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The Uncanny Nicholas Royle

The Uncanny By Nicholas Royle

The Uncanny by Nicholas Royle


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Summary

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.

The Uncanny Summary

The Uncanny by Nicholas Royle

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. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's extraordinary essay of 1919, 'The Uncanny' (Das Unheimliche). As a ghostly feeling and concept, however, the uncanny has a complex history going back to at least the Enlightenment. Royle offers a detailed account of the emergence of the uncanny, together with a series of close readings of different aspects of the topic. Following a major introductory historical and critical overview, there are chapters on literature, teaching, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, film, the death drive, deja vu, silence, solitude and darkness, the fear of being buried alive, the double, ghosts, cannibalism, telepathy, madness and religion.

The Uncanny Reviews


'Without doubt the outstanding book in critical and cultural theory published in 2003' -- Martin McQuillan, Edtiro of The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, for the English Association


'This is a brilliant book, Royle's writing is astonishingly adventurous. The book is indispensible to any study of the uncanny and thus to any study of literature. A critical tour de force.' -- Textual Practice


'A playful, scholarly study. Densely and allusively argued, yet also full of pregnant one-liners. A fascinating and ambitious work.' -- The Guardian


'At last, a philosophical work that discusses ghosts and madness seriously. Royle, in a style that is warmly engaging right from the preface, speaks directly to the reader. For an academic book this is a hell of a page-turner. A compulsive book.' -- Pireandello.org.uk


About Nicholas Royle

Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex

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. Deja 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

Additional information

GOR009887691
9780719055614
B0092IZPYC
The Uncanny by Nicholas Royle
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Manchester University Press
2003-02-13
352
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