The essays either consider the supernatural as a recurrent literary category which reveals or implicates historically documented cultural formations; or else the writer explores in a related way how the handling of a supernatural theme in contemporary film illuminates current socio-cultural trends. The ...
through surgery of the brain-cells, is made to see the vast and monstrous deity of Nature, and becomes an idiot in consequence, dying less than a year later. Years afterward a strange, ominous, and foreign
Recent British literature, besides including the three or four greatest fantaisistes of the present age, has been gratifyingly fertile in the element of the weird. Rudyard Kipling has often approached it; and has, despite the omnipresent mannerisms, handled it with indubitable mastery in such tale...
Just as all fiction first found extensive embodiment in poetry, so is it in poetry that we first encounter the permanent entry of the weird into standard literature. Most of the ancient instances, curiously enough, are in prose; as the werewolf incident in Petronius, the gruesome passages ...
The main theme of his works is the interaction between human and society, and while writing, he was always trying to be up to date. English people in the 17th century believed in the diversity of evil spirits, who disrupted the order of nature, called the storm, and predicted death and ...
The relationship between humans and their gods has always been a primary theme in literature. Until recently, however, books in the American literary canon have rarely been concerned with any supernatural beings other than the Judeo-Christian god. In this book Bonnie Winsbro moves beyond that narr...
Themes and Colors LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Raven, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. “The Raven” is an example of Gothic literature, a genre that originated in 18th century England. Hallmarks of Gothic works include horror, death...
Anxiety, desire and vampire : the aesthetics of death and terror in Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and Bram Stoker's Dracula I briefly explain the theme and theoretical frameworks of this thesis. In Ann Radcliffe's essay "On the Supernatural in Poetry," she characterizes the distinction betwe...
Explanation of “KublaKhan” in Post-Colonial Context Post Colonialism is the interactions and reactions of the colonialists and the imperialistic powers. Literature which reacts by challenging the content and form of colonial influence and expresses its ideas in its own voice and vernacular language...
This article surveys the beliefs concerning the supernatural characteristics and powers of sacred trees in Israel; it is based on a field study as well as a survey of the literature and includes 118 interviews with Muslims and Druze. Both the Muslims and