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Gothic Hauntings: Melancholy Crypts and Textual Ghosts
Christine Berthin
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Description for Gothic Hauntings: Melancholy Crypts and Textual Ghosts
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230237872
SKU
V9780230237872
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99-15
About Christine Berthin
CHRISTINE BERTHIN is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre, France. She has taught Gothic, and Romantic fiction at UCSC and at the University of Orléans. She has also published extensively on P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats and the British Gothic tradition.
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