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Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore

by Diane E Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider & Jeannie Banks Thomas

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  • 21st century
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Ghosts and the supernatural appear throughout modern culture, in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts. Popular media's commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from what people believe about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Belief and tradition and the popular or commercial nevertheless continually feed off each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from multiple angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously. They draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes the basis of belief in experience and the usefulness of ghost stories. And they look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. Together, they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists, Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends, and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

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

    • “supernatural”· in description
    • “supernatural”· in subject
  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from doab and online-books-page matched “Ghosts”, “ghosts hauntings”, and “Haunted places”. Retained metadata contains “Ghosts” in the title, “haunting” in the title, “ghost” in the description, and 5 additional metadata match(es).

    • “ghosts hauntings”· via Directory of Open Access Books
    • “Ghosts”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Haunted places”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Ghosts”· in title
    • “haunting”· in title
    • “ghost”· in description
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Retained metadata contains “Folklore” in the title and “Folklore” in the edition title.

    • “Folklore”· in title
    • “Folklore”· in edition title

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Editions

2 editions cataloged here.

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2007———Open access

The Online Books Page curated catalog record

Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007

2007———Source listed online copy

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Identifiers

DOAB
  • 20.500.12854/49132
Online books page
  • olbp59577

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Cataloging notes

  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): GR580 .G65 2007
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007
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online-books-page:olbp59577
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