Famous Ghosts
Author | : Michael Teitelbaum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2006-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781592967292 |
Describes famous ghosts stories and leaves it up to the reader to decide if they are real or imagined.
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Author | : Michael Teitelbaum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2006-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781592967292 |
Describes famous ghosts stories and leaves it up to the reader to decide if they are real or imagined.
Author | : Rachel Wetzsteon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135922764 |
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.
Author | : Johnathan Sutherland |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1448860415 |
A ghost is an apparition of a person, now deceased, that manifests itself as a living being. But that is only part of the story, and other cultures have paranormal phenomena of their own which have been absorbed into their mythology stretching back through time. This book examines many of the classic cases of hauntings around the world. Not only does it discuss the ghostly tales of kings, queens, nobles, murderers and their victims, and the real story behind "The Exorcist," but it also reveals the ghostly phenomena connected with more modern celebrities, from James Dean to Elvis Presley. Also examined in detail are chilly apparitions of ghost animals, inanimate objects, and even haunted places from the classic haunted house to a possessed shopping mall.
Author | : Brian Haughton |
Publisher | : Red Wheel/Weiser |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008-08-14 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1601639600 |
Lore of the Ghost is an original and thought-provoking exploration of the numerous categories of ghosts and hauntings throughout the world. It discusses the possible motives for each type of haunting? from phantom white ladies and spectral black dogs to haunted highways and ghostly vehicles—what they represent, why they occur, and their possible functions.
Author | : Avery F. Gordon |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2008-02-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1452913862 |
“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.
Author | : Adam Selzer |
Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738736112 |
From Resurrection Mary and Al Capone to the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln, the spine-tingling sights and sounds of Chicago's yesteryear are still with us-- and so are its ghosts. Selzer pieces together the truth behind Chicago's ghosts, and brings to light dozens of never-before-told firsthand accounts. Take a historical tour of the famous and not-so-famous haunts around town. Sometimes the real story is far different from the urban legend ... and most of the time it's even gorier ...
Author | : D. T. Max |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2012-08-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101601116 |
The acclaimed New York Times–bestselling biography and “emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) In the first biography of the iconic David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max paints the portrait of a man, self-conscious, obsessive and struggling to find meaning. If Wallace was right when he declared he was “frightfully and thoroughly conventional,” it is only because over the course of his short life and stunning career, he wrestled intimately and relentlessly with the fundamental anxiety of being human. In his characteristic lucid and quick-witted style, Max untangles Wallace’s anxious sense of self, his volatile and sometimes abusive connection with women, and above all, his fraught relationship with fiction as he emerges with his masterpiece Infinite Jest. Written with the cooperation of Wallace’s family and friends and with access to hundreds of unpublished letters, manuscripts and journals, this captivating biography unveils the life of the profoundly complicated man who gave voice to what we thought we could not say.
Author | : Joan Axelrod-Contrada |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 2011-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1429665165 |
"Describes reports of encounters with the ghosts of several deceased entertainers and celebrities"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Paul Roland |
Publisher | : Arcturus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2018-10-26 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1789502896 |
Ghosts and spirits populate the world around us. We just need to be sensitive or psychic enough to hear and see them. In this book, author Paul Roland examines a fascinating assortment of recorded sightings from as far back in history as Roman times. This serious look at ghosts presents them not as chain-rattling spooks or clouds of cold, swirling mist, but as entities with which we share a greater reality. A comprehensive exploration of the realm of the supernatural, from ghost ships and poltergeists to out-of-body experiences and the idea of spirits as the manifestation of people still living, The Complete Book of Ghosts will challenge your beliefs and preconceptions as never before.
Author | : Mary Amato |
Publisher | : Carolrhoda Lab ® |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2018-09-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 154153073X |
When Lacy wakes up dead in Westminster Cemetery, final resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, she's confused. It's the job of Sam, a young soldier who died in 1865, to teach her the rules of the afterlife and to warn her about Suppression—a punishment worse than death. Lacy desperately wants to leave the cemetery and find out how she died, but every soul is obligated to perform a job. Given the task of providing entertainment, Lacy proposes an open mic, which becomes a chance for the cemetery's residents to express themselves. But Lacy is in for another shock when surprising and long-buried truths begin to emerge.