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No place like home: The chronotope of the haunted house in Peter Ackroyd's The House of Doctor Dee
Published 2015“…It will propose that Ackroyd’s novel is a Gothic narrative of uncanny returns, in which the spectres of the past are returned to the present through the temporal dislocation of space in the classical tradition of the ghost story, by the haunting of a house. The majority of the novel’s action is set in the house of its title, which is possessed by a mysterious history, ambiguous construction, and uncanny atmosphere. …”
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Their Dreams and Ours: Britten, Film, and 'The Turn of the Screw'
Published 2021“…Britten’s 1954 opera The Turn of the Screw, based on Henry James’s ghost story, has been described by critics and academics as ‘cinematic’, but little serious academic study has been done to test this. …”
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Death and dying as a literary device: a reading of selected works by contemporary Malaysian writers
Published 2017“…In addition it adds closure to the plot, a closure which is not alien to most detective / crime fiction and horror / ghost stories. Presumably death has to be meaningful in these genres in order to be treated as an important part of human existence and thus elevated its status as a significant literary device. …”
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Imagining home: literary fantasy in contemporary Chinese diasporic women’s literature
Published 2018“…Literary fantasy offers a way to rework ancient myths, fairytales, ghost stories and legends; it also subverts conventional narrative representation, and challenges the restricting powers of patriarchy and other dominant ideologies. …”
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