Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov

Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9780748636471
ISBN-13 : 0748636471
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Download or read book Figurations of Exile in Hitchcock and Nabokov written by Barbara Straumann and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes an important contribution to cultural analysis by opening up the work of two canonical authors to issues of exile and migration. Barbara Straumann's close reading of selected films and literary texts focuses on Speak, Memory, Lolita, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Suspicion, North by Northwest and Shadow of a Doubt and explores the connections between language, imagination and exile. Invoking psychoanalysis as the principal discourse of dislocation, the book not only uses concepts such as 'screen memory', 'family romance', 'fantasy' and 'the uncanny' as hermeneutic foils, it also argues that, in their own ways, the arch-parodists Hitchcock and Nabokov are remarkably in tune with the images and tropes developed by Freud.


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