Download or read book Soul of Nyria written by Mrs. Campbell Praed and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Popular Literature Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain written by Andrew McCann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing commercialization of publishing at the end of the nineteenth century, the polarization of serious literature and popular fiction became a commonplace of literary criticism. Andrew McCann cautions against this opposition by arguing that popular fiction's engagement with heterodox conceptions of authorship and creativity complicates its status as mere distraction or entertainment. Popular writers such as George Du Maurier, Marie Corelli, Rosa Praed and Arthur Machen drew upon a contemporary fascination with occult practices to construct texts that had an intensely ambiguous relationship to the proprietary notions of authorship that were so central to commercial publishing. Through trance-induced or automatic writing, dream states, dual personality and the retrieval of past lives channeled through mediums, they imagined forms of authorship that reinvested popular texts with claims to aesthetic and political value that cut against the homogenizing pressures of an emerging culture industry.
Download or read book Light written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Search for Yesterday written by D. Scott Rogo and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1985 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The amount of evidence in favor of reincarnation is massive, apparently overwhelming. But is it, after all, incontrovertible? In The Search for Yesterday, famed author/researcher D. Scott Rogo subjects the evidence for rebirth to minute and objective examination. And much of it, he finds, cannot stand up under such scrutiny. But what about the remainder--those incredible, thoroughly documented, unimpeachably witnessed cases that seem to defy any normal explanation? Surely they establish the reality of reincarnation beyond any reasonable doubt. Or do they? In this incisive book, Rogo offers a whole new theory about the meaning of these cases--something akin to, but more complex than, simple reincarnation. Among many other questions that this groundbreaking book examines are: What role may inherited, or genetic, memory play in reincarnation cases? How is it possible for two children to recall the same past life? How are past-life memories related to altered states of consciousness, hypnosis, and the experience of déjà vu? If you are seriously interested in any aspect f the uncanny world of psychic phenomena, you will want to read this book, for it may well become one of the classics in the field."--back cover.
Download or read book St James Guide to Horror Ghost Gothic Writers written by David Pringle and published by St. James Guide to Writers Ser. This book was released on 1998 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a companion volume to St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, this volume concentrates "on those types of fiction which may be labelled as horror novels, dark fantasies, ghost stories, gothic novels, tales of terror, supernatural fictions, occult fantasies, black-magic stories, psychological thrillers, tales of unease, "grand-guignol" shockers, creepy stories, shudder-pulp fictions, "contes cruels," uncanny stories, macabre fictions and weird tales."--Editor's note, p. ix.
Download or read book Southerly written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1939-1944 include the Annual report of the Australian English Association; v. for 1945-1946 include the Annual report of the Sydney Branch of the English Association.
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Download or read book Reincarnation in America written by Lee Irwin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reincarnation in America: An Esoteric History surveys the complex history of reincarnation theories across multiple fields of discourse in a pre-American context, ranging from early Greek traditions to Medieval Christian theories, Renaissance esotericism, and European Kabbalah, all of which had adherents that brought those theories to America. Rebirth theories are shown in all these groups to be highly complex and often disjunctive with mainstream religions even though members of conventional religions frequently affirm the possibility of rebirth. As a history of an idea, reincarnation theory is a current, vital belief pattern that cuts across a wide spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific domains in a long, complex history not reducible to any specific religious or theoretical explanation. This book is cross-disciplinary and multicultural, linking religious studies perspectives with science based research; it draws upon many distinct disciplines and avoids reduction of reincarnation to any specific theory. The underlying thesis is to demonstrate the complexity of reincarnation theories; what is unique is the historical overview and the gradual shift away from religious theories of rebirth to new theories that are therapeutic and trans-traditional.
Download or read book Australian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1935 written by Edmund Morris Miller and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghosts Spirits and Psychics written by Matt Cardin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating work provides a complete overview of paranormal phenomena, including the beliefs, attitudes, and notable figures who have attempted to explain, defend, or debunk the mysteries behind the unknown. Recent interest in the paranormal as pop culture fodder belies its historical status as an important subject of cultural, philosophical, and scientific significance. This book traces the trajectory of paranormal studies from its early role as a serious academic and scientific topic studied by mainstream scientists and eminent scholars to its current popularity in books, film, and TV. This compelling reference work details the experiences, encounters, and ideas that make up this controversial field of study. The contributed entries examine the broad phenomena of the paranormal, addressing the history of scientific investigations along with its contemporary media depictions to illustrate the evolution of cultural attitudes about the paranormal. A selection of primary documents provides real-life accounts and contributions from noted experts that explore the full scope of themes from spiritualism to poltergeists to astrology. Accompanying images, timelines, quotations, and sidebars make the content come to life and encourage alternative explanations of these events.
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Download or read book Landscapes of Exile written by Anna Haebich and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the international conference 'Landscapes of Exile: Once Perilous, Now Safe' held in Australia in 2006, this book examines the experience and nature of exile - one of the most powerful and recurrent themes of the human condition. In response to the central question posed of how the experience of exile has impacted on society and culture, this book offers a rich collection of essays. Through a kaleidoscope of views on the metaphorical, spatial, imaginative, reflective and experiential nature of exile, it investigates a diverse range of landscapes of belonging and exclusion - social, cultural, legal, poetic, literary, indigenous, political - that confront humanity. At the very heart of landscapes of exile is the irony of history, and therefore of identity and home. Who is now safe and who is not? What was perilous? Who now is in peril? What does it mean to belong? This book provides key examinations of these questions.
