‘This mystery and nightmare of imagination’: A review of the use of spirits, ghosts, and aliens in Antarctic imaginative writing.

As a comparatively unknown space, the Antarctic has provided centuries of writers with the opportunity to tell stories involving ‘otherly presences’ – spirits, ghosts, and aliens. This review examines eleven texts, covering a range of periods, forms, and cultures, from Coleridge’s 1798 poem ‘The Rim...

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Main Author: Moffat-Wood, Alex
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: University of Canterbury 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/13906