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The Uncanny

Nicholas Royle,  Rebecca Mortimer

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English
Manchester University Press
13 February 2003
Literary theory; Occult studies; Unexplained phenomena & the paranormal
This study is of the uncanny; an important concept for contemporary thinking and debate across a range of disciplines and discourses, including literature, film, architecture, cultural studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis and queer theory. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's essay of 1919, ""The Uncanny"" (Das Unheimliche). Where he was perhaps the first to foreground the distinctive nature of the uncanny as a feeling of something not simply weird or mysterious but, more specifically, as something strangely familiar. As a concept and a feeling, however, the uncanny has a complex history going back to at least the Enlightenment. Royle offers a detailed historical 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 the death drive, deja-vu, ""silence, solitude and darkness"", the fear of being buried alive, doubles, ghosts, cannibalism, telepathy and madness, as well as more ""applied"" readings concerned, for example, with teaching, politics, film and religion.
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Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   1
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   499g
ISBN:   9780719055614
ISBN 10:   071905561X
Pages:   352
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Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  ELT Advanced ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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 -- .

Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex

Reviews for The Uncanny

'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


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