Uncanny modernity: cultural theories, modern anxieties/

Other Authors: Collins, Jo ,, Jervis, John ,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, [c2008]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jo Collins and John Jervis
  • 1. Uncanny presences / John Jervis
  • 2. Night and the uncanny / Elisabeth Bronfen
  • 3. Uncanny reflections, modern illusions : sighting the modern optical uncanny / Tom Gunning
  • 4. As it happened...Borderline, the uncanny and the cosmopolitan / James Donald
  • 5. Access denied : memory and resistance in the contemporary ghost film / Scott Brewster
  • 6. The uncanny after Freud : the contemporary trauma subject and the fiction of Stephen King / Roger Luckhurst
  • 7. "Neurotic men" and a spectral woman : Freud, Jung and Sabina Spielrein / Jo Collins
  • 8. The urban uncanny : the city, the subject, and ghostly modernity / Julian Wolfreys
  • 9. Profane illuminations, delicate and mysterious flames : mass culture and uncanny gnosis / Michael Saler
  • 10. Terrorism and the uncanny, or, the caves of Tora-Bora / David Punter
  • 11. "On the psychology of the uncanny" (1906) : Ernst Jentsch / translated by Roy Sellars.