Dissertations / Theses: 'Ghost stories'

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Stewart, Clare. "Fighting spirit : Victorian women's ghost stories." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2000. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1610/.

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Reed, Delanna. "Ghost Stories for Historic Rugby Ghostly Gathering." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1274.

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Celebrate Halloween Rugby style at Historic Rugby’s Annual Ghostly Gathering events with ghost stories, a bonfire, and visits from some of Rugby’s most prominent haunts! Ghost stories also performed during October 2014.

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Marshall, Matt, and n/a. "GHOST STORIES WITHOUT GHOSTS: A STUDY OF AUTHORSHIP IN THE FILM SCRIPT ?THE SEABORNE?" University of Canberra. n/a, 2008. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20090106.150522.

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In 'The Crypt, the Haunted House of Cinema', Cholodenko argues that film is, metaphorically speaking, a haunted house: an instance of the uncanny. This raises the possibility the film script is also uncanny, from the Freudian notion of das Unheimliche, the strangely familiar and familiarly strange - and thus also a haunted house. This proposition engenders a search as self-reflexive practice for that which haunts the script' an uncanny process to explore the uncanny. The search requires drawing on Barthes, acting 'as dead' with that process' attendant contradictions and problematics' the most likely ghost in the script being the writing self. Establishing the characteristics of the writing self involves distinguishing that figure from the author. This requires outlining the development of theories of the author from the concept of authorial will, as per the argument of Hirsch, to the abnegation of the author as a philosophical certainty. Barthes and Foucault call this abnegation the death of the author. Rather than that marking the end of a particular branch of analysis, the death of the author can be considered an opening to the writing practice. From this perspective, the death of the author becomes a strategy in Foucault's game of writing, effecting the obfuscation of the writing self, by placing a figure as dead, the author figure, within the metaphorical topography of the text. Indeed, the author as dead is akin to a character in the narrative but at a substratum level of the text. What places this dead figure within the text is an uncanny writing self, a figure of transgression, brought into being in the experience of Blanchot's essential solitude. 'The Seaborne' written by Matt Marshall, provides an example of a film script that constitutes a haunted house, a site of the uncanny. In terms of the generic characteristics of the film script as text type, its relative unimportance in relation to any subsequent film based on the script becomes of itself a feature of the film script. This makes the film script a site of negotiation and contestation between the implied author as hidden director on the one hand and the implied reader as implied director on the other. This confirms the film script as, using Sternberg's terminology, a blueprint text type. Examples of the negotiation and relationship between hidden director and implied director are found in analysis of 'The Seaborne' as are the tensions in the relationship between the individualistic impulses of the hidden director and the mechanistic, formal requirements of the text type as blueprint. These tensions are ameliorated by the hidden director who is then effaced within the constructed layers of the film script text to allow interpretive space for the implied director. 'The Seaborne' as representative of the film script text becomes the after-image of a written text and the foreshadowing of a future filmic one. It therefore never finds completion within its own construction process and its formation begins in templates that accord with the Bakhtin's description of the epic, as is shown by comparing the construction notes for 'The Seaborne' with Aristotlean dramatic requirements. But at the same time there is present in 'The Seaborne' a Bakhtinian dialogism that points towards the individual markers of a writing self. This writing self, referring to Kristeva, is a figure of abjection. It transgresses itself and transgresses its own transgressions. It is a ghost in a ghost story without ghosts.

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Marvulli, Pietro <1988&gt. "The Gothic Spirit in Edith Wharton's Ghost Stories." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/6666.

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La tesi si propone in un primo momento di dipingere tratti distintivi e peculiari della letteratura gotica Americana, al fine poi di approfondire lo stile e comprendere le tematiche che si celano dietro le "ghost stories" di Edith Wharton.

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Felton, D. "Haunted Greece and Rome : ghost stories from classical antiquity /." Austin : University of Texas Press, 1999. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/texas051/98039213.html.

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Sala, Carlotta <1992&gt. ""Recounting Nightmares": An Analysis of Five Dickens' Ghost Stories." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/15227.

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La tesi tratterà cinque racconti di fantasmi di Charles Dickens: The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain (1848), The Ghost in the Bride’s Chamber (1857), The Haunted House (1859), The Trial for Murder (1865) e The Signalman (1866). L’introduzione parlerà dell’origine e della storia delle Ghost Stories in generale, spiegando l’attenzione verso questo tipo di racconti durante l’epoca vittoriana ed in particolare come mai Dickens vi fosse interessato, tanto da scriverli lui stesso e pubblicarli nelle sue riviste. Nei cinque capitoli verranno analizzati i racconti sopramenzionati, focalizzandosi sulla funzione di ogni fantasma e sul significato nascosto che l’autore intendeva dare ad ognuno di essi. Le conclusioni compareranno le analogie e le differenze presenti nei racconti analizzati, evidenziandone i temi ricorrenti.

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Cadwallader, Jen Taylor Beverly. "Spirits of the age ghost stories and the Victorian psyche /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2278.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Comparative Literature." Discipline: English and Comparative Literature; Department/School: English and Comparative Literature.

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Alsowaifan, Sabah H. "Qasim's short stories, an example of Arabic supernatural/ghost/horror story." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ60270.pdf.

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Petersson, Catrine. "Tradition and Development : The Theme of Revenge in Two Ghost Stories." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för språk och kultur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-107174.

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This essay is a literary analysis of two ghost stories, Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Old Nurse’s Story” (1852) and Susan Hill’s The Man in the Picture (2007). The main focus of the essay is the theme of revenge, which is explored on the basis of similarities and differences in the mentioned ghost stories. It is shown that, in spite of many similarities, The Man in the Picture is a more developed and less conventional ghost story than “The Old Nurse’s Story”. This development is seen in the setting, the narrators and the structure of the story, all of which contain more layers in Susan Hill’s story. The essay also includes a didactic chapter which shows how a teacher can use the two ghost stories in the classroom to teach students in upper secondary school about literary analysis and the Gothic genre.

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Bissell, Sarah Jane. "Haunted matters : objects, bodies, and epistemology in Victorian women's ghost stories." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6402/.

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Haunted Matters interrogates objects, bodies, and epistemology in a selection of Victorian women’s ghost stories, arguing that these things provided a means through which the chosen writers could critique women’s troubled cultural position in mid- to late-nineteenth-century Britain. The four authors considered – Charlotte Riddell, Margaret Oliphant, Vernon Lee, and Edith Nesbit – were all fundamental figures in the development of the ghost story genre, using this popular fiction form to investigate social arenas in which women were subjugated, professional venues from which they were excluded, and the cultural construction of femininity. Each chapter is thus keyed into a specific aspect of women’s material lives: money and the financial market (Riddell); visual science and the male gaze (Oliphant); object culture and ‘feminine’ mysteriousness (Lee); and fin de siècle marriage and the female corpse (Nesbit). This study argues that these writers – in making things, bodies, and forms of perception central to their ghost stories – implicitly condemned the patriarchal society which perpetuated a range of contradictory assumptions about women, as being both bodily and spiritual, overly invested in the material world or too prone to flights of fancy. Their diverse literary endeavours in this popular fiction form enabled the selected writers to earn money, engage in public discourse, and critique the dominant culture which sanctioned women’s subjugation. Haunted Matters thus questions the ghost story’s designation as an anti-materialist genre through a focus on gender, instead foregrounding the form’s explicit connections to the material world.

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Finegan, Samuel Patrick. "Broken gates and leaky graves : spectral language and Australia's ghost stories." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/71189/3/Samuel_Finegan_Thesis.pdf.

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Ghost stories are unusual amongst supernatural literatures in their modelling of a recognisable, mimetic reality interrupted or infiltrated by immaterial forces. In its discussion of Australian ghost stories, this thesis advances a new approach to ghost narratives which seeks to model and articulate the mechanics of ghosts and hauntings as something reliant on and engaged with the material and the mundane.

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Coleman, Cornelia. "Pictures of Lily and Other Stories." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1353.

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The ghost story--in all its forms--has haunted humans since the first tales of the strange and inexplicable were told around the campfires of pre-history. Such stories explore collective ideas of death and the afterlife, the eeriness of certain places, and the awe that is felt in the presence of the Unknown. Pictures of Lily and Other Stories contains three examples of the genre, each written in a different sub-genre. "Money," the story of an impoverished college student who gets a housesitting job that is more perilous than it first appears, owes much to the haunted house stories of British master M.R. James, while "Under the House" parallels the haunted love stories of Edith Wharton. Finally, the novella "Pictures of Lily" explores gothic themes in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and Oscar Wilde.

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Foreman, Hillary Jo. "The Holy and Other Ghosts: Stories." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1586528590411429.

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Lorenz, Johnny Anderson. "Haunted cartographies : ghostly figures and contemporary epic in the Americas /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Bann, Jennifer Patricia. "Spirit writing : the influence of spiritualism on the Victorian ghost story." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/373.

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This thesis investigates the connection between the spiritualist movement and the literary ghost story, both of which came to prominence and mass popularity during the second half of the nineteenth century. While existing critical literature has viewed both phenomena as symptomatic of a wider Victorian fascination with the supernatural and the nature and possibility of an afterlife, little attention has been paid to the relationship between the two movements. By examining spiritualist literature alongside the work of both canonical and lesser-known writers, I attempt to address this area. My thesis argues for an understanding of the post-1850 ghost story as a dramatic representation of a new conception of the dead largely created by spiritualism, and reads the appearance, actions, behaviour and narratives of literary ghosts as an ongoing reflection and discussion of this idea.

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Rostedt, Erica. "The Tween Ghost Story: Articulating the Tween Experience." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1665.

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In the early 1980s, a particular kind of “tween” (children aged 10-14) ghost story emerged. Through examining multiple examples of tween ghost stories (such as Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn, Stonewords by Pam Conrad, and Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss), this paper illustrates the ways in which these stories are remarkably consistent in nature, and then investigates this sub-genre’s specific and consistent articulation of the struggle of moving away from childhood and into the teenage years. By using a ghost to create a situation so off balance (a ghost who is stuck, a protagonist who is in flux), the tween ghost story is uniquely and cleverly designed to help the protagonist navigate through the scary situation of growing up.

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Smith, Jeannette Ward. "Being Incommensurable/Incommensurable Beings: Ghosts in Elizabeth Bowen’s Short Stories." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/11.

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I investigate the ghosts in Elizabeth Bowen’s short stories, “Green Holly” and “The Happy Autumn Fields.” By blending psychoanalytic feminism and social feminism, I argue that these female ghosts are the incommensurable feminine—a feminine that exceeds the bounds of phallocentric logic and cannot be defined by her social or symbolic manifestations. An analysis of Bowen’s ghosts as actual ghosts is uncharted territory. Previous Bowen critics postulate that Bowen’s ghosts are imaginary figments or metaphors. These critics make Bowen’s stories “truthful” representations of the world, but, as such, Bowen’s ghosts become representations of the world’s phallocentric order. In contrast, I argue that these stories adopt a mestiza consciousness. Gloria Anzaldùa postulates that through a subaltern perspective developed outside of western logic, the mestiza reclaims the supernatural that exists outside of the masculine, symbolic order. The female ghosts are the feminine that Luce Irigaray explains, “remain[s] elsewhere” (76) as they live incommensurably in an alternate supernatural realm, disrupting phallic logic.

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Callaghan, Jennefer. "Spectral realism the ghost stories of William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Sarah Orne Jewett /." Restricted access (UM), 2009. http://libraries.maine.edu/gateway/oroauth.asp?file=orono/etheses/37803141.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Emory University, 2008.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 25, 2010) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 236-269). Also issued in print.

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Eriksson, Johan. "Evil and Innocence : Children in Ghost Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, and Susan Hill." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-105351.

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The essay analyses three works of supernatural horror fiction written by different authors over various periods of time. These three works are “The Old Nurse’s Story” by Elizabeth Gaskell, “Lost Hearts” by M. R. James and The Small Hand by Susan Hill. The argument of the essay is that all three stories diverge from the conventions of Gothic horror stories by including a child in the role of victim and ghost. This makes the stories more frightening since they challenge the reader’s expectations of children’s innocence. In order to discern how the stories diverge from the norm the essay explores the traditional conventions of the genre such as setting, narrator, the structure of the time-frame, the buildup of mystery, the observer of the ghost, the ghost itself, and finally the visitation. In the end, the essay finds that all three of the analysed stories fit the formula of a conventional Gothic horror story, using similar methods for building up suspense and fear in the reader. Moreover, all three enhance the effect through the combination of evil and innocence in the children.

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Zhao, Shumeng. "The Boy Who Draws Cats: 3D Animation As a Medium For Telling Culturally-specific Ghost Stories." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461265497.

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Handley, Sasha. "'Visions of an unseen world' : the production and consumption of English ghost stories, c.1660-1800." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2005. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2843/.

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This thesis traces the cultural significance of ghost beliefs in English society from c.1660 to c.1800. It is an attempt to partially re-enchant these years and to nuance historical characterisation of eighteenth-century England as an enlightened, secularising and ‘anti-superstitious’ nation. Moreover, I aim to restore ghost beliefs to historical legitimacy and my central argument is that they played a crucial role in shaping the specific social, political, economic and religious contours of eighteenth-century life. Ghosts have been largely exorcised from existing accounts of this period and so this research represents a fresh contribution to historical understandings of the long eighteenth century and to historiographies of the supernatural more generally. The following chapters describe how ghost beliefs blended with the religious cultures of Anglicanism and Methodism by reinforcing orthodox theological teachings. The idea that dead souls could return to earth also complemented clerical initiatives to reform lay spirituality and to temper the extremes of rational religion. I chart how ghost beliefs fared in the face of new enlightenment philosophies, and how they informed discourse of politeness, individuality and interiority. This is accompanied by explorations of the relevance of ghost beliefs in everyday life. I describe the places and spaces in which ghost stories were told, the people who narrated them and those who listened. This ‘thick description’ emphasises how the spread of ghost stories was encouraged by contemporary labour relations, by the expansion of British imperial and trading interests overseas, and by patterns of sociability that were intrinsically linked to the realities of eighteenth-century life. I have harnessed insights from socio-linguistics and the sociology of literature to theorise the relationship between ghost stories and ghost beliefs. I have examined the production, circulation and consumption of ghost stories, as well as their form and content, to explain how these texts reflected and shaped the opinions of a variety of readers. In so doing, this thesis suggests an important relationship between literary forms and historical change.

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Morgan, Kazel Yvonne. "Not a ghost : liminal female identity and American women's supernatural fiction, 1870-1902 /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Lyons, Reneé C. "Knock Knock, Who's There? Spooky Stories from the White House." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2406.

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Bentley-Edwards, Melissa Ann. "Laughing in the Shadow: The Role of Humor in Ghost Story Telling." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2201.

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The ghost story concert is a popular modern form of presenting ghost stories to ticket buying audiences and is one of the last stomping grounds of the oral tradition. Attendees come to be scared but not terrified. Tellers employ humor to release tension during the tale. When does humor release tension while maintaining the momentum of the story? When does the humor employed deflate it into a comical tale and diffuse suspense altogether? In an effort to answer these questions, four variants of a single story, Tailypo, were analyzed for the presence of tension and humor inducing stimuli employing Rothbart's diagram of Schematic Representation of Affective Response to Sudden, Intense, or Discrepant Stimulation. Rothbart's model has previously been applied to affective response to horror film; here it has been applied to oral storytelling.

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Stevens, Catherine Rose. "Spectre within : unburying the dead in Elizabethan literature." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5514.

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This thesis examines spectrality in Elizabethan literature, focusing on the ghost as a figuration of disjuncture within contemporary constructions of the dead. Taking account of the cultural unease and uncertainties about the afterlife generated during the Reformation, I explore how particular conceptualizations of the dead manifest instabilities that move the figure of the ghost into the disturbing role of the spectre. The literature I examine ranges from Elizabethan translations of Seneca and key theological treatises to examples of the English revenge tragedy produced by Shakespeare, Marston, and Chettle. In drawing upon this cross-section of work, I highlight the resonances between varying forms of spectrality in order to explore ways in which the ghost incorporates, but also exceeds, the theatre’s requirement for dramatic excess. It thus becomes clear that the presence of the spectre extends beyond the immediate purposes of particular writers or genres to expose a wider disruption of the relation between, and ontologies of, the living and the dead. The theoretical apparatus for this project is drawn primarily from deconstruction and psychoanalytic theory, with attention to the uncanny as an area in which the two intersect and overlap. These modes of analysis usefully highlight areas of disturbance and slippage within the linguistic and conceptual structures by which the living and dead are defined and understood. In adopting this approach, I aim to expand upon and complicate existing scholarship concerning the figure of the ghost in relation to sixteenth-century theological, philosophical, mythological, and popular discourses and traditions. I do so by demonstrating that the emergence of the uncanny arises through a culturally specific haunting of the form and language of Elizabethan treatments of the dead. The spectre thereby emerges as a figure that is as much the product as the cause of instabilities and erosion within the Elizabethan construction and containment of the dead.

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Scott, Joline L. "Shells." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1285194565.

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Foley, Matt. "Haunting modernisms : appropriations of the ghostly in Eliot, Woolf, Bowen and Lawrence." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/10994.

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This thesis is an extended reading of the topos of the ghostly as it is staged in the modernist writings of T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen and D.H. Lawrence. As I argue, their distinct appropriations of haunting are innately tied to their individual theories of the aesthetic; there are also a number of recurring motifs throughout their respective oeuvres, which time and again evoke a ghostly register. Consistently appearing in the texts I read here, most of which were published between the years 1919 and 1935, are figurations of the ghostly as a symptom of ‘ontological uncertainty’, as well as renderings of purgatorial subjectivity, and aporias of mourning. I locate my reading in response to the scholarly fields of haunting studies, mourning modernisms and Gothic modernisms. In a move common to contemporary theoretical studies of haunting, I draw also from the latter work of Jacques Derrida, a theoretical lens that facilitates my reading of a complex modernist ethics of mourning and alterity, one that often courts the ghostly, but resists what Derrida terms ‘hauntological’ work. The Derridean figure of the ethical apparition, in its status as the Absolute Other, is consistently complicated or rejected in these texts. This resistance mirrors a purgatorial mode of subjectivity that recurs in a range of guises in the modernisms I read here. In uncovering the economies that lie beneath these haunted subjectivities Jacques Lacan’s metapsychology of the subject helps also to conceptualise Bowen and Lawrence’s handling of the spectral. Bowen’s is a distinctly visual imagination, and her staging of a haunted subjectivity is elucidated by calling upon Lacan’s formulation of the gaze. Lawrence, whose work is consistently concerned with a-symbolic bodily registers, bypasses a number of the purgatorial aporias staged in the writings of Woolf, Eliot and Bowen. Viewing his appropriation of haunting through a Lacanian understanding of feminine jouissance suggests Lawrence’s welcoming of a radical ghostly other that may transcend the aporias of subjectivity, ethics and mourning that characterise these haunting modernisms.

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Stansberry, Tonya Faye. "Imprisoned and Empowered: The Women of Edith Wharton's Supernatural Fiction." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2003. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0712103-091758/unrestricted/StansberryT072203f.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2003.
Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0712103-091758. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.

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Kemp, Joshua M. "Heartwood: Spiritual homebuilding and white-vanishing in Australian gothic fiction." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2022. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2549.

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This thesis represents the spiritual connection between a non-Aboriginal Australian and the Australian natural landscape through a creative work, Heartwood, and an exegesis, which engages with the white-vanishing trope in Australian Gothic fiction. It critically examines ways in which this trope has been used in Australian literature to, consciously or not, represent Aboriginal characters as Other, peripheral or absent, and sometimes appropriated their religious beliefs. Heartwood (2021) is an Australian Gothic novel which features two white Australian characters and their spiritual connection to the landscape, in an attempt to articulate the white-vanishing trope but without othering or sidelining Aboriginal characters. The novel also attempts to explore a form of spiritual connection which does not impinge on or appropriate Aboriginal religious beliefs, a thematic concept rarely explored in Australian Gothic fiction. This thesis utilised the Practice Based Research methodological approach in an attempt to gain new knowledge through the research and creative production of a novel, Heartwood. The subsequent exegesis explores how effective this creative work has been in seeking out this new knowledge. Since the emergence of Australian forms of Gothic fiction during colonisation, white Australian writers have explored the complex and fraught spiritual relationship between non-Aboriginal people and the landscape, often utilising corrosive narrative structures such as the lost-in-the-bush trope to do so. In these texts Aboriginal presence is sidelined or even completely ignored in favour of a primarily white Australian focus. When Aboriginal characters do appear, they have been depicted as demonic, ghostly or supernatural. Some academics believe because Aboriginal characters are depicted as inhuman, their connection to the landscape and sense of land ownership has been elided. Aboriginal religious beliefs have also been appropriated in these works to explore a non- Aboriginal sense of spirituality. Some of the most popular and critically acclaimed Australian novels of the twentieth century have been guilty of this, such as Voss by Patrick White and Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. This creative work, and the exegesis accompanying it, explore and ultimately seek to subvert the bias inherent in these traditions of Australian Gothic fiction. This is achieved by producing a story which refuses to appropriate Aboriginal religious and/or spiritual beliefs, as well as featuring Aboriginal characters who are not depicted as supernatural or ghostly. The novel also explores a spiritual connection between non-Aboriginal characters and the natural landscape of Western Australia’s Southern Forests region without impinging on the religious beliefs of Aboriginal people. The creative work re-emplaces Aboriginal presence into the text without appropriating an Aboriginal voice or point-of-view.

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Määttä, Maarit. "Strange Spirits : – Possession and the queering of gender and other social positions in Yuan Mei’s Zibuyu." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-411564.

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This thesis explores a Qing dynasty collection of stories about ghosts and other strange events written by Yuan Mei (1716–1798). The thesis focuses on a number of stories about possession of living persons by spirits, which are studied with the help of Sara Ahmed’s queer phenomenology. By studying stories in which the living and the dead and men and women’s identities overlap while they are possessed, we gain greater understanding about hierarchical relations during Qing dynasty, and how these stories both support and question these.
Uppsatsen studerar en samling av berättelser om spöken och andra ovanliga händelser skriven av Yuan Mei (1716–1798) under Qingdynastin i Kina. Uppsatsen fokuserar på ett antal berättelser där andar tagit en människa i besittning, som studeras med hjälp av Sara Ahmeds queer fenomenologi. Genom att studera berättelser om de levande och döda samt män och kvinnor vars identiteter överlappar vid besittningar, får vi bättre förståelse över hierarkiska relationer under Qingdynastin och hur berättelserna både stödjer och ifrågasätter dessa.

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Van, Graan Mariëtte. "Die rol van ruimte in Afrikaanse spookstories / deur Mariëtte van Graan." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1898.

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Millbern, Ryan S. "Running down the ghosts : stories." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1337200.

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The four short stories in this collection all take place in Galvin, a rural Midwestern town plagued by its reluctance to acknowledge the problems that are destroying it: methamphetamines, unemployment, and a dwindling police force to name a few. The characters in this collection realize that stasis eventually becomes paralysis, and that escape is both necessary and inevitable, whether it is through uprooting, obsession, or substance abuse. Each character experiences alienation and struggles with the way their past decisions have shaped the trajectory of their lives. There is a sense of danger throughout the collection for the next generation of the town's inhabitants, as small children are usually in trouble or under the guidance of adults who are still struggling to untie the knots of their own lies. These characters are all running down ghosts—of the loved ones they've lost or abandoned, of the innocence they've surrendered, of the lives they lived before regret.
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Pillainayagam, Priyanthan A. "The After Effects of Colonialism in the Postmodern Era: Competing Narratives and Celebrating the Local in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1337874544.

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Lake, Marilyn Hope. "Our mothers' ghosts /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3091940.

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Cotter, Cara E. "Ghosts That We Knew." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1689.

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Torres, Jessica M. "In the Presence of Ghosts: A Series of Short Stories." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/491.

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This is a creative thesis centering around four different lives; each is unrelated to the next in every way except one. I titled my thesis "In the Presence of Ghosts" because in each story the protagonist is not quite there. When dealing with loss we tend also to lose a part of ourselves. The idea of not being fully present in one's own life is fascinating to me and I try to explore this notion in separate ways and to different ends.

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Gratch, Ariel Alexander Craft Renee. "Haunting stories of abuse revealing ghosts through critical performance ethnography /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1804.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 11, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of the Arts in the Department of Communication Studies." Discipline: Communication Studies; Department/School: Communication Studies.

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Borden-King-Jones, Christine A. "Speaking the Unspeakable: Storied Experience and Everyday Ghosts." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1619788906764408.

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Jacobs, Emily. "Excerpts From the Eva Crane Field Diary: Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28436/.

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Male or female, young or old, the characters of this collection inhabit a liminal space of trauma and social dislocation in which elements of the real and fabulous coexist in equal measure. The ghosts that populate the stories are as much the ghosts of the living, as they are the ghosts of the dead. They represent individual conscience and an inescapable connection to the past.

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Mullins, Michelle D. ""Twins and the Sunken Continent" and "Lexington Ghosts": Two short stories by Murakami Haruki." Connect to online resource, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1449643.

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Köster, Terena. "On Stories of Liveliness: following the Arts of Living on a Damaged Karoo Veld." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31117.

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This thesis is concerned with the conditions of generating a livable Karoo landscape and the arts of living on a damaged Karoo veld. It takes place in a context where the anthropogenic influences on land degradation, desertification and biodiversity loss continues to haunt the Karoo in the present. The Karoo is a semi-arid region that spans the interior of South Africa. It is also region that has been subject to ongoing and widespread concern of the impact of overgrazing, threatening the livability of the Karoo landscape. This is a result of human/nonhuman relations that have been grounded in a colonial mastery of the land, whereby the advent of private property regimes, modernist technologies and capitalist extraction has allowed for the land to be cheapened, exhausted and severely degraded in a process of colonial dispossession. This research is a qualitative ethnography interacting with farmers and nonhumans on rangelands in the Great Karoo. This thesis shows how the earlier degradation of the Karoo has demanded farmersto pay attention to the relationalities between ecology and economy, since their economic/ecological survival depends entirely on the ongoing multispecies assemblages of which humans form a part. Infrastructures and technologies have become grounds for new ontological practices of regenerating the Karoo veld. Infrastructures (namely fencing) and sheep are used in ways that mimic the earlier migration of large herds of antelope. Here, the bodies of sheep are curated and moved in order to perform a particular ordering of a Karoo ‘nature’. This movement is believed to instigate multispecies liveliness. Sheep, who were once destroyers of the veld, are now enrolled in practices that are believed to bring back the ‘natural’ vegetation of the Karoo. The thesis problematises the ongoing Western ways of knowing that separate the world into binaries of ‘nature’/’culture’, ‘human’/’non-human’, ‘subject’/object’, ‘domestic’/‘wild’, ’economy’/‘ecology’, ‘life’/‘death’. Rather, it argues that a concern with ontological plurality is a process of paying attention to the mutual ecologies and multiple species that gather in human/nonhuman worlding projects on rangelands in the Karoo.

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Tisi, Deborah <1996&gt. "Ghost of Tsushima - Il videogioco che racconta il viaggio alla scoperta della cultura giapponese." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21326.

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I videogiochi sono diventati al giorno d’oggi un affermato e potente mezzo di comunicazione, non solo assicurano un momento di divertimento e svago, ma sono anche promotori di contenuti sociali significativi e nozioni educative. Nel corso degli anni, il videogioco ha vissuto un’evoluzione da un punto di vista di innovazione tecnologica, con migliori console o game design e gameplay più realistici e dettagliati, e un’evoluzione in termini di contenuti condivisi grazie a uno storytelling sempre più avvincente, teso a coinvolgere emotivamente l’utente. Tali cambiamenti hanno portato alla nascita di nuove riflessioni sul videogioco, al centro negli ultimi anni di studi multidisciplinari. Oggi, infatti, sono disponibili analisi specifiche che ne spiegano la valenza come oggetto tecnologico, studi in ambito psicologico e da un punto di vista delle scienze comportamentali sui gradi di influenza che esso può avere sulla mente umana e in aggiunta studi in campo religioso, artistico, letterario, etc. Con queste premesse, è nata l’idea di analizzare il media videogioco quale strumento di supporto nell’apprendimento e nella diffusione della cultura di un paese, studiando nello specifico il caso del Giappone, da sempre una delle ambientazioni che più affascina il pubblico di gamers. L’elaborato prende in considerazione il caso di Ghost of Tsushima, un videogioco RPG open world della casa statunitense SuckerPunch Production, rilasciato a luglio del 2020, e i due DLC, usciti uno nello stesso anno e l’altro nel 2021. Il gioco racconta le vicende di un samurai di Tsushima durante il tentativo di invasione da parte dei mongoli: in prima sede si studierà la veridicità o meno dei fatti storici narrati, per poi focalizzarsi sull’analisi dal punto di vista artistico delle ambientazioni di gioco. Non mancherà, inoltre, l’occasione di fare degli approfondimenti circa i riferimenti presenti nel videogioco agli aspetti religiosi, letterari, folkloristici e in generale agli usi e costumi della cultura giapponese. Attraverso queste analisi e demarcando il successo riscosso fra la community di gamers e non solo, lo scopo di questo elaborato è quello di dimostrare come Ghost of Tsushima abbia contribuito a diffondere e far conoscere degli aspetti della cultura giapponese e, in particolar modo, come abbia reso celebre l’isola di Tsushima precedentemente sconosciuta alla maggior parte del pubblico.

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Varelli, Francesca <1996&gt. "L’Unità religiosa e politica in Vivekānanda (1863-1902) e Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950)." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21338.

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La presente analisi storica intende approfondire la natura della relazione tra il tema dell’Unità ‘religiosa’, in seno al movimento di riforma che caratterizza il Bengala tra Otto e Novecento, e quello dell’Unità ‘nazionale’, nell’ambito del movimento svadēśī, attraverso lo studio di due importanti personalità, ossia Vivekānanda (1863-1902) e Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950). L’indagine si compone di tre parti: dopo una breve introduzione all’argomento, i primi due capitoli sono dedicati, rispettivamente, all’esame della vita e dell’opera di Vivekānanda e di Aurobindo Ghose; il terzo e ultimo capitolo si concentra in modo specifico sul tema dell’Unità, mettendo in luce i punti di contatto tra il cosiddetto «inclusivismo gerarchico» vivekanandiano e la sādhanā aurobindiana. Infine, uno spazio sarà riservato alle riflessioni conclusive, nel quale si provvederà a formulare una risposta chiara e pertinente agli interrogativi da cui nasce la presente dissertazione.

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Compagnoni, Anna Giulia. "‘Ghosts and Spirits from the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art’: proposta di traduzione e commento." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/18825/.

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Questo elaborato ha lo scopo di tradurre alcuni estratti del libro ‘ghosts and spirits from the tikotin museum of japanese art’, edito da Jaron Borensztajn e edito da Leiden University Press nel 2012. Il libro si concentra sul collezionista tedesco Felix Tikotin, che ha passato la sua vita commerciando e collezionando opere d'arte giapponesi, tra cui stampe, statue e lacche. Il libro raccoglie inoltre decine di opere collezionate da Tikotin durante gli anni e donate successivamente al museo da lui fondato a Haifa, Israele, nel 1960: il Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art. L'elaborato contiene approfondimenti sul background storico e culturale del libro e sul tema dell'arte mitologica giapponese; contiente intoltre estratti tradotti dall'inglese provenienti da diverse sezioni del libro. Verrà infine offerto un commento, esponendo le teorie di traduzione che più hanno influenzato le soluzione adottate per i problemi traduttivi incontrati.

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Skrove, Katie Suzanne. "The power of voice: Cultural silencing and the supernatural in women's stories: Allende's The House of the Spirits, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and Morrison's Beloved." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2382.

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This thesis focuses on a study of the female voice and silencing as well as on the use of the supernatural in selected works of literature from three different cultures: Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and Toni Morrison's Beloved.

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Nye, Bret Allan. "Hauntings in the Midwest." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1374166761.

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Bagnolini, Beatrice, Benedetta Lucchi, Nicola Ghetti, and Francesco Giovannetti. "Suasa senonum. Progetto per un nuovo parco archeologico." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/9973/.

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Il sito archeologico di Suasa è stato oggetto di una lunga campagna di scavi iniziata negli anni sessanta, che ha portato alla pubblicazione di diversi saggi e ha stimolato l’attenzione di numerosi studiosi nel corso degli ultimi anni. Questo interesse, però, rimane un fenomeno ristretto agli addetti al settore e non vede una vera riflessione sul piano turistico. Suasa, infatti, rimane un gioiello culturale scarsamente conosciuto nel territorio ed escluso dai principali percorsi turistici. Il primo obiettivo del nostro intervento è quello di porre l’attenzione su un’area di così grande interesse e avvicinare le persone, esperti di storia e non, all’antica città, in modo che questa possa acquisire una nuova vita e ritrovare una sua valenza nel territorio. Il primo passo in questa direzione è stato quello di mettere in relazione il parco archeologico con gli altri siti archeologici della zona inserendolo in un sistema di offerta culturale volto all’esplorazione e all’approfondimento del territorio marchigiano e della sua storia. La posizione di Suasa sul fiume Cesano, inoltre, risulta particolarmente favorevole ad una integrazione dell’area con i percorsi cicloturistici, in quanto fornisce la possibilità di creare un parco fluviale di supporto a queste nuove tratte di collegamento, così come alle esistenti, andando ad aggiungere valore all’area. Questo elemento risulterà un fattore chiave per la collocazione e la definizione del visitor center del parco archeologico, il quale fa del rapporto tra il sito archeologico e il territorio il suo punto fondante. L’organizzazione del parco richiama quella che era l’organizzazione della città romana, cercando di restituire al visitatore non tanto l’immagine precisa di una ricostruzione, ma la logica e la successione degli spazi che l’impianto urbano poteva assumere. Gli interventi sulle emergenze, quindi, sono realizzati seguendo una coerenza progettuale e materica volta a minimizzare l’impatto sull’archeologia e nel contesto.

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LU, TING-JUNG, and 盧亭蓉. "The Study of Ghost Stories in Taiwanese Ghost Stories." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hwdytd.

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國立雲林科技大學
漢學應用研究所
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There are about 180 ghost stories in Taiwanese Ghost Stories and also be seperated by the presentation as the place where bump into the ghost , ghost’s face and the experiences of bump into the ghost. 　　This research will introduce of the book simply first and describe the origin and the type of ghost stories detailedly. And then scatter the ghost stories in the book and reclassify them as private place , public place and outdoor environment. Explore where is the ghost stories happen the most. And finally understand the fear when people listen or watch ghost stories. This research will explore the faction that makes people feel fear behind these ghost stories as 3 parts: psychic phenomena, life threatning, the connection between the images of ghost and the personal experiences of fear.

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Chiang, yi fang, and 蔣宜芳. "A study of ghost wife in tradition short stories." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43826436589362301776.

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Chang, Yu-shan, and 張鈺珊. "research on Human-Ghost love and marriage stories in ghost category of “太平廣記”." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72910512390526278546.

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“太平廣記” was a novel general collection before Sung Dynasty, also played an important role in the research of ancient novels, absurd haunting stories occupied the biggest share in this book. The research range of this thesis focused on the 78 chapters of stories, which connected with Human-Ghost love and marriage stories, in the ghost story category, by means of investigation of these stories, to understand the forming background and transition situation of Human-Ghost love and marriage stories, to disclose the era thinking consciousness cultural spirits and social phenomena, transmitted from Human-Ghost love and marriage stories. Through the literary theoretic analysis, to study the creative skills and effects demonstrated in the Human-Ghost love and marriage stories, and in anticipation of establishing a more complete track for these kinds of stories. Here summarize the chapters of the thesis in the following: Chapter 1 Preface: to mainly describe the research motive and objective, research results of recent generation people, as well as the defined research range, research method. Chapter 2 to study the forming background of Human-Ghost love and marriage stories from the ghost category stories of “太平廣記”. Firstly to search and study the forming and development of the Human-Ghost love and marriage stories, then to investigate the material resource of Human-Ghost love and marriage stories, that is, to make an arrangement of the compiling elements, material research and writer introduction of this book. Chapter 3 to analyze the chapter contents of Human-Ghost love and marriage stories in ghost category of “太平廣記”, and conclude into daring flirtation, seduction with beauty, revival to continue the love affair, revenge with hatred, 4 major categories of stories to proceed the statements. Chapter 4 to investigate the displayed cultural meanings in respects of the penetration of religious belief, the display of destiny concept, the desire of literates ideals, the leap of female position, the value of life etiquette, from the analysis of the Human-Ghost love and marriage stories in the ghost category of “太平廣記” in the mental, social and culture, multiple angles. Chapter 5 in adoption of Chinese-Western novel theory, to investigate the art specialty and special value from the image depicts of people and things, environment of time and space, script structure and narrative angle, in the Human-Ghost love and marriage stories of ghost category in “太平廣記”. Chapter 6 Conclusion: to make a general conclusion for this thesis, and mention how these kinds of stories cause influence to the later-time novel dramas, finally, explaining probably there are some parts not complete enough, but just providing a reference for the further research direction.

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