Writing the Uncanny 9781911585800, 9781911585817, 1911585800

From M.R. James to Shirley Jackson, the Uncanny has long provided fertile ground for writers – and recent years have see

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Writing the Uncanny
9781911585800, 9781911585817, 1911585800

We live at a critical moment in history, often called the »Anthropocene«, that is defined by unprecedented scales of unc

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The Queer Uncanny investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other the

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Gothic Music traces the sound of the Gothic from the eerie echoing footsteps that haunt gothic novels to the dark sounds

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Focusing on his personal day to day experiences of the “shelter-in-place” period during the first months of the coronavi

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Drawing on a broad theoretical range from speculative realism to feminist psychoanalysis and anti-colonialism, this book

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The book studies the cultural texts—fiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campa

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Focusing on two spaces of the imperial uncanny—the Baltic north/Finland and the Ukrainian south—Haunted Empire reconstru

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Although spectral Indians appear with startling frequency in US literary works, until now the implications of describing

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There are moments when things suddenly seem strange objects in the world lose their meaning, we feel like strangers to o

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