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  The Uncanny (Paperback) By (author) Nicholas Royle

  

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  Short Description for The UncannyThe uncanny; described by Freud as a feeling of something as not only weird or mysterious; but also as strangely familiar, is the subject of this study. Royle offers a detailed historical account and examines different aspects of the topic, including deja vu, ghosts and telepathy.
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  • Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • Format: Paperback 352 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Theory | Literary Studies: General | Society & Culture: General | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Unexplained Phenomena / The Paranormal | Occult Studies
  • ISBN 13: 9780719055614 ISBN 10: 071905561X
  • Sales rank: 63,421

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Full description for The Uncanny

• Freud 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. The uncanny is 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. 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, cannabilism, telepathy and madness, as well as more 'applied' readings concerned, for example, with teaching, politics, film, and religion.