"That's the Way to Wooooo It!"

• Authors: Trevor Hill

Abstracts

EN

M.R. James is known as a master of the ghost story, giving his name to a sub-genre. This article explores his use of the traditional Punch and Judy puppet show in his short story The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance and the subsequent use by two modern authors, Christopher Harman and D.P. Watt, writing in the Jamesian style. The article considers the association between puppets and the occult before examining aspects of the show and how representations of historic and contemporary performances differ. Finally, the authors’ utilization of the Punch and Judy tradition in the stories is analyzed.  

Keywords

EN

ghost story; Punch and Judy; puppets; M.R. James; supernatural

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Acta Neophilologica
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 1
• Issue: XXIV
• Pages: 213-230

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Trevor Hill

• University of Warmia-Mazury in Olsztyn

• https://orcid.org/0000000331732370

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31648/an.6606

Biblioteka Nauki

2131277