Chronotopes of the Uncanny : : Time and Space in Postmodern New York Novels. Paul Auster's »City of Glass« and Toni Morrison's »Jazz« / / Petra Eckhard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Eckhard, Petra,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Lettre
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Part One: Orientations --; The Uncanny: Towards a Definition --; Chronotopoetics --; Part Two: Chronotopes of the Uncanny --; Uncanny Architextures: Paul Auster’s City of Glass --; Haunted Harlem: Toni Morrison’s Jazz --; Conclusion --; Works Cited
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839418413; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110352856; 9783110370744
• DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839418413?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Petra Eckhard.

Using the theoretical frameworks of Freud, Todorov, and Bahktin, this book explores how American writers of the late 20th century have translated the psychoanalytical concept of »the uncanny« into their novelistic discourses. The two texts under scrutiny - Paul Auster's »City of Glass« and Toni Morrison's »Jazz« - show that the uncanny has developed into a crucial trope to delineate personal and collective fears that are often grounded on the postmodern disruption of spatio-temporal continuities and coherences.