The Uncanny: An Introduction
by Nicholas Royle
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Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of many acclaimed books, including Telepathy and Literature (1991) and The Uncanny (2003).
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- 2003
- Epigraph
- When life is over, we are taught to live. (Michel de Montaigne)
We Europeans confront a world of tremendous ruins. A few things are still towering, much looks decayed and uncanny, while most things already lie on the ... (show all)ground. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
An author's words are deeds. (Sigmund Freud)
We are all haunted houses. (H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]) - Dedication
- For Sebastian, Alexander and Elena
- First words
- Preface :
A preface is conventionally signed, dated, placed in a fashion that distinguishes it from the text that follows. Written at the end, it comes at the beginning.It appears to gather everything together, to give an... (show all) impression of order and mastery over what it prefaces. The genre of the preface is perhaps quite familiar. If so, it is also apt to become strange in the special sense that has interested me in these pages. - Quotations
- Ch. 6: Silence, solitude and...
- Did you say something?
- I heard a voice.
- In your head?
- No, in yours.
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature, Philosophy
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- 809.93353 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Literature displaying specific features, miscellaneous writings Literature displaying other aspects Literature dealing with specific themes and subjects Humanity Human psychological and moral qualities
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- PN49 .R75 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Theory. Philosophy. Esthetics
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