"Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Age of Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth-century. With a broad chronological scope that ranges from the end of the seventeenth century into the early nineteenth century, thi…
"9/11 Gothic explores ghostly presences in terrorism novels from New Yorkers Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Griffin Hansbury, and Patrick McGrath. Arguing how theories on trauma and Gothic combine to interpret ghosts, Danel Olson discusses what superna…
Biographical note: Stephan Feuchtwang, University of London.
China has many religions. But rituals of local temples are none of these. They celebrate many gods and their powers to respond. Gods are invited as welcome guests by appropriate rituals of welcome and communication. Other rituals pacify ghosts and harmful powers. These rituals a…
China has many religions. But rituals of local temples are none of these. They celebrate many gods and their powers to respond. Gods are invited as welcome guests by appropriate rituals of welcome and communication. Other rituals pacify ghosts and harmful powers. These rituals a…
From the publisher. From the beginning of civilization to the present day, and across all major religions and cultures, there have been documented cases of people seemingly overtaken by an unseen entity. The invading force -- whether good or bad -- appears to replace the possess…
Ghosts, spirits, and specters have played important roles in narratives throughout history and across nations and cultures. A watershed moment for this area of study was the publication of Derrida's Specters of Marx in 1993, marking the inauguration of a "spectral turn" in cultu…
"Ghosts, spirits, and specters have played important roles in narratives throughout history and across nations and cultures. A watershed moment for this area of study was the publication of Derrida's Specters of Marx in 1993, marking the inauguration of a "spectral turn" in cult…
"A collection of essays that explores the various roles ghosts have played in motion pictures, spanning a range of time periods, genres and nations"-
"A collection of essays that explores the various roles ghosts have played in motion pictures, spanning a range of time periods, genres and nations"-
