"Alas, poor ghost!" : traditions of belief in story and discourse / / by Gillian Bennett |
Autore | Bennett Gillian |
Edizione | [Revised edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Logan, : Utah State University Press, c1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina |
398/.0941
398.0941 |
Soggetto topico |
Folklore - Great Britain
Occultism - Great Britain Ghosts - Great Britain Women - Great Britain |
ISBN |
0-87421-356-8
0-585-17525-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Belief and Disbelief --Is Belief in the Supernatural Declining? --Telling It Slant --Patterns of Belief --Order in Chaos --Family Love --Competing Cultures --Contact with the Dead --Life after Death --Ghosts and Hauntings --Visitations --Cause, Consequence, and Lack Liquidated --Delving --Witnesses, Bereavement, and the Sense of Presence / Kate Bennett --Witnesses --Bereavement --The Sense of Presence --From Private Experience to Public Performance Supernatural Experience as Narrative --Belief and Disbelief: Patterns of Narration --Story Dialectic: The Imaginary Judge and Jury --"Alas, Poor Ghost!" Case Studies in the History of Ghosts and Visitations --The Ghost of Hamlet's Father --The Cock Lane Poltergeist --The Clodd/Lang Debate --The Vanishing Hitchhiker --A Brief History of "Witnesses" --Collecting the Data --The Manchester Study --The Leicester Study --Transcribing Spoken Texts --The Manchester Respondents --Linguistic Clues to Belief and Disbelief --Word Lists Showing Story Patterns in Memorates -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910134709603321 |
Bennett Gillian | ||
Logan, : Utah State University Press, c1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The spoken word : oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850 / / edited by Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf |
Autore | Woolf Daniel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 398.0941 |
Collana | Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain |
Soggetto topico |
Oral tradition - Great Britain
Literature and folklore - Great Britain |
Soggetto non controllato |
culture
oral folklore linguistics Gaels Genealogy Literacy Oral tradition Scottish Gaelic Spoken word Welsh language |
ISBN |
1-5261-3787-9
1-280-73393-4 9786610733934 1-84779-059-3 1-4237-0631-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910146930303321 |
Woolf Daniel | ||
Manchester University Press, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The spoken word : oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850 / / edited by Adam Fox and Daniel Woolf |
Autore | Woolf Daniel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 398.0941 |
Collana | Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain |
Soggetto topico |
Oral tradition - Great Britain
Literature and folklore - Great Britain |
Soggetto non controllato |
culture
oral folklore linguistics Gaels Genealogy Literacy Oral tradition Scottish Gaelic Spoken word Welsh language |
ISBN |
1-5261-3787-9
1-280-73393-4 9786610733934 1-84779-059-3 1-4237-0631-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996210563103316 |
Woolf Daniel | ||
Manchester University Press, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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