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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. 'The logic of haunting': Introduction
• 2. "The ghosts in my head, the ghosts on the street': Hauntology and the Novel
• 3. 'The past never dies': Hauntology and Drama
• 4. 'Intertextuality as Haunt': Hauntology and Poetry
• 5. 'I'll be right back': Hauntology and Cotemporary Cinema
• 6. 'Do you ever get the feeling you've been here before?': Sonic Hauntology
• 7. Uncanny Architecture and Post-Industrial Urbex: Hauntology & Architecture
• 8. 'Its happening all over again': Conclusion
• Bibliography.