Alas Poor Ghost

Alas Poor Ghost
Author: Gillian Bennett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1999-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Drawing on modern field research among elderly women in England and historical research in supernatural traditions, Gillian Bennett offers a clear and thought-provoking discussion of the vigorous survival, nature, and patterns of belief in the supernatural. Focusing on contact with the dead, which was especially emphasized and recounted by her informants, Bennett discusses the role of bereavement in these occurrences, examines how and why narratives are employed to account for personal experiences, and looks at case studies in the history of ghosts and visitations. Book jacket.

Traditions of Belief

Traditions of Belief
Author: Gillian Bennett
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1987
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Girl of Nightmares

Girl of Nightmares
Author: Kendare Blake
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0765328666

Ghost-hunter Cas Lowood returns to find out what happened to Anna Dressed in Blood.

Haunting Experiences

Haunting Experiences
Author: Diane Goldstein
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2007-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0874216818

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.

The Ghost in the Hall

The Ghost in the Hall
Author: K. M. Avery
Publisher:
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2021-10-24
Genre:
ISBN:

Something is very wrong with the Fitzwilliam estate... It was supposed to be a regular séance job. But from the minute I met an angry ghost in the hall, I knew there wasn't going to be anything ordinary about this house or its dead residents. First of all, there were way too many of them. Second, some of them had been helped along from living to dead. Third, my attempt to figure out what was going on got a bit sidetracked when I met the gardener. He was tall, dark green, and handsome. And really, really smart. So I hired him to help me figure out what was going on. And that's when things got interesting, in more ways than one. I think I'm falling for an orc, and that's making it really hard to concentrate on doing my job, but if I don't, I'm going to be in a whole heap of trouble.

Poor Ghost

Poor Ghost
Author: David Starkey
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2024-03-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1684429749

On a September afternoon in Santa Barbara, a private jet carrying the members of Poor Ghost—one of America’s most storied rock bands—plunges into the backyard of Caleb Crane, a retired insurance salesman. Poor Ghost moves back and forth between the impact of the plane crash on Caleb’s life, and an oral history of Poor Ghost, from its beginnings as a working-class punk band to rock icons.

Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Bed

Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Bed
Author: Ann Martin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0802090869

Drawing on theoretical paradigms from gender and cultural studies, Martin develops a participatory model of modernist literature and culture.

Alas Poor Darwin

Alas Poor Darwin
Author: Hilary Rose
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2010-12-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1446412172

Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that 'it's all in our genes' has become the most popular scientific theory of the late 20th century. Books such as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Edward O.Wilson's Consilience and Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct have become bestsellers and frame the public debate on human life and development: we can see their influence as soon as we open a Sunday newspaper. In recent years, however, many biologists and social scientists have begun to contest this new biological determinism and shown that Evolutionary Psychology rests on shaky empirical evidence, flawed premises and unexamined political presuppositions. In this provocative and ground-breaking book, Hilary and Steven Rose have gathered together the most eminent and outspoken critics of this fashionable ideology, ranging from Stephen Jay Gould and Patrick Bateson to Mary Midgley, Tim Ingold and Annette Karmiloff-Smith. What emerges is a new perspective on human development which acknowledges the complexity of life by placing at its centre the living organism rather than the gene.

The Vertical Plane

The Vertical Plane
Author: Ken Webster
Publisher: Iris Publishing
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2022-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780955983153

The Vertical Plane: The Mystery of the Dodleston Messages: A unique supernatural detective story.