The Uncanny

• Author(s): Nicholas Royle,
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Pages: 340
• ISBN_10: 0719055601
  ISBN_13: 9780719055607
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / LGBTQ , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Literary Criticism / Horror & Supernatural , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General , Body, Mind & Spirit / Witchcraft , Reference / Curiosities & Wonders ,

Description:... This study is of the uncanny; an important concept for contemporary thinking and debate across a range of disciplines and discourses, including literature, film, architecture, cultural studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis and queer theory. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's essay of 1919, The Uncanny (Das Unheimliche). Where he was perhaps the first to foreground the distinctive nature of the uncanny as a feeling of something not simply weird or mysterious but, more specifically, as something strangely familiar.