Gothic Hauntings
Author | : Christine Berthin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2010-04-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230275126 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230275125 |
Rating | : 4/5 (125 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Gothic Hauntings by : Christine Berthin
Download or read book Gothic Hauntings written by Christine Berthin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.