"Alas, poor ghost!" : : traditions of belief in story and discourse / / by Gillian Bennett.
In the rational modern world, belief in the supernatural seemingly has been consigned to the worlds of entertainment and fantasy. Yet belief in other worldly phenomena, from poltergeists to telepathy, remains strong, as Gillian Bennett's research shows. Especially common is belief in continuing...
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Bennett, Gillian. "Alas, poor ghost!" : traditions of belief in story and discourse / by Gillian Bennett. Revised edition. Logan : Utah State University Press, c1999. 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file rda Open access Unrestricted online access star Belief and Disbelief --Is Belief in the Supernatural Declining? --Telling It Slant --Patterns of Belief --Order in Chaos --Family Love --Competing Cultures --Contact with the Dead --Life after Death --Ghosts and Hauntings --Visitations --Cause, Consequence, and Lack Liquidated --Delving --Witnesses, Bereavement, and the Sense of Presence / Kate Bennett --Witnesses --Bereavement --The Sense of Presence --From Private Experience to Public Performance Supernatural Experience as Narrative --Belief and Disbelief: Patterns of Narration --Story Dialectic: The Imaginary Judge and Jury --"Alas, Poor Ghost!" Case Studies in the History of Ghosts and Visitations --The Ghost of Hamlet's Father --The Cock Lane Poltergeist --The Clodd/Lang Debate --The Vanishing Hitchhiker --A Brief History of "Witnesses" --Collecting the Data --The Manchester Study --The Leicester Study --Transcribing Spoken Texts --The Manchester Respondents --Linguistic Clues to Belief and Disbelief --Word Lists Showing Story Patterns in Memorates -- Bibliography -- Index. In the rational modern world, belief in the supernatural seemingly has been consigned to the worlds of entertainment and fantasy. Yet belief in other worldly phenomena, from poltergeists to telepathy, remains strong, as Gillian Bennett's research shows. Especially common is belief in continuing contact with, or the continuing presence of, dead family members. Bennett interviewed women in Manchester, England, asking them questions about ghosts and other aspects of the supernatural. (Her discussion of how her research methods and interview techniques evolved is in itself valuable.) She first published the results of the study in the well-received Traditions of Belief: Women and the Supernatural, which has been widely used in folklore and women's studies courses. "e;Alas, Poor Ghost!"e; extensively revises and expands that work. In addition to a fuller presentation and analysis of the original field research and other added material, the author, assisted by Kate Bennett, a gerontological psychologist, presents and discusses new research with a group of women in Leicester, England. Bennett is interested in more than measuring the extent of belief in other worldly manifestations. Her work explores the relationship between narrative and belief. She anticipated that her questions would elicit from her interviewees not just yes or no replies but stories about their experiences that confirmed or denied notions of the supernatural. The more controversial the subject matter, the more likely individuals were to tell stories, especially if their answers to questions of belief were positive. These were most commonly individualized narratives of personal experience, but they contained many of the traditional motifs and other content, including belief in the supernatural, of legends. Bennett calls them memorates and discusses the cultural processes, including ideas of what is a "e;proper"e; experience of the supernatural and a "e;proper"e; telling of the story, that make them communal as well as individual. These memorates provide direct and vivid examples of what the storytellers actually believe and disbelieve. In a final section, Bennett places her work in historical context through a discussion of case studies in the history of supernatural belief. Also available in print form. English Description based on print version record. "New, expanded, and extensively rev. ed. of Traditions of belief : women and the supernatural." Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-220) and index. Folklore Great Britain. Occultism Great Britain. Ghosts Great Britain. Women Great Britain Folklore. Print versio : 9780874212785 Traditions of belief. |
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Bennett, Gillian. "Alas, poor ghost!" : traditions of belief in story and discourse / Belief and Disbelief --Is Belief in the Supernatural Declining? --Telling It Slant --Patterns of Belief --Order in Chaos --Family Love --Competing Cultures --Contact with the Dead --Life after Death --Ghosts and Hauntings --Visitations --Cause, Consequence, and Lack Liquidated --Delving --Witnesses, Bereavement, and the Sense of Presence / Kate Bennett --Witnesses --Bereavement --The Sense of Presence --From Private Experience to Public Performance Supernatural Experience as Narrative --Belief and Disbelief: Patterns of Narration --Story Dialectic: The Imaginary Judge and Jury --"Alas, Poor Ghost!" Case Studies in the History of Ghosts and Visitations --The Ghost of Hamlet's Father --The Cock Lane Poltergeist --The Clodd/Lang Debate --The Vanishing Hitchhiker --A Brief History of "Witnesses" --Collecting the Data --The Manchester Study --The Leicester Study --Transcribing Spoken Texts --The Manchester Respondents --Linguistic Clues to Belief and Disbelief --Word Lists Showing Story Patterns in Memorates -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Belief and Disbelief --Is Belief in the Supernatural Declining? --Telling It Slant --Patterns of Belief --Order in Chaos --Family Love --Competing Cultures --Contact with the Dead --Life after Death --Ghosts and Hauntings --Visitations --Cause, Consequence, and Lack Liquidated --Delving --Witnesses, Bereavement, and the Sense of Presence / Kate Bennett --Witnesses --Bereavement --The Sense of Presence --From Private Experience to Public Performance Supernatural Experience as Narrative --Belief and Disbelief: Patterns of Narration --Story Dialectic: The Imaginary Judge and Jury --"Alas, Poor Ghost!" Case Studies in the History of Ghosts and Visitations --The Ghost of Hamlet's Father --The Cock Lane Poltergeist --The Clodd/Lang Debate --The Vanishing Hitchhiker --A Brief History of "Witnesses" --Collecting the Data --The Manchester Study --The Leicester Study --Transcribing Spoken Texts --The Manchester Respondents --Linguistic Clues to Belief and Disbelief --Word Lists Showing Story Patterns in Memorates -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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