The uncanny / Nicholas Royle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Royle, Nicholas, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Curiosities and wonders in literature.

Supernatural in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 340 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

The uncanny is the weird, the strange, the mysterious, a mingling of the familiar and the unfamiliar. Even Freud, patron of the uncanny, had trouble defining it. Yet the uncanny is everywhere in contemporary culture. In this elegant book, Nicholas Royle takes the reader across literature, film, philosophy, and psychoanalysis as he marks the trace of the uncanny in the modern world. Not an introduction in the usual sense, Nicholas Royle's book is a geography of the uncanny as it manifests itself - and disturbs our thinking - in a range of disciplines.

Contents:

1 The uncanny: an introduction

2 Supplement: 'The sandman'

3 Literature, teaching, psychoanalysis

4 Film

5 The death drive

6 Silence, solitude and...

7 Darkness

8 Night writing

9 Inexplicable

10 Buried alive

11 Déjà vu

12 The double

13 Chance encounter

14 Cannibalism

15 Manifestations of insanity

16 A crowded after-life

17 To be announced

18 Mole

19 The 'telepathy effect'

20 Phantom text

21 The private parts of Jesus Christ

22 Book end.

Notes:

Based on papers at university conferences and seminars.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-333) and index.

ISBN:

0415967023

0415966620

OCLC:

50960998