Search Results - "Jeannie Banks Thomas"
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Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore
Published 2007“…Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and…”
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The Usefulness of Ghost Stories
Published in Haunting Experiences (15-09-2007)“…When I discuss supernatural narratives with my students, they inevitably ask me, “Do you believe in ghosts?” They’re looking for some kind of vindication or…”
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Gender and Ghosts
Published in Haunting Experiences (15-09-2007)“…In the mid-nineteenth century, Coventry Patmore published the well-known poem “The Angel in the House,” which defines the Victorian model of the ideal,…”
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Conclusion: The “Spectral Turn”
Published in Haunting Experiences (15-09-2007)“…It is indeed a remarkable cultural phenomenon that the paradigms associated with scientific rationalism still pervade contemporary academic understandings of…”
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Introduction: Old Spirits in New Bottles
Published in Haunting Experiences (2007)“…Bright wind chimes composed of enticing, candy-colored, pastel bits of glass are for sale at the Winchester Mystery House gift shop (figure 1). Some of the…”
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Part II: Narrating Socialization and Gender
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Part III: Old Spirits in New Contexts
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