Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462922015
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 133
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This thrilling collection of seven Japanese ghost stories will captivate lovers of yokai stories! These classic Japanese ghost stories are based on those written by famed author Lafcadio Hearn between 1890 and 1904. Here, they are retold by award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson, who has garnered a worldwide fan base for his manga adaptations of works of Japanese literature, including such classics as The Book of Five Rings and The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts. Manga Yokai Stories includes: Nuke-kubi: A masterless samurai is trapped in a house haunted by headless goblins The Screen Maiden: A young man develops an obsession with a woman in a painting that almost kills him Corpse Rider: A woman's unburied corpse cannot rest until she has taken her revenge on the man who divorced her A Dead Secret: A young mother terrifies her family when she returns as a ghost, unable to find peace until she puts to rest a shocking secret she has left behind Wilson's skillful adaptation of Hearn's ghostly tales--along with superb manga illustrations from UK-based Japanese artist Inko Ai Takita--make these fascinating stories come to life. This book is in traditional Japanese reading order--from back to front--so that fans and manga lovers can enjoy an authentic reading experience.
Author: Jon Knowles
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622733614
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 1077
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The ghosts that haunt our sexual pleasure were born in the Stone Age. Sex and gender taboos were used by tribes to differentiate themselves from one another. These taboos filtered into the lives of Bronze and Iron Age men and women who lived in city-states and empires. For the early Christians, all sex play was turned into sin, instilled with guilt, and punished severely. With the invention of sin came the construction of women as subordinate beings to men. Despite the birth of romance in the late middle ages, Renaissance churches held inquisitions to seek out and destroy sex sinners, all of whom it saw as heretics. The Age of Reason saw the demise of these inquisitions. But, it was doctors who would take over the roles of priests and ministers as sex became defined by discourses of crime, degeneracy, and sickness. The middle of the 20th century saw these medical and religious teachings challenged for the first time as activists, such as Alfred Kinsey and Margaret Sanger, sought to carve out a place for sexual freedom in society. However, strong opposition to their beliefs and the growing exploitation of sex by the media at the close of the century would ultimately shape 21st century sexual ambivalence. Volume I of this two-part publication traces the history of sex from the Stone Age to the Enlightenment. Interspersed with ‘personal hauntings’ from his own life and the lives of friends and relatives, Knowles reveals how historical discourses of sex continue to haunt us today. This book is a page-turner in simple and plain language about ‘how sex got screwed up’ for millennia. For Knowles, if we know the history of sex, we can get over it.
Author: Peter Doebler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937809075
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A catalogue accompanying the Dayton Art Institute's special exhibition by the same name (February 22-May 3, 2020). It includes images of all prints from the series in the DAI's collection, along with brief descriptions of each. Director and Curator's comments introduce the volume.
Author: Jade Summers
Publisher: Jade Summers
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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📚 Top 15 Ghostly Apparitions 📚 Step into the eerie world of haunted mansions, phantom ships, and restless spirits with Top 15 Ghostly Apparitions! This captivating collection takes you on a spine-tingling journey through some of the most chilling ghost stories ever told. From the tragic Lady in White to the vengeful Spectral Samurai, these tales will leave you breathless and looking over your shoulder. 🔹 Highlights: The Lady in White: Discover the sorrowful spirit roaming a fog-laden mansion. The Vanishing Hitchhiker: Experience the chilling legend of a ghostly traveler. The Weeping Widow: Unravel the mystery of a heartbroken phantom. The Phantom Ship: Sail through tales of cursed crews and haunted vessels. The Headless Horseman: Face the terror of a ghostly rider in Sleepy Hollow. 🌟 Whether you're a paranormal enthusiast or a lover of ghost stories, Top 15 Ghostly Apparitions will captivate your imagination and send shivers down your spine. Dive in if you dare!
Author: Julia Vinograd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: Katherine M. Lawrence
Publisher: Toot Sweet Ink
ISBN: 0991266781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Not all vengeance is exacted by the living. In 12th-century Japan, Yamabuki, a female samurai, travels deep into the Oku wilderness. Along a lonely road, at a forgotten inn, she seeks shelter, warm food, and cold saké. But as darkness falls, she ends up fighting for her life . . . and she finds that there are terrible things under heaven that no weapon can vanquish, and that her only way to survive is to heal that which cannot be healed.
Author: Alfred Fowler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookplates
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241381282
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore - including the headless 'rokuro-kubi', the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. Edited with an introduction by Paul Murray
Author: 井原西鶴
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Author: Ann C. Hall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350371718
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the chapters collected here examine their representation, dramatic function, and what they may tell us about the belief systems of their original audiences and the conditions of theatrical production. As illusions of illusions, they foreground many dramatic themes common to a wide variety of periods and cultures. Arranged chronologically, this collection examines how ghosts represent political change in Athenian culture in three plays by Aeschylus; their function in traditional Japanese drama; the staging of the supernatural in the dramatic liturgy of the early Middle Ages; ghosts within the dramatic works of Middleton, George Peele, and Christopher Marlowe, and the technologies employed in the 18th and 19th centuries to represent the supernatural on stage. Coverage of the dramatic representation of ghosts in the 20th and 21st centuries includes studies of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, plays by Sam Shepard, David Mamet, and Sarah Ruhl, Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man, Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog, and the spectral imprint of Shakespeare's ghosts in the Irish drama of Marina Carr, Martin McDonagh, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett. The volume closes by examining three contemporary American indigenous plays by Anishinaabe author, Alanis King.
