to the form and subject matter of entire poems. But while doing so, he also finds fault with the attitudes (passivity, despair) depicted in them. In these structurally allusive poems - as with his relationship to Hardy, Kierkegaard and his elegies' subjects - Auden's sometimes accepting, sometimes skeptical attitude toward his poetic models is on powerful display, and finds a perfect counterpart in the tension between imitative form and critical content.
