Gothic Hauntings Melancholy Crypts and Textual Ghosts
Description
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismSemiotics & TheoryPoetryHistorySocial HistorySocial ScienceAnthropologyCultural & SocialPhilosophyLanguageLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative
2010Book
Author(s)Christine Berthin
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230237872
LanguageEnglish
