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Beyond the uncanny: Shirley Jackson’s poetics of alienation
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 217-237, August 2022., 2022 Abstract Shirley Jackson is one of the most important authors of the uncanny of the twentieth century. Forgotten after her death in 1965, she is currently being rediscovered. This paper attributes her mastery to the depiction and evocation of extreme mental states, especially alienation and estrangement from oneself.
Dominic Angeloch
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E-REA, 2016 Edward Prendick, the protagonist and narrator of The Island of Dr Moreau, embarks on a hazardous and terrifying crossing (between England and an unknown Pacific island) that will lead to other types of crossings – biological, taxonomical, psychological ...
Françoise DUPEYRON-LAFAY
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Haunted childhood in Charlotte Bronte's Villette [PDF]
, 2002 In Villette, the obvious fakeness of the phantom robs it of uncanny status, reducing it to a form of narrative decoy which deflects attention away from what are consistently described as unheimlich in the novel: children and childhood.
Armitt, Lucie
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Carceral spectres: Hyperincarceration and the haunting of Aboriginal life
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue S1, Page 35-45, August 2022., 2022 Abstract Drawing on recent participant observation‐based data from the Northern Territory's Victoria River region, I propose that the coercive and custodial arms of the settler state are predominant features of, and constant and permanent forces of rupture in, remote Aboriginal life.
Patrick Horton
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Chauvier "unheimlich". Du langage à double foyer
Versants, 2022 L’oeuvre d’Éric Chauvier met régulièrement en exergue l’anomalie et le sentiment de trouble comme déclencheurs d’une pensée et d’une écriture, qu’elles soient anthropologiques ou littéraires.
Sophie Jaussi
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Reconsidering Freud’s Uncanny: The Coppola Perspective
Humanities, 2023 This essay reconsiders the Freudian notion of the Uncanny/Unheimlich by focusing on the attempt of the ego to project and maintain a coherent and consistent view of the world and of itself—an attempt that is intrinsically subverted by the very process of
Samuel Weber
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Styling the Future. A philosophical account of scenarios & design [PDF]
, 2015 Since the end of the 1980s – the Decade of Style (Mort, 1996) – the value of style in design has fallen. Recent times (Whicher et al., 2015) see a focus on style as a sign of design’s immaturity, while a more mature design should be attending to process,
Brassett, Jamie, O'Reilly, John
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Brass Art: A house within a house within a house within a house [PDF]
, 2014 Performances from Brass Art (Lewis, Mojsiewicz, Pettican), captured at the Freud Museum, London, using Kinect laser scanning and Processing, reveal an intimate response to spaces and technologies.
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Revista Linguagem em Pauta, 2023 Trata-se de discutir as dimensões estético-filosóficas no texto unheimlich de Freud a partir da experiência do indiscernível que o texto propicia. Defendemos que o texto unheimlich contém uma perspectiva existencial dissonante do arcabouço teórico ...
Leilane Andreoni, Rodrigo Gonsalves
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Review of: Annmarie Drury, Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Hardback. Pp. viii + 293 [PDF]
, 2017 No abstract ...
Williams, Rhian
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