This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb t

This title examines and interrogates the concept of the 'uncanny', and the cultural contexts which allow such experiences of disorientation and alienation.

Exploring the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city, this post colonial study addresses the questions of modernity and s

Using the theoretical frameworks of Freud, Todorov, and Bahktin, this book explores how American writers of the late 20th century have translated the psychoanal

This book argues for a renewed understanding of the fundamentally uncanny quality of the medium of photography. It especially makes the case for the capacity of