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Visitors from beyond the Grave: Ghosts in World Literature

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Dámaris Romero
Dámaris Romero-González
Israel Muñoz-Gallarte
Gabriel Laguna-Mariscal

The monograph deal with the topic of ghosts in universal literature from a polyhedral perspective, making use of different perspectives, all of which highlight the resilience of these figures from the very beginning of literature up to the present day. Therefore, the aim of this volume is to focus on how ghosts have been translated and transformed over the years within literature written in the following languages: Classical Greek and Latin, Spanish, Italian, and English.

1.ª Edição
ISBN:
978-989-26-1763-3
eISBN: 978-989-26-1765-7
DOI: 10.14195/978-989-26-1765-7
Série: Classica Digitalia: Humanitas Supplementum - Estudos Monográficos
Páginas: 300
Data: Outubro, 2019

Keywords
Ghost, Greek Literature, Roman Literature, Hispanic Literature, Italian Literature, English Literature

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Introduction

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https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1765-7_0

Ghosts stories in the Greek novel: a typology attempt

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The function of dream-stories in Plutarch’s Lives

Dámaris Romero-González

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Menippus: a truly living ghost in Lucian’s Necromancy

Pilar Gómez Cardó

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Lies too good to lay to rest: the survival of pagan ghost stories in early Christian literature

Daniel Ogden

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Demons, ghosts and spirits in the philosophical tradition

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The atomistic denial of ghosts: from Democritus to Lucretius

Vera Ángel Jacinto Traver Vera

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The role of the ghosts in Seneca’s tragedies

Miguel Rodríguez-Pantoja

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Ghosts of girlfriends past: development of a literary episode

Mariscal Gabriel Laguna Mariscal

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On women’s faithfulness and ghosts: about Decameron 7

Francisco José Rodríguez Mesa

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The “Ghost” in the Magic Treatises by Lope de Barrientos

Antonia Rísquez

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“Phantom Ladies” and “Ghost Gallants”: the motif of supernatural lovers in the Spanish golden age theatre

Ana Zapatero Molinuevo

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Tomorrow in The Battle Think on Me: haunting ghosts, remorse and guilt in Shakespeare’s Richard III and Javier Marías

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Ghostly presences in H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cool Air” and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

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The influence of The Castle of Otranto in The Shining, or the reception of eighteenth-century Gothic ghosts in Stephen King’s literature

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The ghostly, the uncanny and the abject in Jean Rhys’s After Leaving Mr Mackenzie

López María J. López

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The Moroccan jinn in the Anglo-American literary and ethnographic tradition

María Porras Sánchez

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Purgatory in Los Pedroches: an anthropological approach from the ethnographic analysis of a ceremony: Ánimas Benditas in Christmas Eve in Dos Torres

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