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The Supernatural Revamped : From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (276 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611478655
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Supernatural RevampedDDC classification:
  • 398.2
LOC classification:
  • GR78.S86 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Ethereals and Terrestrials -- Chapter One: Of Angels and Demons -- Chapter Two: No More Mr. Nice Angel -- Chapter Three: The Nightmare Tales of J. S. Le Fanu -- Chapter Four: Of Fairies and Sorcerers -- Chapter Five: Philosophers and Demons -- Chapter Six: The Haunting of a Nation -- Chapter Seven: An American Werewolf in Trelleborg -- Chapter Eight: Magic Mexican Modernity -- Chapter Nine: Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy, Supernatural Heredity, and "Creature" Genetics -- Part Two: The Undead and Still Dead -- Chapter Ten: An Anime Dullahan -- Chapter Eleven: Re-dressing Revenants -- Chapter Twelve: From Vampires to Zombies -- Chapter Thirteen: Dying to Love You -- Chapter Fourteen: Undead Yakuza -- Chapter Fifteen: "Look at the Flowers" -- Chapter Sixteen: From White Zombies to Night Zombies and Beyond -- Chapter Seventeen: From Saga to Skyrim -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.
Summary: This book presents the supernatural as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk characters, their literary representations, or popular media. Instead, we move around the world and into the twenty-first century, reshaping legends into a post-modern image that is psychologically and socially relevant.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Ethereals and Terrestrials -- Chapter One: Of Angels and Demons -- Chapter Two: No More Mr. Nice Angel -- Chapter Three: The Nightmare Tales of J. S. Le Fanu -- Chapter Four: Of Fairies and Sorcerers -- Chapter Five: Philosophers and Demons -- Chapter Six: The Haunting of a Nation -- Chapter Seven: An American Werewolf in Trelleborg -- Chapter Eight: Magic Mexican Modernity -- Chapter Nine: Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy, Supernatural Heredity, and "Creature" Genetics -- Part Two: The Undead and Still Dead -- Chapter Ten: An Anime Dullahan -- Chapter Eleven: Re-dressing Revenants -- Chapter Twelve: From Vampires to Zombies -- Chapter Thirteen: Dying to Love You -- Chapter Fourteen: Undead Yakuza -- Chapter Fifteen: "Look at the Flowers" -- Chapter Sixteen: From White Zombies to Night Zombies and Beyond -- Chapter Seventeen: From Saga to Skyrim -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.

This book presents the supernatural as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk characters, their literary representations, or popular media. Instead, we move around the world and into the twenty-first century, reshaping legends into a post-modern image that is psychologically and socially relevant.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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