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This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's extraordinary essay of 1919, 'The Uncanny' (Das Unheimliche).
As a ghostly feeling and concept, however, the uncanny has a complex history going back to at least the Enlightenment. Royle offers a detailed account of the emergence of the uncanny, together with a series of close readings of different aspects of the topic. Following a major introductory historical and critical overview, there are chapters on literature, teaching, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, film, the death drive, deja vu, silence, solitude and darkness, the fear of being buried alive, the double, ghosts, cannibalism, telepathy, madness and religion. -- .
About the Author
Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex -- .
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- Contributor: Nicholas Royle
- Imprint: Manchester University Press
- ISBN13: 9780719055614
- Number of Pages: 352
- Packaged Dimensions: 156x234x19mm
- Packaged Weight: 499
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Release Date: 2003-02-13
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex -- .
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