Mariscal Gabriel Laguna Mariscal
Most ancient Greeks and Romans believed in the ability of ghosts to interact and communicate with living humans by means of apparitions, usually through dreams. The ghost of a beloved one could show up to the surviving lover with the purpose of reproaching him for his past behavior or conveying instructions. This chapter explores some relevant milestones in the history of this literary motif from Homer to contemporary culture. As a precedent, Patroclus appears to Achilles to require a proper burial (Il. 23. 65-107). In Propertius (Elegies 4.7), Cynthia shows up to Propertius in a dream and reproaches him. The Propertian passage will be a key reference for later treatments. Petrarch remembers Laura’s visits from heaven in numerous poems of his Canzoniere. The Mannerist poet Luis Martín de Plaza also dedicated a moving sonnet to the motif to express his feelings of haplessness. In contemporary poetry, Jaime Gil de Biedma describes the ghostly visit of his beloved Bel as a symbol of remorse. The motif constitutes the subject-matter of an entire poetic cycle by Luis Alberto de Cuenca: the ghostly visits only cause frustration in him.
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ISBN: 978-989-26-1763-3
eISBN: 978-989-26-1765-7
DOI: 10.14195/978-989-26-1765-7_8
Área: Artes e Humanidades
Páginas: 123-138
Data: 2019
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Outros Capítulos (18)
Introduction
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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
Vázquez Manuel Bermúdez Vázquez
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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
Abril Cristina A Huertas Abril
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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
Ignacio Alcalde Sánchez
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