The Uncanny House in Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction

by Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim

★★★★☆
3.8 (619)

US$23.85

15% OFF CODE: SAVE15

Description

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. In her book, Olena Lytovka focuses on an important aspect of Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction – the motif of the uncanny house. By applying the Freudian notion of the unheimlich to the analysis of selected novels and short stories, Lytovka