Hauntology: The Presence of the Past in Twenty-First Century English Literature

ISBN-13: 9783319749679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 119 str.

Katy Shaw

Opis

This Pivot explores a range of contemporary English literatures - from the poetry of Simon Armitage and the drama of Jez Butterworth, to the fiction of Zadie Smith and the stories of David Peace - that collectively unite to represent a twenty-first century world full of specters, reminiscence and representations of spectral encounters.

Spis treści

1. ‘The logic of haunting’: Introduction.

2. “The ghosts in my head, the ghosts on the street’: Hauntology and the Novel.

3. ‘The past never dies’: Hauntology and Drama.

4. ‘Intertextuality as Haunt’: Hauntology and Poetry.

5. ‘I’ll be right back’: Hauntology and Cotemporary Cinema.

6. ‘Do you ever get the feeling you’ve been here before?’: Sonic Hauntology.

7. Uncanny Architecture and Post-Industrial Urbex: Hauntology & Architecture.

8. ‘Its happening all over again’: Conclusion.- Bibliography.

O autorze

Katy Shaw is Professor of Contemporary Writings at Northumbria University, UK and editor of the journal C21 Literature: journal of 21st-century writings.