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This stimulating new book challenges Freud's definition of the
uncanny, prevalent in the study of Gothic and Romantic fiction, by
reviving the importance of uncertainity in the uncanny. Literary
criticism views the uncanny as an expression of the return of the
repressed. Falkenberg's expanded definition includes, but is not
limited to, the psychoanalytic and instead redefines the uncanny as
a cognitive and aesthetic phenomenon. Beyond offering a survey of
what David Punter has called « The Theory of the Uncanny, this
study places the uncanny in the context of the poetological and
philosophical background of the Romantic period. In close readings
of two stories that have stood at the center of the debate about
the uncanny--E.T.A. Hoffmann's « Sandman and Ludwig Tieck's « Blond
Eckbert--the author shows how these texts are constructed as
uncanny phenomena in themselves. The study traces fairytale
elements, framing techniques, and interdependencies between the
fictional; productions of the protagonists and their « dark fates
to expose how these texts confront the reader with paradoxical
decoding instructions. This expanded and revised uncanny not only
yields new readings of two classic German short stories, it also
leads to a better understanding of the cultural soil that nourished
the Romantic Movement.
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