What Does a House Want? Exploring Sentient Houses in Supernatural Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13044754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cristiana Pugliese (0000-0002-3194-0244, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 299-326 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Preternature Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2161-2188 • E-ISSN: 2161-2196 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/preternature.9.2.0299 |
| OpenAlex | W3086652505 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Most haunted houses in literature are inhabited or visited by supernatural entities, often ghosts. At times, they are haunted not by the ghosts of previous inhabitants but by the “residual energies” such people have left behind. Most presences and energies that haunt a house are malevolent, but they originate in human beings—meaning that other human beings, whether the new inhabitants or paranormal investigators, are usually able to understand their objectives, if not necessarily foil their plans. But what if the house itself is haunting its inhabitants; what if the house itself is a malevolent sentient entity
Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Paranormal · Sociology · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |