Gothic hauntings
Subtitle: melancholy crypts and textual ghosts
By: Christine Berthin.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780230237872
Subjects: Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- History and criticism; Horror tales, English -- History and criticism; Ghosts in literature; Metaphor in literature; Symbolism in literature; Psychoanalysis in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Transgenerational haunting: the subject as other; title: Discourse and its other: the figural and the real; title: Gothic as poetics; title: The melancholy crypt of Frankenstein; title: Secretions and secretaries: the secret of Dracula; title: The raising of the dead: art and melancholy.