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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The uncanny valley hypothesis, proposed already in the 1970s, suggests that almost but not fully humanlike artificial characters will trigger a profound sense of unease.
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The Uncanny Robots of Pilot Pirx: Stanisław Lem’s Tales
Interlitteraria, 2016 There was a time when Stanisław Lem was the best sold and read writer in Poland (though he was even bigger in the Soviet Union and East Germany). His popularity steadily grew from the time of his debut and reached its apogee in the late nineteen-sixties.
Dominika Oramus
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Colonial Trauma in Márquez and Rushdie’s Magical Realism [PDF]
, 2015 Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children are hallmarks of the genre of magical realism. A typically problematic genre in terms of classification, this article looks at magical realism from a Freudian
Miller, Rachel
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Of Holes and Wounds: Postcolonial Trauma and the Gothic in Catherine Jinks’s The Road
ES Review, 2018 This paper analyses Catherine Jinks’s The Road (2004), a multi-protagonist novel, looking into the relationship between personal and historical forms of trauma in the context of postcolonial Australia and following Rothberg’s comparatist approach.
Bárbara Arizti Martín
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The Aesthetic Uncanny: Staging Dorian Gray [PDF]
, 2009 This article discusses my theatrical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2008). Freud's concept of the uncanny (1919) was treated as a purely aesthetic phenomenon and related to late nineteenth
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Enstranged Strangers: OOO, the Uncanny, and the Gothic
Open Philosophy, 2019 Exploring the links between Speculative Realism, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism, this article examines OOO’s entanglement with the ‘uncanny’. Reading OOO against three notable treatments of the concept - Sigmund Freud’s 1919 essay “The ‘Uncanny’”,
Bartholomew H.G.
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Night of the Unexpected: A Critique of the 'Uncanny ' and Its Apotheosis Within Cultural and Social Theory [PDF]
, 2012 This essay attempts a critical analysis of the boom in 'uncanny' theory. As the 'uncanny' has carved its image in cultural, political, sociological and aesthetic theory, there has been little attempt to challenge the notion that all critical work is or ...
ffytche, M
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The uncanny mediality of the photographic GIF
NECSUS, 2018 This article examines uncanny mediality in photographic GIFs by interrogating sources of this uncanniness and the logic informing its operation in particular examples.
Arild Fetveit
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Spectral—Fragile—(Un)homely: The Haunting Presence of Francesca Woodman in the House and Space2 Series [PDF]
Avant, 2017 In the House and Space2 photographic series, Francesca Woodman captures the environments that may be considered disruptive; still, it is a female model—in her inconstant poses, always partially blurred or hidden—that holds the viewer’s attention.
Anna Kisiel
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, 2011 This paper argues that ephemera is a key instrument of cultural memory, marking the things intended to be forgotten. This important role means that when ephemera survives, whether accidentally or deliberately, it does so despite itself. These survivals,
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