| Description |
viii, 234 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jo Collins and John Jervis -- Uncanny presences / John Jervis -- Night and the uncanny / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Uncanny reflections, modern illusions : sighting the modern optical uncanny / Tom Gunning -- As it happened...Borderline, the uncanny and the cosmopolitan / James Donald -- Access denied : memory and resistance in the contemporary ghost film / Scott Brewster -- The uncanny after Freud : the contemporary trauma subject and the fiction of Stephen King / Roger Luckhurst -- "Neurotic men" and a spectral woman : Freud, Jung and Sabina Spielrein / Jo Collins -- The urban uncanny : the city, the subject, and ghostly modernity / Julian Wolfreys -- Profane illuminations, delicate and mysterious flames : mass culture and uncanny gnosis / Michael Saler -- Terrorism and the uncanny, or, the caves of Tora-Bora / David Punter -- "On the psychology of the uncanny" (1906) : Ernst Jentsch / translated by Roy Sellars |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Psychology.
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Experience.
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Supernatural.
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Culture -- Psychological aspects.
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Postmodernism -- Psychological aspects.
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| Author |
Collins, Jo, 1978-
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Jervis, John, 1946-
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| LC no. |
2008000186 |
| ISBN |
0230517714 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780230517714 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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