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The Oxford Book Of The Supernatural
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Author : Dennis Joseph Enright
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1994
The Oxford Book Of The Supernatural written by Dennis Joseph Enright and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
The supernatural has this in common with nature: you may drive it out with a pitchfork, but it will constantly come running back. At a time when science and technology are proving ambivalent in their effects and institutionalized religion is weakened by self-inflicted wounds, interest in its manifestations is insatiable. This sweeping anthology presents material in which, touchingly, eerily or bizarrely, the supernatural and the natural meet and ignite, illuminating our deepest anxieties, frailties, and hopes. While chiefly concerned with specific instances, it gives due weight to the views of philosophers and fanatics, of men of letters and the man in the street, and of lovers and lost souls. Mixing what is advanced as fact with what is offered as fiction, it takes in hauntings both malignant and benign, magic, vampires and other popular monsters, witches and fairies, the devil seeking whom he may devour, sex and the supernatural, dreams and coincidences, daemonic influences in art, comedies of the occult, near-death, experiences and after-death expectations. The closing section sums up the war between believers and disbelievers and touches on the processes of reading and of writing about the subject. Testimonies cited are ancient and modern, drawn from East and West, from Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist sources, and range from Homer to Hardy, Pliny to Primo Levi, Apuleius to A. S. Byatt, through Rabelais, Shakespeare, Johnson, Goethe, Dickens, George Eliot, Flaubert, Kipling, Yeats, Rebecca West, and many others, including some who, like Browning's medium, Mr Sludge, find a little cheating comparable to the china egg that prompts a hen to lay a real one. For fervent believers andsceptics alike, there can be no more magical compendium than this.
The Young Oxford Book Of Supernatural Stories
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Author : Dennis Pepper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Young Oxford Book Of Supernatural Stories written by Dennis Pepper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Children's stories categories.
This is a collection of stories about all kinds of supernatural events and creatures. You'll meet vampires, witches, werewolves, banshees, screaming angels, scary scarecrows, gloves that will strangle you, rooms that will suffocate you, and things you can't bear to talk about. This successful collection is now being published in paperback and features stories by well-known writers such as Angela Carter, M.R. James, Philippa Pearce, Alison Prince, and Adele Geras. Also in the same series: The Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories, The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings .
Supernatural
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Author : Clay Routledge
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Supernatural written by Clay Routledge and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Psychology categories.
Humans are existential animals. We are all fully aware of our fragility, transience, and potential cosmic insignificance. Our ability to ponder the big questions about death and meaning and the anxiety that these questions can provoke have motivated us to be a species not only concerned about survival, but also about our significance. The quest for transcendent meaning is one reason why humans embrace the supernatural. Children naturally see the world as magical, yet when humans reach full cognitive development they are still drawn to supernatural beliefs and ideas that defy the laws of physics. Even those who consider themselves secular or atheists are seduced by supernatural belief systems. Clay Routledge, an experimental psychologist, asserts that belief or trust in forces beyond our understanding is rooted in our fear of death and need for meaning. In Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World, he reveals just how universal supernatural thinking is, and how this kind of thinking is adaptive and even healthy. Routledge takes readers through a wide range of fascinating research from psychology that paints a picture of humans as innate supernatural thinkers. Exploring research from the emerging field of experimental existential psychology, he makes the case that all humans have the same underlying existential needs, with similar coping strategies across times, cultures, and degrees of religiousness. Surprisingly, cultural institutions such as sports, environmentalism, secular humanism, and science also showcase supernatural attributes and qualities. Indeed, studies show that supernatural thinking assuages stress and anxiety and improves mood and psychological well-being. But there is a potential dark side to this line of thinking: it can lead to personal and social problems, and some individuals can take it a step too far. However, Routledge argues that this dark side of supernatural thinking is the exception, not the rule. Further, supernatural thinking is ever-present, and should unite us instead of dividing us.
The Oxford Book Of Gothic Tales
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Author : Chris Baldick
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
Release Date : 2009
The Oxford Book Of Gothic Tales written by Chris Baldick and has been published by Oxford Books of Prose & Verse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with English fiction categories.
Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents 37 sinister and unsettling tales for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.
Supernatural Stories Ghost Stories And Strange Tales From Oxford Shire
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Author : John Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Supernatural Stories Ghost Stories And Strange Tales From Oxford Shire written by John Richardson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
12 Tales Of The Supernatural
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Author : Michael Cox
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1997
12 Tales Of The Supernatural written by Michael Cox and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fantasy fiction, English categories.
These 12 unearthly stories of the supernatural set not only in traditional mists and shadows, but also in modern bungalows, railway carriages, and well-lit city streets, portray ordinary men and women confronted by mysteries that are beyond both nature and reason. Distinctive as literature and pleasurably gripping, these stories will linger long in the memory.
A Supernatural War
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Author : Owen Davies
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2018
A Supernatural War written by Owen Davies and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
How widespread belief in fortune-telling, prophecies, spirits, magic, and protective talismans gripped the battlefields and home fronts of Europe during the First World War.
The Supernatural And English Fiction
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Author : Glen Cavaliero
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1995
The Supernatural And English Fiction written by Glen Cavaliero and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
This book is the first ever to describe and discuss all the principal English writers who have handled the subject of the supernatural. Among those included in Glen Cavaliero's absorbing study are James Hogg, Sheridan Le Fanu, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Walter de la Mare, M. R. James, John Cowper Powys, William Golding, Iris Murdoch, and Muriel Spark. As well as analysing the senses in which the supernatural may be understood, he relates them to different kinds of fiction, such as the Gothic novel, the occultist romance, the ghost story, novels of paranormal psychology, nature mysticism, and late twentieth-century uses of allegory and fable. He examines the impact of supernaturalist themes upon naturalistic writers, and discusses the relevance of the supernatural to the question of the truthfulness of fiction, and to contemporary literary theory and its ideological accompaniments.
A Supernatural War
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Author : Owen Davies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
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The Young Oxford Book Of Timewarp Stories
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
The Young Oxford Book Of Timewarp Stories written by and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A collection of stories about time, exploring all the different ways that we can twist and play with time. The stories take in trips to the future, package holidays to the past, visitors from other times with unwelcome messages, a thief with the power to stop time altogether, a man in lovewith someone who died years before he was born, a star fleet that paradoxically caused its own destruction, and many more. With a sure appeal for everyone who likes an exciting, thought-provoking story, as well as fans of science fiction and ghost stories, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of stories to amuse, amaze, and enthral.