Author: Gregg A. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celtic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This study demonstrates that the living dead in medieval Norse and Celtic literatures have a functional and formulaic role, largely manifested as a process of wish-fulfillment.
The Function of the Living Dead in Medieval Norse and Celtic Literature
Author: Gregg A. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celtic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This study demonstrates that the living dead in medieval Norse and Celtic literatures have a functional and formulaic role, largely manifested as a process of wish-fulfillment.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celtic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This study demonstrates that the living dead in medieval Norse and Celtic literatures have a functional and formulaic role, largely manifested as a process of wish-fulfillment.
Death and Desire
Author: Gregg A. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dead in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dead in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Death in Medieval Europe
Author: Joelle Rollo-Koster
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315466848
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the middle ages. This volume explores overarching topics such as burials, commemorations, revenants, mourning practices and funerals, capital punishment, suspiscious death and death registrations using case studies from across Europe including England, Iceland and Spain. Drawing together and building upon the latest scholarship, this book is essential reading for all students and academics of death in the medieval period.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315466848
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the middle ages. This volume explores overarching topics such as burials, commemorations, revenants, mourning practices and funerals, capital punishment, suspiscious death and death registrations using case studies from across Europe including England, Iceland and Spain. Drawing together and building upon the latest scholarship, this book is essential reading for all students and academics of death in the medieval period.
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic
Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030331369
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
“Simply put, there is absolutely nothing on the market with the range of ambition of this strikingly eclectic collection of essays. Not only is it impossible to imagine a more comprehensive view of the subject, most readers – even specialists in the subject – will find that there are elements of the Gothic genre here of which they were previously unaware.” - Barry Forshaw, Author of British Gothic Cinema and Sex and Film The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic is the most comprehensive compendium of analytic essays on the modern Gothic now available, covering the vast and highly significant period from 1918 to 2019. The Gothic sensibility, over 200 years old, embraces its dark past whilst anticipating the future. From demons and monsters to post- apocalyptic fears and ecological fantasies, Gothic is thriving as never before in the arts and in popular culture. This volume is made up of 62 comprehensive chapters with notes and extended bibliographies contributed by scholars from around the world. The chapters are written not only for those engaged in academic research but also to be accessible to students and dedicated followers of the genre. Each chapter is packed with analysis of the Gothic in both theory and practice, as the genre has mutated and spread over the last hundred years. Starting in 1918 with the impact of film on the genre's development, and moving through its many and varied international incarnations, each chapter chronicles the history of the gothic milieu from the movies to gaming platforms and internet memes, television and theatre. The volume also looks at how Gothic intersects with fashion, music and popular culture: a multi-layered, multi-ethnic, even a trans-gendered experience as we move into the twenty first century.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030331369
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
“Simply put, there is absolutely nothing on the market with the range of ambition of this strikingly eclectic collection of essays. Not only is it impossible to imagine a more comprehensive view of the subject, most readers – even specialists in the subject – will find that there are elements of the Gothic genre here of which they were previously unaware.” - Barry Forshaw, Author of British Gothic Cinema and Sex and Film The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic is the most comprehensive compendium of analytic essays on the modern Gothic now available, covering the vast and highly significant period from 1918 to 2019. The Gothic sensibility, over 200 years old, embraces its dark past whilst anticipating the future. From demons and monsters to post- apocalyptic fears and ecological fantasies, Gothic is thriving as never before in the arts and in popular culture. This volume is made up of 62 comprehensive chapters with notes and extended bibliographies contributed by scholars from around the world. The chapters are written not only for those engaged in academic research but also to be accessible to students and dedicated followers of the genre. Each chapter is packed with analysis of the Gothic in both theory and practice, as the genre has mutated and spread over the last hundred years. Starting in 1918 with the impact of film on the genre's development, and moving through its many and varied international incarnations, each chapter chronicles the history of the gothic milieu from the movies to gaming platforms and internet memes, television and theatre. The volume also looks at how Gothic intersects with fashion, music and popular culture: a multi-layered, multi-ethnic, even a trans-gendered experience as we move into the twenty first century.
Living Death in Medieval French and English Literature
Author: Jane Gilbert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511861055
Category : Dead in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Explores medieval and modern treatments of the edgy topic of 'living death' - the dead-in-life and the living dead.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511861055
Category : Dead in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Explores medieval and modern treatments of the edgy topic of 'living death' - the dead-in-life and the living dead.
2007
Author: Massimo Mastrogregori
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110251183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Die International Bibliographiy of Historical Sciences verzeichnet jährlich die bedeutendsten Neuerscheinungen geschichtswissenschaftlicher Monographien und Zeitschriftenartikel weltweit, die inhaltlich von der Vor- und Frühgeschichte bis zur jüngsten Vergangenheit reichen. Sie ist damit die derzeit einzige laufende Bibliographie dieser Art, die thematisch, zeitlich und geographisch ein derart breites Spektrum abdeckt. Innerhalb der systematischen Gliederung nach Zeitalter, Region oder historischer Disziplin sind die Werke nach Autorennamen oder charakteristischem Titelhauptwort aufgelistet.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110251183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Die International Bibliographiy of Historical Sciences verzeichnet jährlich die bedeutendsten Neuerscheinungen geschichtswissenschaftlicher Monographien und Zeitschriftenartikel weltweit, die inhaltlich von der Vor- und Frühgeschichte bis zur jüngsten Vergangenheit reichen. Sie ist damit die derzeit einzige laufende Bibliographie dieser Art, die thematisch, zeitlich und geographisch ein derart breites Spektrum abdeckt. Innerhalb der systematischen Gliederung nach Zeitalter, Region oder historischer Disziplin sind die Werke nach Autorennamen oder charakteristischem Titelhauptwort aufgelistet.
The Other Inside
Author: Nichole Laine Sterling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Identity (Psychology) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Identity (Psychology) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
International Bibliography of Historical Sciences
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Verzeichnis der exzerpierton zeitschriften: 1926, p. [XXXI]-LXVII.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Verzeichnis der exzerpierton zeitschriften: 1926, p. [XXXI]-LXVII.
The Road to Hel
Author: Hilda Roderick Ellis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110763234X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This 1943 book uses a variety of evidence from archaeology and literature concerning Norse funeral customs to reconstruct their conception of future life.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110763234X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This 1943 book uses a variety of evidence from archaeology and literature concerning Norse funeral customs to reconstruct their conception of future life.
Transforming Warriors
Author: Peter Haldén
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317244850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of how different cultures have sought to transform individuals into warriors. War changes people, however a less explored question is how different societies want people to change as they are turned into warriors. When societies go to war they recognize that a boundary is being crossed. The participants are expected to do things that are otherwise prohibited, or at least governed by different rules. This edited volume analyses how different cultures have conceptualized the transformations of an individual passing from a peacetime to a wartime existence to become an active warrior. Despite their differences, all societies grapple with the same question: how much of the individual’s peace-self should be and can be retained in the state of war? The book explores cases such as the Nordic berserkers, the Japanese samurai, and European knights, as well as modern soldiers in Germany, Liberia, and Sweden. It shows that archaic and modern societies are more similar than we usually think: both kinds of societies use myths, symbols, and rituals to create warriors. Thus, this volume seeks to redefine theories of modernization and secularization. It shows that military organizations need to take myths, symbols, and rituals seriously in order to create effective units. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, war studies, sociology, religion, and international relations in general.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317244850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of how different cultures have sought to transform individuals into warriors. War changes people, however a less explored question is how different societies want people to change as they are turned into warriors. When societies go to war they recognize that a boundary is being crossed. The participants are expected to do things that are otherwise prohibited, or at least governed by different rules. This edited volume analyses how different cultures have conceptualized the transformations of an individual passing from a peacetime to a wartime existence to become an active warrior. Despite their differences, all societies grapple with the same question: how much of the individual’s peace-self should be and can be retained in the state of war? The book explores cases such as the Nordic berserkers, the Japanese samurai, and European knights, as well as modern soldiers in Germany, Liberia, and Sweden. It shows that archaic and modern societies are more similar than we usually think: both kinds of societies use myths, symbols, and rituals to create warriors. Thus, this volume seeks to redefine theories of modernization and secularization. It shows that military organizations need to take myths, symbols, and rituals seriously in order to create effective units. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, war studies, sociology, religion, and international relations in general.