Uncanny Modernity

Uncanny Modernity
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9780230582828
ISBN-13 : 0230582826
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Download or read book Uncanny Modernity written by Jo Collins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern self-identity, just as the latter may themselves be implicated in the production of these experiences as uncanny.


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