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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Journal of the Short Story in English
2008
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openedition-oai:revues.org:jsse_511 en https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/511 2008-09-15T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/hb3e https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Fitz-James O'Brien's 'The Lost Room': Not To Have and Not To Be Journal of the Short Story in English Presses universitaires de Rennes info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1969-6108 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0294-0442 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse Lepaludier, Laurent 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. Fitz-James O’brien naquit et vécut en Irlande (1828-1852) et émigra en 1852 en Amérique où il devint l’auteur d’histoires d’horreur le plus important de la décennie qui suivit la mort d’Edgar Allen Poe. “ La Chambre perdue ” fut publiée en 1858. L’article est une étude du rôle joué par la chambre et les objets dans cette nouvelle fantastique. A partir de l’hypothèse selon laquelle non seulement l’expérience du protagoniste mais aussi, par la description, sa subjectivité, sont reliées aux objets, il apparaît que l’esthétique du fantastique façonne les relations entre sujet et objets d’une manière particulière. Après une analyse des modes de relation du protagoniste avec les objets dans un contexte de vraisemblance, les ruptures et liens troublants introduits par le mode fantastique sont examinés et la théorie psychanalytique convoquée pour expliquer le pouvoir étrange des objets. |
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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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