Add to ORKGThis volume is a collection of thirteen essays built around the question ‘what is the supernatural, and how, and why, has it changed over time?’ It is divided into two complementary sections; the first focussing on research on the discourse of the supernatural (including the miraculous) located in the medieval and early modern eras, and the second consisting of a set of test-cases involving research on the uncanny, often articulated in a post-Freudian sense, as expressed in modern literature, film and art. The eclectic and prismatic approach pursued via a variety of test-cases of the supernatural in this book gives rise to a clear, comparative and diachronic study of the main characteristics of the supernatural
Although the supernatural is usually an essential component of the gothic, there is significant vari...
The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval wor...
The Nineteenth Century was an era of frequent change, making Victorian identity increasingly difficu...
The Victorians were haunted by the supernatural, by ghosts and fairies, table-rappings and telepathi...
In the twenty-first century, as in centuries past, stories of the supernatural thrill and terrify us...
International audienceSupernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare’s pla...
In Scotland the subject of the supernatural has been largely ignored by mainstream historians and ac...
Book synopsis: The uncanny is an experience of disorientation, of something disturbing, so that our ...
In 1919 Sigmund Freud raised the interest in the uncanny by claiming in his essay "Das Unheimliche" ...
This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evol...
This dissertation traces the development of the supernatural from the late eighteenth to the late ni...
This thesis undertakes to examine Rudolf Otto\u27s work on the rational understanding of God and aut...
Paganism, Christianity, and the Supernatural Until the 12 th century, the supernatural derived its...
This chapter introduces a collection of essays: The territory charted by the essays in this book is ...
Nineteenth-century literary criticism has mainly focused on lasting scientific advancements, at the ...
Although the supernatural is usually an essential component of the gothic, there is significant vari...
The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval wor...
The Nineteenth Century was an era of frequent change, making Victorian identity increasingly difficu...
The Victorians were haunted by the supernatural, by ghosts and fairies, table-rappings and telepathi...
In the twenty-first century, as in centuries past, stories of the supernatural thrill and terrify us...
International audienceSupernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare’s pla...
In Scotland the subject of the supernatural has been largely ignored by mainstream historians and ac...
Book synopsis: The uncanny is an experience of disorientation, of something disturbing, so that our ...
In 1919 Sigmund Freud raised the interest in the uncanny by claiming in his essay "Das Unheimliche" ...
This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evol...
This dissertation traces the development of the supernatural from the late eighteenth to the late ni...
This thesis undertakes to examine Rudolf Otto\u27s work on the rational understanding of God and aut...
Paganism, Christianity, and the Supernatural Until the 12 th century, the supernatural derived its...
This chapter introduces a collection of essays: The territory charted by the essays in this book is ...
Nineteenth-century literary criticism has mainly focused on lasting scientific advancements, at the ...
Although the supernatural is usually an essential component of the gothic, there is significant vari...
The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the medieval wor...
The Nineteenth Century was an era of frequent change, making Victorian identity increasingly difficu...