Chronotopes of the uncanny : time and space in postmodern New York novels : Paul Auster's "City of Glass" and Toni Morrison's "Jazz" /

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Using the theoretical frameworks of Freud, Todorov, and Bahktin, this book explores how American writers of the late 20th century have translated the psychoanalytical concept of "the uncanny" into their novelistic discourses. The two texts under scrutiny - Paul Auster's "City of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Eckhard, Petra (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Röckenhaus, Kordula (Cover designer)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Alemán
Published: Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript, 2011.
Series:Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
Subjects:
American fiction > History and criticism.
Space and time in literature.
American fiction > Themes, motives.
Roman américain > Thèmes, motifs.
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
American fiction > Themes, motives
American literature
Space and time in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover Chronotopes of the Uncanny; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE: ORIENTATIONS; The Uncanny: Towards a Definition; Freud; Todorov; Chronotopoetics; Schlosszeit; Stadtzeit; PART TWO: CHRONOTOPES OF THE UNCANNY; Uncanny Architextures: Paul Auster's City of Glass; The Labyrinthine Subject; Uncanny Verticality; Ghostly Glass; Rhetoric and Ruins; Quinn's Camera Obscura; The Uncanny Comic; Haunted Harlem: Toni Morrison's Jazz; Rural Pasts, Urban Presents; Jazz Space; Memory Tracks and Sidewalk Cracks; Black Interiors; The Uncanny Voice; Conclusion; Works Cited.

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