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Autore |
Goldman Marlene <1963-> |
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Titolo |
DisPossession [[electronic resource] ] : haunting in Canadian fiction / / Marlene Goldman |
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Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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0-7735-3950-6 |
1-283-58396-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (383 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ghosts in literature |
Spirit possession in literature |
Supernatural in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Part one The Haunted Nation: Explorer and Settler-Invader Amnesia and the Spectral Native -- 1 Coyote's Children and the Canadian Gothic: Sheila Watson's The Double Hook and Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning -- 2 Dispossession and the Rule of Primogeniture in John Steffler's The Afterlife of George Cartwright -- Part two Transnational Haunting: The Ghosts of the Diaspora -- 3 Jane Urquhart's Away : Magic Realism and the Ghosts of Celticism -- 4 'Cloth Flowers That Bleed': Haunting, Hysteria, and Diaspora in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace -- 5 'The spirits call she and make their display in she': The Trope of Possession in the Work of Dionne Brand -- Part three and Repair Ghosts and the Cycle of Reparation -- 6 Ghost Play: The Use of Transitional Phenomena in Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water -- Conclusion: Toward an Ethics of Haunting. |
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