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Spurious ghosts
The fantastic tales of Vernon Lee
Mary Patricia Kane- Edizione: Gennaio 2004
- Collana: Lingue e Letterature Carocci
- ISBN: 9788843028566
- Pagine: 128
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In breve
Spurious Ghosts explores the postmodern resonance of the narrative of Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935) by scrutinising the interconnectedness of her art historical writings and her tales of the fantastic. Focusing on the areas in which her narrative participates in the Nietzschean view of history, central to both the new historicism and much of the work of Foucault, these readings argue far a reconsideration of Lee's extremely original, and often iconoclastic, 'ghost' stories.
The echoes of E. T. A. Hoffmann that reverberate throughout these tales are read as part of a haunted discourse of the fantastic that goes tram Freud to Lacan and finally to H lène Cixous. These readings attempt to reintegrate Lee's voice into that discourse of spectral presences by demonstrating how her fantastic narrative engages in a continuous meditation on the arbitrary nature of the dividing lines between the self and the other.
Spurious Ghosts explores the postmodern resonance of the narrative of Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935) by scrutinising the interconnectedness of her art historical writings and her tales of the fantastic. Focusing on the areas in which her narrative participates in the Nietzschean view of history, central to both the new historicism and much of the work of Foucault, these readings argue far a reconsideration of Lee's extremely original, and often iconoclastic, 'ghost' stories.
The echoes of E. T. A. Hoffmann that reverberate throughout these tales are read as part of a haunted discourse of the fantastic that goes tram Freud to Lacan and finally to H lène Cixous. These readings attempt to reintegrate Lee's voice into that discourse of spectral presences by demonstrating how her fantastic narrative engages in a continuous meditation on the arbitrary nature of the dividing lines between the self and the other.
Mary Patricia Kane
Teaches English at the Università degli Studi “Gabriele d’Annunzio” in Pescara, Italy. She co-edited the volume Katherine Mansfield: The Voyage Out (2000) and has written numerous articles and reviews on late nineteenth and early twentieth century British and American literature.