DisPossession [[electronic resource] ] : haunting in Canadian fiction / / Marlene Goldman |
Autore | Goldman Marlene <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.540937 |
Soggetto topico |
Ghosts in literature
Spirit possession in literature Supernatural in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-7735-3950-6
1-283-58396-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462159803321 |
Goldman Marlene <1963-> | ||
Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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DisPossession [[electronic resource] ] : haunting in Canadian fiction / / Marlene Goldman |
Autore | Goldman Marlene <1963-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.540937 |
Soggetto topico |
Ghosts in literature
Spirit possession in literature Supernatural in literature |
ISBN |
0-7735-3950-6
1-283-58396-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785509503321 |
Goldman Marlene <1963-> | ||
Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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DisPossession : haunting in Canadian fiction / / Marlene Goldman |
Autore | Goldman Marlene <1963-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.540937 |
Soggetto topico |
Ghosts in literature
Spirit possession in literature Supernatural in literature |
ISBN |
0-7735-3950-6
1-283-58396-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826471803321 |
Goldman Marlene <1963-> | ||
Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The self possessed [[electronic resource] ] : deity and spirit possession in South Asian literature and civilization / / Frederick M. Smith |
Autore | Smith Frederick M |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (732 p.) |
Disciplina | 133.4/260954 |
Soggetto topico |
Spirit possession - South Asia
Spirit possession in literature Sanskrit literature - History and criticism Tantrism - South Asia Spirit possession - Hinduism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-00893-9
9786613008930 0-231-51065-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Orthodoxies, Madness, and Method -- 1. Academic and Brahmanical Orthodoxies -- Part II. Ethnography, Modernity, and the Languages of Possession -- 2. New and Inherited Paradigms -- 3. Possession, Trance Channeling, and Modernity -- 4. Notes on Regional Languages and Models of Possession -- Part III. Classical Literature -- 5. The Vedas and Upaniṣads -- 6. Friendly Acquisitions, Hostile Takeovers -- 7. Enlightenment and the Classical Culture of Possession -- 8. Vampires, Prostitutes, and Poets -- 9. Devotion as Possession -- Part IV. Worldly and Otherworldly Ruptures -- 10. Possession in Tantra -- 11. Tantra and the Diaspora of Childhood Possession -- 12. The Medicalization of Possession in Āyurveda and Tantra -- 13. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451695403321 |
Smith Frederick M | ||
New York, : Columbia University Press, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The self possessed [[electronic resource] ] : deity and spirit possession in South Asian literature and civilization / / Frederick M. Smith |
Autore | Smith Frederick M |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (732 p.) |
Disciplina | 133.4/260954 |
Soggetto topico |
Spirit possession - South Asia
Spirit possession in literature Sanskrit literature - History and criticism Tantrism - South Asia Spirit possession - Hinduism |
ISBN |
1-283-00893-9
9786613008930 0-231-51065-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Orthodoxies, Madness, and Method -- 1. Academic and Brahmanical Orthodoxies -- Part II. Ethnography, Modernity, and the Languages of Possession -- 2. New and Inherited Paradigms -- 3. Possession, Trance Channeling, and Modernity -- 4. Notes on Regional Languages and Models of Possession -- Part III. Classical Literature -- 5. The Vedas and Upaniṣads -- 6. Friendly Acquisitions, Hostile Takeovers -- 7. Enlightenment and the Classical Culture of Possession -- 8. Vampires, Prostitutes, and Poets -- 9. Devotion as Possession -- Part IV. Worldly and Otherworldly Ruptures -- 10. Possession in Tantra -- 11. Tantra and the Diaspora of Childhood Possession -- 12. The Medicalization of Possession in Āyurveda and Tantra -- 13. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777401503321 |
Smith Frederick M | ||
New York, : Columbia University Press, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The self possessed : deity and spirit possession in South Asian literature and civilization / / Frederick M. Smith |
Autore | Smith Frederick M |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (732 p.) |
Disciplina | 133.4/260954 |
Soggetto topico |
Spirit possession - South Asia
Spirit possession in literature Sanskrit literature - History and criticism Tantrism - South Asia Spirit possession - Hinduism |
ISBN |
1-283-00893-9
9786613008930 0-231-51065-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Orthodoxies, Madness, and Method -- 1. Academic and Brahmanical Orthodoxies -- Part II. Ethnography, Modernity, and the Languages of Possession -- 2. New and Inherited Paradigms -- 3. Possession, Trance Channeling, and Modernity -- 4. Notes on Regional Languages and Models of Possession -- Part III. Classical Literature -- 5. The Vedas and Upaniṣads -- 6. Friendly Acquisitions, Hostile Takeovers -- 7. Enlightenment and the Classical Culture of Possession -- 8. Vampires, Prostitutes, and Poets -- 9. Devotion as Possession -- Part IV. Worldly and Otherworldly Ruptures -- 10. Possession in Tantra -- 11. Tantra and the Diaspora of Childhood Possession -- 12. The Medicalization of Possession in Āyurveda and Tantra -- 13. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819751903321 |
Smith Frederick M | ||
New York, : Columbia University Press, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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