| Description |
x, 340 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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: deconstruction reading politics -- 9. Inexplicable -- 10. Buried alive -- 11. Deja vu -- 12. The double -- 13. Chance encounter -- 14. Cannibalism: for starters -- 15. Manifestations of insanity: Hunger and contemporary fiction -- 16. A crowded after-life -- 17. To be announced -- 18. Mole -- 19. The 'telepathy effect': notes toward a reconsideration of narrative fiction -- 20. Phantom text -- 21. The private parts of Jesus Christ -- 22. Book end: deja vu (reprise) |
| Notes |
Based on papers at university conferences and seminars |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Literature -- Philosophy.
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Curiosities and wonders in literature.
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Supernatural in literature.
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| LC no. |
2002036940 |
| ISBN |
0415967023 alkaline paper |
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0415966620 paperback alkaline paper |
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