Gothicism/Ghost Stories in Nigerian Literature: Facts or Fiction? A Comparative Analysis of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and Rems Umeasiegbu’s Ghost Stories

The English and African novels have different traditions which include Gothicism and ghost lore. These sub-genres of Literature are attracting less attention from scholars due to their peculiarity in delving into such areas like the supernatural, the deserted and haunted buildings, the haunting shadows, the fanciful, the dead among the living, antiquities and other appurtenances that trigger off the feeling of fear and awe. This study examines the aspects of this sub-genre of Literature in Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and Umeasiegbu’s Ghost Stories. It identifies that the common factors in these novels under analysis are setting and atmosphere that are predominated by mystery. The study establishes the view that the Igbo of Nigeria have a way of interpreting this mystery of ghosts quite different from the English. The study concludes that Umeasiegbu has championed a new literary sub-genre in Nigerian literature which is not strictly confined to folktale narrative techniques but is purely categorized as ghost lore

The construction and evaluation of seven lessons correlating music in grades three and six.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Alfred Hitchcock als Herausgeber, die drei Fragezeichen und das Mystery Magazine : eine Bibliographie

In der Chronologie der Ersterscheinungen versammelt die folgende Liste von Hitchcock veranstaltete Sammelbände, Kriminalmagazine und dergleichen mehr. 1. Hitchcock als Herausgeber 2. Drei drei Fragezeichen 3. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazin

A survey thesis of the personal reading preferences of children in the intermediate grades

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

The Sense of Guilt as the Factor Shaping the Form of Waterland and Out of This World

Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 dofinansowane zostało ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej nauk

-A rope breaks. A bell chimes. A man dies.- The kwispel: a neglected international narrative riddle genre.

Retoric

Landscapes and Sublime Memories: Revisiting Liang Xiaosheng's "A Land of Wonder and Mystery"

This essay suggests memory studies, ecocriticism, and trauma studies as new avenues for the study of rusticated youth narratives. Towards reaching this goal, I first introduce a meditation on memory by Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), especially his sketch of memory and imagination with classical Greek philosophy. His ideas on affective and practical memories are then telescoped into individual and communal memories. Onze Fleurs (Wo shiyi, 2011), directed by Wang Xiaoshuai (1966- ), and The River without Buoys (Meiyou hangbiao de heliu, 1984), directed by Wu Tianming (1939-2014) provide illustrative examples of each. Building upon these notions of personal memory I turn to the popular memory of rustication, especially that of the natural environment in Liang Xiaosheng's "A Land of Wonder and Mystery" ("Zhe shi yipian shenqi de tudi," 1985). More specifically I examine the evocation of the ghost marsh, narratives of departure, the family left in the city, and the menace of nature in Liang's short story to force not only a reconsideration of rustication, but also of nature in contemporary China. Moreover, in addition to noting the questioning of the sanitization of rusticated memories as a means of conforming to dominant state ideological discourses, I introduce a comparison of the story of doomed rusticated youth to the doomed youth in Sean Penn's Into the Wild, in order to force a comparison of youth and the environment often overlooked in rusticated youth studies. Finally, this essay concludes by suggesting that by more carefully considering the interplay between memory and place more nuanced and perhaps more ecologically and critically engaged assessments of rusticated youth fiction become possible

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