Uncanny modernity : cultural theories, modern anxieties /

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Other Authors: Collins, Jo, 1978-, Jervis, John, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Table of 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.