The queer uncanny : new perspectives on the gothic / / Paulina Palmer
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| Autore: |
Palmer Paulina
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| Titolo: |
The queer uncanny : new perspectives on the gothic / / Paulina Palmer
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| Pubblicazione: | Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2012 |
| ©2012 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | [vi], 232 p. ; ; 22 cm |
| 1 online resource (242 p.) | |
| Disciplina: | 823.03 |
| Soggetto topico: | English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
| English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism | |
| Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature | |
| Gay people in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preface; Introduction: Queering the Uncanny; Secrets and their Disclosure; Queer Spectrality; Place and Space; Monstrous Others; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic investigates the diverse roles that the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud, Helene Cixous and other theorists, plays in representing lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean fiction published 1980-2007. Novels by Christopher Bram, Alan Hollinghurst, Randall Kenan, Shani Mootoo, James Purdy, Sarah Schulman, Ali Smith, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson and other writers are discussed in the context of queer theory and gothic critical writing. The notion of the uncanny as ' |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The queer uncanny |
| ISBN: | 1-299-20112-1 |
| 0-7083-2460-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790197603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Gothic literary studies.