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Haunting Experiences

Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore

By: Diane Goldstein,Sylvia Grider,Jeannie Banks Thomas

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Haunting Experiences

Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore

By: Diane Goldstein,Sylvia Grider,Jeannie Banks Thomas

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts

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Haunting Experiences

Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore

By: Diane Goldstein,Sylvia Grider,Jeannie Banks Thomas

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Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore

By: Diane Goldstein,Sylvia Grider,Jeannie Banks Thomas

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The Wind

By: Dorothy Scarborough,Sylvia Ann Grider

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The Wind

By: Dorothy Scarborough,Sylvia Ann Grider

In Sweetwater, Texas, in the 1880s, frail and vulnerable Letty Mason depicts the plight of all gentle, protected women thrust into the rugged role of pioneer women. The wind itself is a main character in the book, and it becomes a demon set upon Letty's destruction, driving her toward one of the most startling conclusions in the literature of the West.

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0292790139

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9780292790131

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