Beschreibung
The book focuses on the uncanny in the domestic space of Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction. Providing a psychoanalytic reading of selected works it aims to examine the image of the house in Bowen’s prose and to analyse its uncanniness in relation to the characters’ identity.
Autorenportrait
Olena Lytovka has a PhD in British Literature. She is the president of Interdisciplinary Research Foundation. She researches European modernist literature, time and space representations in fiction, psychoanalysis and feminist literary criticism. Her recent publications focus on the uncanny, dreams, memory and trauma.
Inhalt
Contents: The uncanny – Elizabeth Bowen – Modernist fiction – Big House fiction – Domestic space – Ghostly temporality – Trauma and identity disintegration, the place of memory and memory of place.
