...: it is uncanny to start a Postface in another lan- guage. But this whole volume is uncanny: strange, disquieting, stranger to itself. Among the authors gathered here, some may appear familiar because they have more circulation among us, as if their language were already part...

... (1902), Melville Davisson Post's The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason (1896), and Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne's The Wrong Box (1889) instruct the reader to regard detective fiction as a genre about the production of the corpse and the transnational economic systems that generated...

...Dan Sinykin This essay develops a poetics of microfinance through an attempt to account for Jhumpa Lahiri's strange mention of the Grameen Bank in the short story “Sexy” from her collection Interpreter of Maladies . It shows how Lahiri's allusion links the intimacy of simulated global space...

... Freudianism. Sex—or its repression—manifests in unlikely places until the libidinally trussed narrator finds everything horrific. However, this interpretative key cannot dispel an overwhelming strangeness. The novel's dread is not just psychological but phenomenological. Reading this effect via Graham...

... strangely recognizable language. —Nicholas Royle, The Uncanny At the midway point in David Lynch's neo-noir masterpiece Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), the two teenagers Jeffrey and Sandy meet at night across the street from a church, so Jeffrey can update Sandy about the horrific discoveries he has...

...- fication, takes center stage. This account provides crucial background for The Cipher. But it is not enough to explain the harsh intensity of the book and of Koja’s subsequent novels Bad Brains (1992), Skin (1993), and Strange Angels (1994). These books do indeed focus on “the individual physical...

... to notice a strange phenomenon. Art lovers, deprived of physical access to local galleries, were reproducing their favorite portraits by staging digital photographs of themselves in the guise of famous subjects: Frida Kahlo, Napoleon, the Girl with a Pearl Earring. In these playful re-creations, household...

... . Citations refer to the 2005 edition . ———. 2009 . “Weird Fiction.” In The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction , edited by Bould Mark , 510 – 17 . Oxford : Routledge . ———. 2011 . “Afterweird: The Efficacy of a Worm-Eaten Dictionary.” In The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark...

... this as evidence of ambivalence within the texts and nineteenth-century England about the Reform Bills. SHATTERED DIALS AND MUTE OBJECTS 77 Mad-houses are large and only too numerous; yet surely it is strange they are not larger, when we think of how many helpless wretches must...

... : Cornwall , 1982 . Stevens Jay . Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream . New York : Grove , 1987 . Stevenson Jack , Ed. Addicted: The Myth and Menace of Drugs in Film . Creation : 2000 . Stevenson R.L. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1886] . Ed...

... preoccupations. The ultimate inadequacy of the characters’ literary references and scientific knowledge is mirrored by the repeated claims of impotence by narrator Harry. The first paragraphs have already made clear that he anticipates reactions of “incredulity and scorn” upon releasing such a “strange...

... more complex and interesting ways than the other works in the Little House series. Prairie’s nostalgic home building and its interest in negotiating between categories of “strange” Native populations and “native” white settlers, among others, are direct engagements with major regionalist tropes...

... and difference, the familiar and the strange, the here and the elsewhere - is, as I have argued, characteristic of global modernity. (145-146) Clifford draws attention to Bronislaw Malinowski's prescription of balance between the "coefficient of weirdness" and the "coefficient of reality...

... individuals as at once unique beings and instances of kinds. If it does, then granting in advance the ordinariness of characters will mean missing something about how they really work. Against Wittgensteinian deflation, then, we might set another view of the simple and the strange. “A commodity,” Marx...

... to that Dichten as we know from Wittgenstein's other writings, is the understanding that the material of poetry—language—is inherently so "strange" that only the most rigorous of investigations can accommodate its power. In ordinary parlance, "literature" and "art" are vehicles for "saying" something...

..." of speculation. J. Hillis Miller discusses an important aspect of difficulty when he examines texts that demand interpretation because of what he calls "the terror or dread readers may experience when they confront a text which seems irreduc- ibly strange, inexplicable, perhaps even mad" (1985: 20).3...

... of utterly relinquishing its grasp upon the punitive, legal and juridical structures of sovereignty. Torture, we might say, falls under the sign of a strange enjoyment in Gothic romance, a sure source of pleasure which, conceptually much like Lacan's psychoanalytic notion of jouis- sance, is also...

... - and familial - underneath its superficial trappings of strangeness. The lost world does not present an alternative to reality; it reflects what reality has always known but forgotten. If science fiction, as Darko Suvin claims, estranges the familiar, the lost world novel familiarizes the strange.4...

... in the Making of Europe . Vol. 1 , The Century of Discovery , bk. 1 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Lawrence Bruce B. 1987 . “The City as Intellectual Center.” In Brand Lowry 1987 , 83 – 92 . Lieberman Victor B. 2003 . Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia...

... split the country into two twin nation-­states engaged in a civil war. Yet for many years critics saw the war as largely missing from the litera- ture of the time, as if too great a sorrow for words. Jonathan Arac (1989) notes that Matthiessen’s account in American Renaissance strangely...