On spectrality
Subtitle: fantasies of redemption in the Western canon
By: David Ratmoko.
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Guilt.; Redemption.; Guilt in literature.; Redemption in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Pt. 1. Spectral history of guilt in Law; value: 1. Modernity's guilt by default; value: 2. The spectre of Roman law; value: 3. Spectral violence in justifying law; value: Pt. 2. Historical truth of spectrality; value: 1. Freud's Moses and the progress of spectrality; value: 2. Foreclosure and the return of the pharaoh; value: 3. For a Freudian model of history; value: Pt. 3. Spectrality in the Christian and tragic era; value: 1. Ghostly transfigurations in Christianity; value: 2. Spectral performance of Greek tragedy; value: Pt. 4. Phantom formations after the Renaissance; value: 1. Shakespeare's stage ghost; value: 2. From the evil demon to Cartesian certitude; value: 3. Epic resources of Pandemonium; value: IV. Conversion into capital : return on investment.