Hauntology The Presence of the Past in Twenty-First Century English Literature /

• Main Author: Shaw, Katy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Movement (Philosophy).; Literary Theory.; Contemporary Literature.; Philosophical Traditions.

Post-millennial writings function as a useful prism through which we can understand contemporary English culture and its compulsion to revisit the immediate past. The critical practice of hauntology turns to the past in order to make sense of the present, to understand how we got to this place and h...