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Gothic hauntings : melancholy crypts and textual ghosts / Christine Berthin.
- Title
- Gothic hauntings : melancholy crypts and textual ghosts / Christine Berthin.
- Author
- Berthin, Christine, 1960-
- Publication
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR830.T3 B47 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- ix, 188 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- What is buried in the crypts of the Gothic? Building on psychoanalytic research on haunting, cryptonymy and melancholy, as well as on French philosophies of language, this book explores how haunting is not just a Gothic narrative device but the symptom of an impossibility of representation and of an irreparable loss at the heart of language.
- Subject
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > History and criticism
- Horror tales, English > History and criticism
- Ghosts in literature
- Metaphor in literature
- Symbolism in literature
- Psychoanalysis in literature
- Psychoanalysis and literature
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
- Horror tales, English
- LITERARY CRITICISM > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary studies: general
- Literature
- Psychoanalysis and literature
- Gothic novel
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Transgenerational haunting : the subject as other -- Discourse and its other : the figural and the real -- Gothic as poetics -- The melancholy crypt of Frankenstein -- Secretions and secretaries : the secret of Dracula -- The raising of the dead : art and melancholy.
- ISBN
- 9780230237872 (alk. paper)
- 0230237878 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009048425
- OCLC
- 468976218
- SCSB-11887799
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library