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  1. Die NEUTRUM-Trilogie
    Published: 2012

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    Source: BASE Selection for Comparative Literature
    Language: German
    Media type: Undefined
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 810
    Subjects: Neutrum; Paranormal; Psi; Das Nichts; Realität,Magie; Zustände des Seins
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  2. The witch in history
    early modern and twentieth-century representations
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

    'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer 'An invigorating and challenging book ...... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer 'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement 'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer 'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement A Holocaust of one's own: the myth of the Burning Times -- At play in the fields of the past: modern witches -- The witch in the hands of historians: a tale of prejudice and fear -- The house, the body, the child -- No limit: the body of the witch -- Self-fashioning by women: choosing to be a witch -- Elizabethan stagings: the witch, the queen, class -- The all-singing, all-dancing plays of the Jacobean witch-vogue: The masque of queens, Macbeth, The witch -- Testimony and truth: The witch of Edmonton and The witches of Lancashire -- The witch on the margins of 'race': Sycorax and others -- Conclusion: bread into gingerbread and the price of transformation. Looking at texts from colonial narratives to court masques, trial records to folktales, and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, this book shows how the witch acts as a carrier for fears, desires and fantasies both now and in the early modern period

     

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