Hauntology /
Coverley, Merlin,
Hauntology / Hauntology : ghosts of futures past. Merlin Coverley. - 320 pages ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-307), filmography (pages 308-309) and index.
Ghosts and spectres, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an earlier age, so haunted? The concept of hauntology has evolved since first emerging in the 1990s, and has now entered the cultural mainstream as a shorthand for our new-found obsession with the recent past. But where does this term come from and what exactly does it mean? This book answers these questions by examining the history of our fascination with the uncanny from the golden age of the Victorian ghost story to the present day.
9780857304193 0857304194
(Coutts)059089170
Supernatural--History.
Occultism--History.
Parapsychology.
Hauntology / Hauntology : ghosts of futures past. Merlin Coverley. - 320 pages ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-307), filmography (pages 308-309) and index.
Ghosts and spectres, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an earlier age, so haunted? The concept of hauntology has evolved since first emerging in the 1990s, and has now entered the cultural mainstream as a shorthand for our new-found obsession with the recent past. But where does this term come from and what exactly does it mean? This book answers these questions by examining the history of our fascination with the uncanny from the golden age of the Victorian ghost story to the present day.
9780857304193 0857304194
(Coutts)059089170
Supernatural--History.
Occultism--History.
Parapsychology.