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Autore: | Connon Daisy |
Titolo: | Subjects not-at-home [[electronic resource] ] : forms of the uncanny in the contemporary French novel : Emmanuel Carrère, Marie NDiaye, Eugène Savitzkaya / / Daisy Connon |
Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam, : Editions Rodopi, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
Disciplina: | 843.91409 |
Soggetto topico: | Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis) |
French literature - Criticism, Textual | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Preliminary Material -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Das Unheimliche -- Extra-ordinary Homes -- De-familiarization -- A Narrative Ethics of the Unhomely -- General Conclusion -- Bibliography. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Subjects Not-at-home is the first book-length study of the concept of the uncanny ( Das Unheimliche ) in the context of French literature. It explores the ways in which certain contemporary French novelists are exploiting the themes, imagery and dynamics of the uncanny to generate a repertoire of narrative tactics for the portrayal of the chez soi . Through an analysis of nine novels by Marie NDiaye, Eugène Savitzkaya and Emmanuel Carrère, the author reveals a developing tendency within current writing to re-appropriate figures of the strange – the double, intellectual uncertainty, the fragmented body, the spectral, the haunted house – in order to represent the ‘familiar’ spaces of the home, the family, the self and the everyday. This problematic is situated with respect to tendencies in present-day French writing, with the uncanny being viewed as a particular approach to the contemporary novel’s inclination to privilege the site of the chez soi . Readings of the literary texts are informed by philosophical, psychoanalytic and literary reinterpretations of the Freudian uncanny, with an emphasis on the historical and contextual evolution of the concept itself. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Subjects not-at-home |
ISBN: | 1-282-72705-2 |
9786612727054 | |
90-420-3006-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809691703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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