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Haunting Realities
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Author : Monika Elbert
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2017-06-20
Haunting Realities written by Monika Elbert and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities Following the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often recognized as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, Haunting Realities explores the period of American Realism—the end of the nineteenth century—to discover evidence of fertile ground for another age of Gothic proliferation. At first glance, “Naturalist Gothic” seems to be a contradiction in terms. While the Gothic is known for its sensational effects, with its emphasis on horror and the supernatural, the doctrines of late nineteenth-century Naturalism attempted to move away from the aesthetics of sentimentality and stressed sobering, mechanistic views of reality steeped in scientific thought and the determinism of market values and biology. Nonetheless, what binds Gothicism and Naturalism together is a vision of shared pessimism and the perception of a fearful, lingering presence that ominously haunts an impending modernity. Indeed, it seems that in many Naturalist works reality is so horrific that it can only be depicted through Gothic tropes that prefigure the alienation and despair of modernism. In recent years, research on the Gothic has flourished, yet there has been no extensive study of the links between the Gothic and Naturalism, particularly those which stem from the early American Realist tradition. Haunting Realities is a timely volume that addresses this gap and is an important addition to scholarly work on both the Gothic and Naturalism in the American literary tradition.
Haunting Realities
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Author : Monika Maria Elbert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Haunting Realities written by Monika Maria Elbert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American categories.
Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism is an innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities. Following the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic's pinnacle is often recognized as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, Haunting Realities explores the period of American Realism--the end of the nineteenth century--to discover evidence of fertile ground for another age of Gothic proliferation. At first glance, "Naturalist Gothic" seems to be a contradiction in terms. While the Gothic is known for its sensational effects, with its emphasis on horror and the supernatural, the doctrines of late nineteenth-century Naturalism attempted to move away from the aesthetics of sentimentality and stressed sobering, mechanistic views of reality steeped in scientific thought and the determinism of market values and biology. Nonetheless, what binds Gothicism and Naturalism together is a vision of shared pessimism and the perception of a fearful, lingering presence that ominously haunts an impending modernity. Indeed, it seems that in many Naturalist works reality is so horrific that it can only be depicted through Gothic tropes that prefigure the alienation and despair of modernism. In recent years, research on the Gothic has flourished, yet there has been no extensive study of the links between the Gothic and Naturalism, particularly those which stem from the early American Realist tradition. Haunting Realities is a timely volume that addresses this gap and is an important addition to scholarly work on both the Gothic and Naturalism in the American literary tradition.
Ghost Channels
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Author : Amy Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2022-03-08
Ghost Channels written by Amy Lawrence and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08 with Performing Arts categories.
Through American history, often in times of crisis, there have been periodic outbreaks of obsession with the paranormal. Between 2004 and 2019, over six dozen documentary-style series dealing with paranormal subject matter premiered on television in the United States. Combining the stylistic traits of horror with earnest accounts of what are claimed to be actual events, “paranormal reality” incorporates subject matter formerly characterized as occult or supernatural into the established category of reality TV. Despite the high number of programs and their evident popularity, paranormal reality television has to date received little critical attention. Ghost Channels: Paranormal Reality Television and the Haunting of Twenty-First-Century America provides an overview of the paranormal reality television genre, its development, and its place in television history. Conducting in-depth analyses of over thirty paranormal television series, including such shows as Ghost Hunters, Celebrity Ghost Stories, and Long Island Medium, author Amy Lawrence suggests these programs reveal much about Americans’ contemporary fears. Through her close readings, Lawrence asks, “What are these shows trying to tell us?” and “What do they communicate about contemporary culture if we take them seriously and watch them closely?” Ridiculed by nearly everyone, paranormal reality TV shows—with their psychics, ghost hunters, and haunted houses—provide unique insights into contemporary American culture. Half-horror, half-documentary realism, these shows expose deep-seated questions about class, race, gender, the value of technology, the failure of institutions, and what it means to be American in the twenty-first century.
Dreams Hauntings Nightmares And Alternate Realities
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Author : Mensah Watts
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2010-05
Dreams Hauntings Nightmares And Alternate Realities written by Mensah Watts and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05 with Religion categories.
What is beyond our world? That is a question I wanted the answer to so badly while growing up. Little did I know that question was being answered through my forgotten and dismissed childhood experiences, with the king of darkness himself. As I got older, the horrible haunting of my past began to come back to the front of my mind. The evil spirit continued haunting me as I grew older, only he did it in different ways then he did when I was a child. I did not fully remember my childhood haunting until I decided to write down the stories I did remember from childhood to adulthood. It was then that it all started coming back to me. I then realized that the king of darkness had been haunting my life as fare back as I could remember. And as I began talking to people about my stories, I began to realize that people were interested in my stories of the other world and its darkness of many forms. After consulting with a close friend, I was inspired to tell the story and to write this book.
Ghosts In Reality
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Author : Randell Van Alst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-08-25
Ghosts In Reality written by Randell Van Alst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-25 with Apparitions categories.
Ghosts in the Afterlife. Our greatest fear in mankind has always been our own mortality. What happens when our physical body dies? Is that it? The end? Is there life after death? This question has always, in a sense, haunted us. Ghosts have been reported in all cultures in the last 2,000 years. Does the Bible say anything in reference to hauntings? Haunted houses, ghosts, and Spirits exist. We fear ghosts and Spirits because we simply have fear for what we don't understand. Ghosts in Reality: The Unexplained Truth about Hauntings in Our World Today gives simple, direct answers about Spirits backed by a lifetime of experience with 10 years of investigative study. The studies of ghosts and Spirits aren't based on science, but one's own Spirit.
Ghosted
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Author : Brian Laythe
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-06-15
Ghosted written by Brian Laythe and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-15 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Reports of paranormal experiences vary tremendously, but are often associated with ghosts, haunted houses, and otherwise eerie circumstances. There exist both classic and modern texts on ghosts and haunted or possessed people, places and spaces; many discuss traditional ideas regarding such phenomena or utilize now-outdated research in highly academic and technical ways. This book offers a very different approach in reviews provided by a leading-edge research program devoted to who has ghostly experiences and why. With new insights both global in scale and multidisciplinary in scope, this collaboration by five researchers uncovers consistent evidence that anomalous experiences represent a very real "Haunted People Syndrome"--a term describing anomalous experiences that manifest recurrently to the same percipients and are interpreted as "ghostly"--with implications for future research across academia. The participation of new citizen scientists (the field investigators and researchers among us) is invited in furthering the exploration of paranormal mysteries. Photos and figures illustrating concepts and models are included, as is a glossary.
Our Paranormal Reality A True Haunting Book 2 The Investigation
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Author : Melissa George
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-12-18
Our Paranormal Reality A True Haunting Book 2 The Investigation written by Melissa George and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-18 with categories.
Our Paranormal Reality, a True Haunting. Book 2, The Investigation, Is the continuance of a family dealing with an evil entity. What was first only a nuisance, quickly turns into a haunting of the worst kind. When demonic forces threaten to destroy this family, they begin to fight back. They enter into a battle for their home, their family and their very lives. Now the family realizes they must reach out for help before they lose the ultimate fight.
Horrible Hauntings
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Author : Shirin Yim Bridges
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Horrible Hauntings written by Shirin Yim Bridges and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Apparitions categories.
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Our Paranormal Reality A True Haunting
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Author : Melissa George
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-08-07
Our Paranormal Reality A True Haunting written by Melissa George and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-07 with categories.
Our Paranormal Reality, a True Haunting. Book 1, The Early Years, Is the actual story of a family dealing with an evil entity. What was first only a nuisance, quickly turns into a haunting of the worst kind. When demonic forces threaten to destroy this family, they begin to fight back. They enter into a battle for their home, their family and their very lives.
Haunted Selves Haunting Places In English Literature And Culture
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Author : Julian Wolfreys
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-10-24
Haunted Selves Haunting Places In English Literature And Culture written by Julian Wolfreys and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-24 with Fiction categories.
Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel and other forms of art and cultural expression, to explore the relationship between subject and landscape, self and place. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach grounded in close reading, the text places Jacques Derrida’s work on spectrality in dialogue with particular aspects of phenomenology. The volume explores writing and culture from the 1880s to the present day, proceeding through four sections examining related questions of identity, memory, the landscape, and our modern relationship to the past. Julian Wolfreys presents a theoretically informed understanding of the efficacy of literature and culture in connecting us to the past in an affective and engaged manner.