This article examines the representations of the supernatural in Shakespeare's Macbeth, which served as a significant source for later horror literature. It shows that the play's rhetoric of horror and of the supernatural ...

The world of Carroll's Wonderland narratives, in which language tests its own limits, overlaps with Wittgenstein's world of counterexample, and such convergence becomes most overt in Wittgenstein's example of a nonsensical ...

This article critiques the way Freud associates the uncanny with the idea of repression. The rhetoric he uses in the essay destabilizes his effort to place it in the depths of the psyche especially as he examines dictionary ...

This essay analyzes key aspects of Heidegger's critique of the picture (Bild) based on an objection to world-pictures as well as a negative understanding of two other related concepts: Gestell and Vorstellen (representation). ...

The most interesting example of all the physical images that Sartre examines in L'Imaginaire concerns a female performers (Franconay's) imitation of a male performer (Chevalier). The example is a unique instance in which ...

This article attempts to reinstate the inherent rigor of image as a literary term by addressing the theoretical issues related to the image that W. J. T. Mitchell discusses in his encyclopedia entry and his articles on the ...

This study of Polidori's story, The Vampyre, written at the beginning of the 19th century aims at relocating the social relevance of both the story and Gothic literature in the contentious zone between the private and ...

The essay deals with the bifurcated representation of time in Dracula that is split into a modern and pre-modern time. In Stoker's novel, the time of Western modernity and the modern nation depends on the repression of the ...