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Ghosts: deconstruction, psychoanalysis, history

by Peter Buse & Andrew Stott

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

Notes on Contributors Introduction: A Future for Haunting P.Buse and A.Stott I: SPECTRALITY AND THEORY Specters of Engels W.Maley 'Something Tremendous, Something Elemental': On the Ghostly Origins of Psychoanalysis R.Luckhurst Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin and the Poetics of Urban Modernism C.Britzolakis Spectre and Impurity: History and the Transcendental in Derrida and Adorno N.Mapp II: UNCANNY FICTIONS Anachrony and Anatopia: Specters of Marx, Derrida and Gothic Fiction R.Parkin-Gounelas Theft, Terror, and Family Values: The Mysteries and Domesticities of Udolpho N.Freeland The Medium of Exchange M.Merck The Postcolonial Ghost Story K.Gelder and J.M.Jacobs III: SPECTRAL CULTURE The Machine in the Ghost: Spiritualism, Technology, and the 'Direct Voice' S.Connor Angles in the Architecture: the Economy of the Supernatural C.Bloom The Other Side of Plato's Wall R.Noyes Index

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists, Occultism and esotericism, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Retained metadata contains “supernatural” in the description.

    • supernatural· in description
  • Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the description and “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • Spiritualism· in description
    • Spiritualism· in subject
  • Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “ghosts hauntings”. Retained metadata contains “Ghosts” in the title, “ghost” in the description, “haunting” in the description, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • ghosts hauntings· via OpenAlex
    • Ghosts· in title
    • ghost· in description
    • haunting· in description
    • Ghosts· in edition title

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1999-01-01Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave Macmillan eBooksEnglishUnknown

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