Gothic hauntings: melancholy crypts and textual ghosts
Auteur :
Berthin, Christine
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9780230237872
Date de publication :
9 avr. 2010
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.