Fitz-James O'Brien's 'The Lost Room': Not To Have and Not To Be
Fitz-James O'Brien was born and lived in Ireland (1828-1852) and emigrated in 1852 to America, where he became the leading writer of horror stories in the decade following the death of Edgar Allen Poe. “The Lost Room” was published in 1858.The paper aims at studying the role that the room and t...
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2008
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | Fitz-James O'Brien was born and lived in Ireland (1828-1852) and emigrated in 1852 to America, where he became the leading writer of horror stories in the decade following the death of Edgar Allen Poe. “The Lost Room” was published in 1858.The paper aims at studying the role that the room and the objects play in this fantasy. Starting from the hypothesis that not only the protagonist’s experience is related to them but that, through description, his subjectivity connects with them, it appears that the aesthetics of fantasy shapes the relations between subject and objects in a particular way. After analysing the protagonist’s modes of relating with objects in the context of verisimilitude, the troubling connections and disconnections between subject and object introduced by fantasy are examined and psychoanalytic theory is used to explain the uncanny power of objects. |
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