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Leif Erik Schenstead-Harris

Bio: Leif Erik Schenstead-Harris is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poetry & Drama. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 61 citations.

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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a field survey on the history of ghost stories and the theatre, focusing on three main arguments about ghost stories: purpose, method, definitions, and major argument about telling ghost stories.
Abstract: ........................................................................................................................................... ii Acknowledgments ......................................................................................................................... iii Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................... iv List of Figures ................................................................................................................................. vi Preface ............................................................................................................................................ vii 1 Introduction: Speaking of Ghosts ........................................................................................... 1 1.1 Purpose, Method, Definitions ......................................................................................... 1 1.2 Talking Ghosts: On Ghost Stories and Criticism ....................................................... 26 2 How to Tell A Ghost Story .................................................................................................... 45 2.1 Field Survey: A Brief History of Ghost Stories and the Theatre ............................... 45 2.2 Major Argument: About Telling Ghost Stories .......................................................... 52 2.3 Speaking of Ghosts: Conor McPherson’s The Weir ................................................... 61 2.4 An Irish Gothic: Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats... ................................................. 76 2.5 Staging South African Photography and the Ghost of Sizwe Banzi ......................... 90 2.6 A Haunting Machine: Theatrical Technologies and Samuel Beckett’s Shades ..... 108 2.7 Haunting Oceans, Mourning Languages: J.M. Synge and Derek Walcott ............ 135 3 Witness to Ghosts ................................................................................................................. 155 3.1 Field Survey: Transnational Poetics and the Globalgothic ..................................... 155 3.2 Major Argument: Voice, Medium, Rhythm, and the Poetry of Dead Metaphors162 3.3 Eavan Boland and the Haunted Chorus .................................................................... 187 3.4 Breyten Breytenbach and the Afrikaans Gothic ....................................................... 209 3.5 Nohow On from Here: Samuel Beckett’s Worsening Writings .............................. 235 3.6 Scholia on a Case Study: Imagining the Zong ........................................................... 259

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01 Jan 2016
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TL;DR: A section for the review of books is a regular feature of 0fLandscape Journal as discussed by the authors, where the opinions and ideas expressed in the reviews are those of the reviewers and do not necessarily depict the views of the Journal editors or the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.
Abstract: A section for the review of books is a regular feature 0fLandscape Journal. The opinions and ideas expressed in the reviews are those of the reviewers and do not necessarily depict the views of the Journal’s editors or the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Suggestions for books to be reviewed are always welcome, as are comments regarding the reviews published. All correspondence should be sent to the Book Review editors:

753 citations