The Uncanny in Language, Literature and Culture

Sarah Stollman, Charlie Jorge, Catherine Morris (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

237 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0529-8 (ISBN)

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In his attempts to define the uncanny, Sigmund Freud asserted that the concept is undoubtedly related to what is frightening, to what arouses dread and horror. Yet the sensation is prompted, simultaneously, by something familiar, establishing a sense of insecurity within the domestic, even within the walls of one's own home. This disturbance of the familiar further unsettles the sense of oneself. A resultant perturbed relationship between a person and their familiar world — the troubled sense of home and self-certainty — can be the result of a traumatic experience of loss, and of unresolved pasts resurfacing in the present. Memory traces are revised and interwoven with fresh experiences producing an uncanny effect. As "an externalization of consciousness", the uncanny becomes a meta-concept for modernity with its disintegration of time, space, and self. The papers in this book seek to explore the representations of the uncanny in language, literature, and culture, applying the origins of the concept to a range of ideas and works.

Sarah Stollman holds a PhD from the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Her thesis considers the role of the cinematic magical object in poetic realist, surrealist and magical realist film fiction. Stollman is a production designer, artist and educator. Charlie Jorge lectures on 18th century English literature at the University of the Balearic Islands. He specialises in 18th and 19th century Gothic literature, focusing on Irish Gothic authors and literary production, especially on the works of Charles Maturin. His work has featured in journals such as Caliban and Imaginaries.Catherine Morris has a PhD in English from Kingston University, London, UK, with a combined creative and critical thesis considering the use of dialect as unheimlich in British writing. She was awarded the Faber and Faber MA prize in 2010, for her dissertation on identity and consciousness in the novel.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-0364-0529-X / 103640529X
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0529-8 / 9781036405298
Zustand	Neuware