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- Title
Stories, Spectres, Screens.
- Authors
Botting, Fred
- Abstract
The ghost story plots an occluded continuity between modernist and postmodernist forms of short fiction, its movement displaying, within dominant literary traditions, the defamiliarising effects associated with the uncanny: in modernism, it can ally itself with the upsetting of realist models, with subjective interruptions, fragmentary and ephemeral effects, with manifestations of consciousness dis- and re-embodied and a growing sense of insubstantiality; in postmodernism it is more intimately bound up with a pervasive experience of a "general uncanny", of a mediatised absorption into a life of images and screens. Tracing this movement, from the "phantasmagoreality" of Poe's short fiction to Angela Carter's playful accounts of Poe, sexuality, spectrality and cinema, this essay works through the very different engagements of Virginia Woolf and May Sinclair with the effects of writing, haunting and the uncanny.
- Subjects
FICTION; POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy); MODERNISM (Literature); PHANTASMAGORIA; CARTER, Angela, 1940-1992; WOOLF, Virginia, 1882-1941; COMPOSITION (Language arts)
- Publication
Postmodern Studies, 2012, Vol 48, p99
- ISSN
0923-0483
- Publication type
Essay