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 (S1(Bthe uncanny(S0(B into their novelistic discourses. The two texts under scrutiny - Paul Auster's (S1(BCity of Glass(S0(B and Toni Morrison's (S1(BJazz(S0(B - 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.
| ISBN: | 9783837618419 |
| Publication date: | 15th July 2011 |
| Author: | Petra Eckhard |
| Publisher: | Transcript an imprint of transcript Verlag |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 206 pages |
| Series: | Lettre |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Cultural studies Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Human geography |