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Uncanny Modernity : Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties /

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This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern self-identity, just as the latter may themselves be implicated...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Collins, Jo (Editor), Jervis, John (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Literature.
Cultural Theory.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
General Psychology.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Literature > History and criticism.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Psychology.
Electronic books.
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Summary:This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern self-identity, just as the latter may themselves be implicated in the production of these experiences as uncanny.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 234 pages)
ISBN:9780230582828
DOI:10.1057/9780230582828