I decided to put a list of the books I've been reading, and a quick summery:
Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century- Marina Warner:
An exploration of idea's of soul, spirit, phantom and everything in between, tracing back, predominantly, to the Enlightenment. It explores these idea's via central themes, mainly material based, such as the relationships between death, memory and wax, and spectres, air and clouds.
The Celtic Myths, Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends- Miranda Aldhouse-Green:
Introduces and explores the concepts of celtic mythology, including an introduction to who the celts where, their myths which have been passed down to us, and how they were created and told, including the druids, who continued an oral tradition of story telling, which eventually was written down, and it's place in crafts such as ornamental pots, which tell excepts of these stories
Terror and Wonder, The Gothic Imagination- The British Library, ed. Dale Townshend
Accompanying a past exhibition of the same name, the book (and the exhibition, really) explores the way the gothic imagination has long been expressed in art, literature, film, architecture, music and fashion, and why it has such a strong grip on the viewer.
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