The book focuses on the uncanny in the domestic space of Elizabeth Bowen s fiction. Providing a psychoanalytic reading of selected works it aims to examine the image of the house in Bowen s prose and to analyse its uncanniness in relation to the characters identity.
In her book, Olena Lytovka focuses on an important aspect of Elizabeth Bowen s fiction the motif of the uncanny house. By applying the Freudian notion of the unheimlich to the analysis of selected novels and short stories, Lytovka demonstrates how the traumatic experience of loss is mirrored in the characters perception of the...

The book offers a thorough study of the literary tensions and two-world structure of the fantastic short stories by H. G. Wells (1866 1946). It exposes trickster games in the storytelling and pinpoints Wells s staple methods of artistic composition the mounting of various literary tensions built upon the body of traditional, dexterously combined genre elements and innovative topoi."