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Book Synopsis
This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. -- .

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of illustrations
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
The uncanny: a bibliography

The Uncanny

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 13 February 2003
      ISBN-13 9780719055614
      978-0719055614
      ISBN-10 071905561X
      Also in:
      ELT & Literary Studies Literary theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. -- .

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Abbreviations
      List of illustrations
      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
      The uncanny: a bibliography

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