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Uncanny modernity : cultural theories, modern anxieties
- Title
- Uncanny modernity : cultural theories, modern anxieties / edited by Jo Collins and John Jervis.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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- Description
- viii, 234 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- This title examines and interrogates the concept of the 'uncanny', and the cultural contexts which allow such experiences of disorientation and alienation.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Jo Collins and John Jervis -- Uncanny presences / John Jervis -- Night and the uncanny / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Uncanny reflections, modern illusions : sighting the modern optical uncanny / Tom Gunning -- As it happened...Borderline, the uncanny and the cosmopolitan / James Donald -- Access denied : memory and resistance in the contemporary ghost film / Scott Brewster -- The uncanny after Freud : the contemporary trauma subject and the fiction of Stephen King / Roger Luckhurst -- "Neurotic men" and a spectral woman : Freud, Jung and Sabina Spielrein / Jo Collins -- The urban uncanny : the city, the subject, and ghostly modernity / Julian Wolfreys -- Profane illuminations, delicate and mysterious flames : mass culture and uncanny gnosis / Michael Saler -- Terrorism and the uncanny, or, the caves of Tora-Bora / David Punter -- "On the psychology of the uncanny" (1906) : Ernst Jentsch / translated by Roy Sellars.
- ISBN
- 0230517714
- 9780230517714
- 9780230582828
- 0230582826
- LCCN
- 2008000186
- OCLC
- ocn191009652
- 191009652
- SCSB-1477804
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library