Gothic Hauntings: Melancholy Crypts and Textual Ghosts

Berthin, Christine

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-04-09

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230237872

DOI: 10.1057/9780230275126

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 188