Ancient and modern Egypt feature in numerous fantastic stories by Victorian and Edwardian writers. This book explores how works of popular Egyptianising fantastic literature can be read as critical texts which comment on the Oriental mind-set of Europe, and especially Britain. The analysis of the genre and the discussion of possible reasons for the frequent use of Egyptianising elements show that Egypt was simultaneously a real and an imagined place a perfect ingredient to create gothic stories and magical events, and, at the same time, of specific interest to Great Britain for cultural and...
Ancient and modern Egypt feature in numerous fantastic stories by Victorian and Edwardian writers. This book explores how works of popular Egyptianisi...
Das Auenland war vor langer Zeit, und Narnia liegt nur hinter der richtigen magischen Pforte sei es ein Kleiderschrank oder ein Wandbild. Zufallig ist in den Landern der Magie nichts, ebenso wenig wie in der dazugehorigen Literatur. Besonders die textliche Konstitution von Raum und Zeit bestimmt diese kontraempirischen Weltentwurfe bis in kleinste Detail und verfestigt sich zu genrespezifischen Strukturen, die dem erfahrenen Leser als unbewusste Orientierung dienen. Einmal erkannt, wird Fantasy dadurch dekodierbar: Als Puzzle kulturhistorischer Versatzstucke, als historiographischer...
Das Auenland war vor langer Zeit, und Narnia liegt nur hinter der richtigen magischen Pforte sei es ein Kleiderschrank oder ein Wandbild. Zufallig ist...
In this volume, ghost stories are studied in the context of their media, their place in history and geography. From prehistory to this day, we have been haunted by our memories, the past itself, by inklings of the future, by events playing outside our lives, and by ourselves. Hence the lure of ghost stories throughout history and presumably prehistory. Science has been a great destroyer of myth and superstition, but at the same time it has created new black boxes which we are filling with our ghostly imagination. In this book, literature from the Middle Ages to Oscar Wilde and Neil Gaiman,...
In this volume, ghost stories are studied in the context of their media, their place in history and geography. From prehistory to this day, we have...