Format:
1 Online-Ressource (97 pages)
ISBN:
9780520952409
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0520952405
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0520273176
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9780520273177
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9786613587428
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6613587427
Series Statement:
New California poetry
Content:
Gravesend, which takes its name from the English town at the mouth of the Thames, revisits the genre of the ghost story and, through fragmentation, juxtaposition, and allusion, powerfully summons the uncanny, the spectral presence. Cole Swensen delves into ancient fables, the Bible, medieval records, Victorian ghost stories, contemporary interviews, and more to explore the effects of the ghostly on our daily lives, at times returning to the notion of "gravesend," implicitly asking if all ends in the grave or if death itself has an end. Swensen's focus on language shapes these visitations--glimp
Note:
Cover; Gravesend; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; ONE: HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GHOST?; Echo Body; If; Sometimes the Ghost; Etymology; A Ghost; He Who Was; Varieties of Ghost; Ajar; The Ghost Is in Itself; The End of Antiquity; According to Scripture; More Miracula; Going Home; The Hellequin's Hunt; The Gesta; Who Only Living; The Ghost Story; History; What Ghosts; Interview Series 1; Walking Through; A Face; Toward the End; The Beginnings of the Modern Era; Fairy Tale; TWO: HOW DID GRAVESEND GET ITS NAME?; Ghost Stories; A Good Friend; Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman.
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Some Paintings of GhostsSome Ghosts in Paintings; Gravesend; Gravesend; Gravesend; Interview Series 2; Pocahontas (1595, Powhatan Confederacy--1616, Gravesend, England); The Ghost Dance; The Name; Engraved; Kent; THREE: WHAT DO TOU THINK A GHOST IS?; Cicatrice; Ghosts in the Sun; Whole Ghost; Traveling Ghost; Crowds; And Are Ghosts; Interview Series 3; Old Wives' Tales; Freud Claims; Some Chinese Ghosts; Across; Ghosts; Who Did; After This Death There Will Be No Other; Haint Blue; One No; How Might a Ghost Age; Who Walked; The Ghost Orchid; Acknowledgements; Notes.
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Swensen, Cole Gravesend Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 ISBN 9780520273177
Language:
English
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