Uncanny modernity [electronic resource] : cultural theories, modern anxieties / edited by Jo Collins and John Jervis.

The uncanny is an experience of disorientation, of something disturbing, so that our ordinary world seems suddenly strange, eerie. We ask - where does the uncanny come from? Why has it become a favourite figure for our simultaneous experience of the present as homeless and the past as haunting? And...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors:	Collins, Jo, 1978- (Editor), Jervis, John, 1946- (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:	Psychology. Experience. Supernatural. Culture > Psychological aspects. Postmodernism > Psychological aspects. Criticism, interpretation, etc.