The Uncanniness of Form

Abstract This article is concerned with Carl Jonas Love Almqvist’s Amorina from 1839 and aims to exemplify how its formal organization relates to the Freudian uncanny. The convergence of the formal and the uncanny is explored in relation to the formalist concept of defamiliarization. I argue that th...

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Main Author: Boris Lazic
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Scandinavian University Press/Universitetsforlaget 2017-01-01
Series:Edda
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Online Access:https://www.idunn.no/edda/2017/02/the_uncanniness_of_form