Trauma and the Uncanny in Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia" and "The Fall of the House of Usher"
As a disorder of memory and time, trauma implies a crisis of representation, of history and truth. It remains in the mind like an intruder or a ghost, foregrounding the disjunction between the present and a primary experience of the past that can never be captured. Like trauma, the uncanny implies h...
| Veröffentlicht in: | The Edgar Allan Poe Review. - Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. - 17(2016), 2, Seite 178-192 |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | The Edgar Allan Poe Review |
| Schlagworte: | trauma uncanny Gothic memory origins Arts Behavioral sciences Social sciences History |