Gothic Hauntology Everyday Hauntings and Epistemological Desire
This book provides a theoretically informed account of Gothic Hauntology. It is distinctive foremost in two ways. It shows hauntology at work in modern as well as older gothic narratives and it has a unique focus on everyday gothic as well as everyday hauntology. The chapters perform a historical ci...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Palgrave Gothic
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1.Introduction: “Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!” Loss;Guilt;The Uncanny;Derridean Hauntology;Recent Hauntology Studies;Outline of the chapters
- 2. “Penelope was not a phantom”: Everyday Hauntology in Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood:Margaret Atwood, “Death by Landscape”Surfacing
- 3. “His eye spoke less than his lip”: Hauntology, Vampires and the Trace of the Animal in John Polidori’s The Vampyre, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling and Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos.;Let the Right One In;Fledgling;Cronos
- 4. “Nothing is but what is not”: Spectral Temporality and Hauntology in Selected Works by Edgar Allan Poe;“The Tell-Tale Heart”;“The Imp of the Perverse”;“The Black Cat”;“The Gold Bug"
- 5. “[T]he grey pool and its blank haunted edge”: The Hauntology of Indeterminacy in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw
- 6. “Light is dark and dark is light”: H. P. Lovecraft and Hauntology as Epistemological Desire
- “The Lurking Fear”;“The Music of Erich Zann”;“The Haunter of the Dark”;The Believing Atheist
- 7. “What she had seen was final”: Everyday Hauntology, the Threat of Male Violence and the Power of Fiction in Alice Munro’s “Free Radicals”, “Runaway” and “Passion”;“Free Radicals”;“Runaway”;“Passion”
- 8. Concluding Remarks: “I can feel my lost child surfacing within me”