Academia, Avocation and Lucidity in the Supernatural Fiction of M.R. James

In his ‘antiquarian’ ghost stories, Montague Rhodes James sought to examine the male character 'sub specie ludi', as solitary types who – in their sensitivity to inherently playful, or ludic, situations – are launched into a transformative game in which their identity is traumatically and...

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Main Author: Shane McCorristine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Western Australia 2007-05-01
Series:Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies
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Online Access:https://www.archive.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/186591/McCorristine.pdf