"Alas, poor ghost!" : traditions of belief in story and discourse

"Alas, poor ghost!" traditions of belief in story and discourse

In the rational modern world, belief in the supernatural seemingly has been consigned to the worlds of entertainment and fantasy. Yet belief in other worldly phenomena, from poltergeists to telepathy, remains strong, as Gillian Bennett's research shows. Especially common is belief in continuing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bennett, Gillian (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press c1999.
Edition:Revised edition
Subjects:
Folklore > Great Britain.
Occultism > Great Britain.
Ghosts > Great Britain.
Women > Great Britain > Folklore.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430353906719
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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