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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823874103321

Autore

Castricano Carla Jodey <1947->

Titolo

Gothic metaphysics : from alchemy to the Anthropocene / / Jodey Castricano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, England : , : University of Wales Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9781786837967

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 pages)

Collana

Gothic literary studies

Disciplina

809.3876

Soggetti

Gothic fiction (Literary genre)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Gothic Metaphysics: An Introduction -- 2 Occult Subjects: Parapsychology and the Foreign Body in Psychoanalysis -- 3 There is No Occult-free Zone: Transgenerational Emergence -- 4 An Other-valued Reality: Animism and Literature -- 5 Ghost Dance -- 6 Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and the Strange Question of Trans-subjectivity -- 7 Learning to Talk with Ghosts: Canadian Gothic and the Poetics of Haunting in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach -- 8 EcoGothic and the Anthropocene: The Ecological Subject -- 9 Afterwor(l)ds: All my Relations -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

Gothic Metaphysics is a radical departure from Freudian-centred criticism of Gothic literature.