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@article{ART003033915},
author={AHN HEEWON},
title={“I Can’t Get You Out of My Head”: Border Ballad as Haunting Reality in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2023},
volume={36},
number={3},
pages={145-172}

TY - JOUR
AU - AHN HEEWON
TI - “I Can’t Get You Out of My Head”: Border Ballad as Haunting Reality in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2023
VL - 36
IS - 3
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 145
EP - 172
SN - 1226-3397
AB - This essay examines The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (2011) by David Greig. It focuses on how its modern reinterpretation of the gothic elements in Border Ballads engages with the renegotiation of Scottish identity. Situating the drama’s uncanny spirits within the discussion of Scottish Gothic literature, this essay argues that the Devil and the ghost’s persistent interventions in the drama’s academic landscape transform ballads into living reality. If the scholars in the drama previously considered ballads and folktales as old and irrelevant, the supernatural encounters and the drama’s consistent adaptation of ballads challenge their notions by revealing the adjacency of these narratives to them. Ultimately, this paper argues that haunting in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart forms resistance against the reification of the Scottish ballads to static objects of appreciation or irrelevant past by imposing the lasting continuity of the supernatural.
KW - David Greig;Scottish drama;Border Ballad;Scottish supernatural;Gothic narrative
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AHN HEEWON. (2023). “I Can’t Get You Out of My Head”: Border Ballad as Haunting Reality in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. Journal of Modern English Drama, 36(3), 145-172.

AHN HEEWON. 2023, "“I Can’t Get You Out of My Head”: Border Ballad as Haunting Reality in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.36, no.3 pp.145-172.

AHN HEEWON "“I Can’t Get You Out of My Head”: Border Ballad as Haunting Reality in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart" Journal of Modern English Drama 36.3 pp.145-172 (2023) : 145.

AHN HEEWON. “I Can’t Get You Out of My Head”: Border Ballad as Haunting Reality in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. 2023; 36(3), 145-172.

AHN HEEWON. "“I Can’t Get You Out of My Head”: Border Ballad as Haunting Reality in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart" Journal of Modern English Drama 36, no.3 (2023) : 145-172.

AHN HEEWON. “I Can’t Get You Out of My Head”: Border Ballad as Haunting Reality in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. Journal of Modern English Drama, 36(3), 145-172.

AHN HEEWON. “I Can’t Get You Out of My Head”: Border Ballad as Haunting Reality in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2023; 36(3) 145-172.

AHN HEEWON. “I Can’t Get You Out of My Head”: Border Ballad as Haunting Reality in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. 2023; 36(3), 145-172.

AHN HEEWON. "“I Can’t Get You Out of My Head”: Border Ballad as Haunting Reality in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart" Journal of Modern English Drama 36, no.3 (2023) : 145-172.