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Possessed
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Rebecca R. Falkoff
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding—once a paradigm of economic rationality—came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among
The Possessed
Language: en
Pages: 235
Authors: Elif Batuman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-07 - Publisher: Granta Books

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Roaming from Tashkent to San Francisco, this is the true story of one budding writer's strange encounters with the fanatics who are devoted - absurdly! melancho
Possessed
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Thomas B. Allen
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-11 - Publisher: BookCountry

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"The Exorcist", a 1973 movie about a twelve-year-old girl possessed by the Devil, frightened people more than any horror film ever did. Many moviegoers sought t
The Self Possessed
Language: en
Pages: 733
Authors: Frederick M. Smith
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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The Self Possessed is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research.
Island Possessed
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Katherine Dunham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-16 - Publisher: Doubleday

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Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to