Chronotopes of the Uncanny

Zusammenfassung

Using the theoretical frameworks of Freud, Todorov, and Bahktin, this book explores how American writers of the late 20th century have translated the psychoanalytical concept of »the uncanny« into their novelistic discourses. The two texts under scrutiny – Paul Auster's »City of Glass« and Toni Morrison's »Jazz« – show that the uncanny has developed into a crucial trope to delineate personal and collective fears that are often grounded on the postmodern disruption of spatio-temporal continuities and coherences.

Schlagworte

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Bibliographische Angaben

Copyrightjahr

2014

ISBN-Print

978-3-8376-1841-9

ISBN-Online

978-3-8394-1841-3

Verlag

transcript, Bielefeld

Reihe

Lettre

Band

0

Sprache

Englisch

Seiten

206

Produkttyp

Monographie