Chronotopes of the Uncanny(English, Electronic book text, Eckhard Petra)

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Chronotopes of the Uncanny(English, Electronic book text, Eckhard Petra) is written by Eckhard Petra and published by De Gruyter. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3839418410 (ISBN 10) and 9783839418413 (ISBN 13).

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 Glass" and Toni Morrison's "Jazz" - show that the uncanny has developed into a crucial trope to delineate personal and collective fears that are often grounded on the postmodern disruption of spatio-temporal continuities and coherences.