Full Description
Volume II of New Directions in The Ghost Story provides a further sixteen essays interrogating and reconsidering established canons in the ghost story tradition and recurring modes of analysis. Focusing on folklore, legends, historiography, and story telling across a range of media and genres, this volume covers topics from Arthurian Romances to haunted toilets, "superphysical" werewolves to the music of Kate Bush.
Contents
PART I: Reimagining Ghostly Folklores and Legends.- Chapter 1 Canine Spectres in Early Modern England.- Chapter 2 "Spirit Wolves": The Rise of the Early Twentieth-Century "Superphysical" Werewolf Tale.- Chapter 3 The Nineteenth Century's New Urban Ghosts: Spring-Heeled Jack & the Waterproof Cape Man.- Chapter 4 Ghostly Hauntings: How Contemporary Youth Literature Updates the Legend of La Llorona.- Chapter 5 Red or Blue? Haunted Toilets in Japanese Folklore and Contemporary Urban Legend.- Chapter 6 Giselle in Daytime: New Life for the Old Ghosts of Jilted Brides.- Chapter 7 Understanding Yakshi: The Female Ghost in Malayalam Cinema.- Chapter 8 Folk Ghosts and the Ethics of (Dis)remembering: The Story of 'Molly' Leigh and the Witch who Wasn't.-PART II Haunted Historiographies and Spectral Storytelling.- Chapter 9 Ghosts, Duppies, and Colonial Violence in The White Witch of Rosehall.- Chapter 10 A Medieval Ghost Story: The Awntyrs Off Arthur and Ghostly Warnings in Medieval English Arthurian Romances.- Chapter 11 Spectral Remediations: The Ghost Stories of Extrapolation and Illustration.- Chapter 12 Reporting from the Spirit World: Ghostly Journalism at the Fin de Siècle.- Chapter 13 In the Half Light: Ghosts of Love, Memory and Mourning in the Songs of Kate Bush.- Chapter 14 "Remember me": Commemorating Ghosts from Hamlet to Hamnet.- Chapter 15 Haunted Presences, Protagonists, and Players: Deathloop and Returnal as Mediated Ghost Stories.- Chapter 16 Ghosts in the Archive: In Search of New York's Unknown Dead.
