Autore	Hackett Jon
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2019
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	704.9434 809.93375
Altri autori (Persone)	HarringtonSeán
Soggetto topico	Supernatural in motion pictures Supernatural in literature Supernatural Forests in literature Forests in art Forests and forestry Supernatural - Folklore Forests and forestry - Folklore
Soggetto genere / forma	Folklore
ISBN	0-86196-957-X 0-86196-958-8 0-86196-959-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction : Beasts of the forest -- ; Part 1 : Ferocious forests -- "You're already in hell" : Representations of the forest in Wolf People's video Night Witch (2016) / Richard Mills -- EcoGothic secrets : Venturing beneath the deep dark forest / Elizabeth Parker -- Holy monstrosity of arborescence in Brian Catling's The Vorrh / András Fodor -- ; Part 2 : Denizens of the woods -- Long in the tooth? Werewolves of a certain age / Jon Hackett -- Cruising the queer forest with Alain Guiraudie : Woods, plastics, plasticities / Bejamin Dalton -- The "good" and "bad" forests of modern fantasy cinema : A Kleinian topology / Alexander Sergeant -- ; Part 3 : Tolkien's forests -- Trees and Tolkien : Reflections between medieval and modern reverence / Brad Eden -- Shadow shrouds and moonlight veils : The forest as an existential scene in Tolkien's legendarium -- The fiendish forests of Middle-earth : Tolkien's trees as ominous adversaries.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910838343503321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	821/.7
Collana	Liverpool English texts and studies
Soggetto topico	Supernatural in literature
ISBN	1-78138-092-9 1-78138-556-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	; Introduction : The re-enchantment of romanticism -- Determining unknown modes of being : a map of Byron's ghosts and spirits / Bernard Beatty -- Shades of being : Byron and the trespassing of ontology / Gavin Hopps -- Byron and the noonday demons / Mary Hurst -- Conjuration and exorcism : Byron's spectral rhetoric / Dale Townshend -- Byron avec Sade : material and spectral violence in Childe Harold's pilgrimage canto IV / Piya Pal-Lapinski -- "Twixt life and death" : Childe Harold's pilgrimage, Don Juan and the sublime / Philip Shaw -- Byron, Ann Radcliffe and the religious implications of the explained supernatural in Don Juan / Alison Milbank -- The haunting of Don Juan / Peter W. Graham -- Being neither here nor there : Byron and the art of flirtation / Corin Throsby -- ; Afterword: Blowing on a dead man's embers : Byron's biographical ghost / Peter Allender.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910790876203321

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

Autore	Pask Kevin
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (178 p.)
Disciplina	820.9/15
Soggetto topico	Fantasy literature, English - History and criticism Imagination in literature National characteristics, English, in literature Supernatural in art Supernatural in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4214-1074-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The fairies' farewell: Shakespeare's old wives' tales -- Caliban's masque: drollery, concupiscence, creativity -- The fairy way of writing -- Painting Shakespeare fantasy -- Rebellion in fairyland: the eve of St. Agnes -- Before and after literature: J. R. R. Tolkien.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462992603321

Autore	Castle Terry
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina	305.4209033 820.937
Collana	Ideologies of desire Oxford scholarship online
Soggetto topico	English literature - 18th century - History and criticism Gothic revival (Literature) - Great Britain Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century Romanticism - Great Britain - History - 18th century Femininity in literature Sex (Psychology) in literature Supernatural in literature
ISBN	0-19-772411-6 1-4237-5848-X 1-60256-621-6 1-280-44334-0 0-19-802427-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The Female Thermometer; 3 ""Amy, Who Knew my Disease"": A Psychosexual Pattern in Defoe's Roxana; 4 Lovelace's Dream; 5 ""Matters Not Fit to be Mentioned"": Fielding's The Female Husband; 6 The Culture of Travesty: Sexuality and Masquerade in Eighteenth-Century England; 7 The Carnivalization of Eighteenth-Century English Narrative; 8 The Spectralization of the Other in The Mysteries of Udolpho; 9 Phantasmagoria and the Metaphorics of Modern Reverie; 10 Spectral Politics: Apparition Belief and the Romantic Imagination 11 Contagious Folly: An Adventure and Its SkepticsNotes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910811378703321