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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
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eckhard, Petra <p>Petra Eckhard, Universität Graz, Österreich</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
- Lettre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism.
- The Uncanny.
- Timespace.
- New York City.
- Paul Auster.
- Toni Morrison.
- Literature.
- America.
- American Studies.
- British Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Space.
- Literary Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Postmodernism.
- The Uncanny.
- Timespace.
- New York City.
- Paul Auster.
- Toni Morrison.
- Literature.
- America.
- American Studies.
- British Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Space.
- Literary Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Eckhard, Chronotopes of the Uncanny Time and Space in Postmodern New York Novels. Paul Auster's »City of Glass« and Toni Morrison's »Jazz«
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Petra Eckhard (Dr. phil.) teaches American Literature at the University of Graz (Austria). Her research interests include contemporary American prose literature, graphic narratives, and American gothic fiction.
- 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.
- Besprochen in:Kronoscope, 16 (2016), Raphaelle Beauregard
- »Thanks to insightful comments and a great wealth of useful quotations, »Chronotopes of the Uncanny« [...] eloquently demonstrates that the postmodern genre is a major event in contemporary fiction owing to the complex ambiguity of its spacetime.«
- Reviewed in:Kronoscope, 16 (2016), Raphaelle Beauregard
- Contents:
- 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 The Uncanny: Towards a Definition 27 Chronotopoetics 41 Uncanny Architextures: Paul Auster's City of Glass 69 Haunted Harlem: Toni Morrison's Jazz 129 Conclusion 181 Works Cited 189
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839418413
- OCLC:
- 903966303
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