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Gothic Hauntings : Melancholy Crypts and Textual Ghosts /

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What is buried in the crypts of the Gothic? Building on psychoanalytic research on haunting, cryptonymy and melancholy, as well as on French philosophies of language, this book explores how haunting is not just a Gothic narrative device but the symptom of an impossibility of representation and of an...

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Main Author: Berthin, Christine (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Subjects:
Literature.
Cultural History.
Cultural Studies.
Literary Theory.
Philosophy of Language.
Poetry and Poetics.
Civilization > History.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Literature > Philosophy.
Poetry.
Popular culture > Study and teaching.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:What is buried in the crypts of the Gothic? Building on psychoanalytic research on haunting, cryptonymy and melancholy, as well as on French philosophies of language, this book explores how haunting is not just a Gothic narrative device but the symptom of an impossibility of representation and of an irreparable loss at the heart of language.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 188 pages)
ISBN:9780230275126
DOI:10.1057/9780230275126