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Alas Poor Ghost
Author | : Gillian Bennett |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1999-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UOM:39015047567238 |
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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
Author | : Gillian Bennett |
Publsiher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : IND:39000006083765 |
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Anya s Ghost
Author | : Vera Brosgol |
Publsiher | : First Second |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781466805583 |
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Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "Forever" part . . . Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who's been dead for a century. Falling down a well is bad enough, but Anya's normal life might actually be worse. She's embarrassed by her family, self-conscious about her body, and she's pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A new friend—even a ghost—is just what she needs. Or so she thinks. Spooky, sardonic, and secretly sincere, Anya's Ghost is a wonderfully entertaining debut graphic novel from author/artist Vera Brosgol. This title has Common Core connections. Anya's Ghost is a 2011 Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year title. One of School Library Journal's Best Fiction Books of 2011. One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011. Winner of the 2012 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Young Adults (Ages 12-17)
Ghost Train
Author | : Paul Yee |
Publsiher | : Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2020-08-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781773065793 |
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The story of a young Chinese girl who arrives in North America only to discover that her father has died building the railway. This powerful, unforgettable and multi-award-winning tale is based on the lives of the Chinese who settled on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s. Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has been killed. Choon-yi sees the railway and the giant train engines that her father died for, and she is filled with an urge to paint them. But her work disappoints her until a ghostly presence beckons her to board a train where she meets the ghosts of the men who died building the railway. She is able to give them peace by returning their bones to China where they were born. Ghostly, magical and yet redeeming, this tale by Paul Yee is superbly illustrated by Harvey Chan. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting)
Haunting Experiences
Author | : Diane Goldstein,Sylvia Grider,Jeannie Banks Thomas |
Publsiher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2007-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780874216813 |
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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.
Poor Ghost
Author | : David Starkey |
Publsiher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2024-03-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781684429745 |
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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
Author | : Ann Martin |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780802090867 |
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Drawing on theoretical paradigms from gender and cultural studies, Martin develops a participatory model of modernist literature and culture.
Hamlet in Purgatory
Author | : Stephen Greenblatt |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013-10-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780691160245 |
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Setting out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, Stephen Greenblatt provides an account of the rise and fall of purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution - as well as a new reading of the power of Hamlet.