Uncanny modernity : cultural theories, modern anxieties / edited by Jo Collins and John Jervis.

Other author Collins, Jo, 1978-
Other author Jervis, John, 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Descriptionviii, 234 pages ; 23 cm
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008000186
ISBN0230517714 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780230517714 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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