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Chronotopes of the uncanny : time and space in postmodern New York novels : Paul Auster's City of Glass and Toni Morrison's Jazz / Petra Eckhard.
Van Pelt Library PN56.S667 E25 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eckhard, Petra.
- Series:
- Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
- Lettre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space and time in literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American fiction--Themes, motives.
- American fiction.
- Auster, Paul, 1947-2024. City of glass.
- Auster, Paul.
- Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019. Jazz.
- Morrison, Toni.
- Physical Description:
- 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Time and space in postmodern New York novels : Paul Auster's "City of Glass" and Toni Morrison's "Jazz"
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld : Transcript, [2011]
- Summary:
- Using the theoretical frameworks of Freud, Todorov, and Bahktin, this book explores how American writers of the late 20th century have translated the psychoanalytical concept of "the uncanny" into their novelistic discourses. The two texts under scrutiny -Paul Auster's "City of Glass" and Toni Morrison's "Jazz" - show that the uncanny has developed into a crucial trope to delineate personal and collective fears that are often grounded on the postmodern disruption of spatio-temporal continuities and coherences. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Orientations
- The Uncanny: Towards a Definition 27
- Freud 28
- Todorov 32
- Chronotopoetics 41
- Schlosszeit 45
- Stadtzeit 58
- Part 2 Chronotopes of the Uncanny
- Uncanny Architextures: Paul Auster's City of Glass 69
- The Labyrinthine Subject 73
- Uncanny Verticality 83
- Ghostly Glass 91
- Rhetoric and Ruins 105
- Quinn's Camera Obscura 114
- The Uncanny Comic 120
- Haunted Harlem: Toni Morrison's Jazz 129
- Rural Pasts, Urban Presents 133
- Jazz Space 140
- Memory Tracks and Sidewalk Cracks 150
- Black Interiors 164
- The Uncanny Voice 171.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Graz, 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 3837618412
- 9783837618419
- OCLC:
- 757105387
- Publisher Number:
- 99947524250
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