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Beyond reason: revising the place of literature in theories of the uncanny
The psychoanalytic fixation in seeking to validate 'the real' has long overlooked various key components in theories of the uncanny as they relate to literature. The goal of the present study is to reaffirm the roles of uncertainty, ambiguity, and the purposeful lack of closure in the experience of...
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| author | Anderson, Wesley |
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| description | The psychoanalytic fixation in seeking to validate 'the real' has long overlooked various key components in theories of the uncanny as they relate to literature. The goal of the present study is to reaffirm the roles of uncertainty, ambiguity, and the purposeful lack of closure in the experience of the uncanny, features which will come to form an integral part of a new theory. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/22935 Beyond reason: revising the place of literature in theories of the uncanny Anderson, Wesley Higgins, John English in Literature and Modernity The psychoanalytic fixation in seeking to validate 'the real' has long overlooked various key components in theories of the uncanny as they relate to literature. The goal of the present study is to reaffirm the roles of uncertainty, ambiguity, and the purposeful lack of closure in the experience of the uncanny, features which will come to form an integral part of a new theory. 2017-01-23T12:01:55Z 2017-01-23T12:01:55Z 2016 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22935 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Beyond reason: revising the place of literature in theories of the uncanny |
| title_full | Beyond reason: revising the place of literature in theories of the uncanny |
| title_fullStr | Beyond reason: revising the place of literature in theories of the uncanny |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond reason: revising the place of literature in theories of the uncanny |
| title_short | Beyond reason: revising the place of literature in theories of the uncanny |
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| topic | English in Literature and Modernity |
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