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Article: "I shall most likely be out on the links": golf as metaphor in the ghost stories of M. R. James.(Critical Essay)
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- Papers on Language & Literature
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- September 22, 2004
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Celebrated author, medievalist, wit, raconteur, Provost of both Cambridge University and Eton College, Montague Rhodes James is described by E. F. Bleiler in his introduction to the Dover edition of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary as "in many ways the epitome of the brilliant but slightly eccentric British scholar," a genuine Renaissance man who produced some of the most popular ghost stories of his or any other generation (5). Distinguished by their nonpareil "urbanity, suaveness, and economy" (Sullivan 90) and found in practically every anthology of the supernatural published on either side of the Atlantic for the last hundred years, James's elegant and measured ...
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Transcript: Ghost Stories Discussed for Halloween
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR);
October 29, 1994 ;
700+ words
... ... We grew up with ghost stories, feeble frights often ... We don't think of ghost stories as particularly distinguished ... by the likes of Henry James, Shirley Jackson ... called The Norton Book of Ghost Stories. Brad Leithauser joins ...
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