Le Poids de l’ombre
Borrowing its paradoxical title from Buci-Glucksman, this paper endeavors to think of the shadow in its weighty physicality, an evanescent materiality intimately linked to death. Inspired by a lesser-known short story « The Shadow » by E. A. Poe, it moves on to analyze ten famous tales by the same a...
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| description | Borrowing its paradoxical title from Buci-Glucksman, this paper endeavors to think of the shadow in its weighty physicality, an evanescent materiality intimately linked to death. Inspired by a lesser-known short story « The Shadow » by E. A. Poe, it moves on to analyze ten famous tales by the same author to demonstrate that the shadow is always the perceptible print of what it follows, thus performing an inversion of the arrow of time and of logic itself that heralds the future Freudian discovery of Nachtraglichkeit (unsatisfyingly translated by « deferred action »). Between pathological melancholy and death drive, Gothic literature thus invites us to conceive the shadow as naturally following the trauma occasioned by loss but also as adumbrating the subject’s own dissolution. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b370fce7917247c3a404a8c52cdec4182022-12-21T22:39:01ZengUniversité Toulouse - Jean JaurèsMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone2108-65592013-10-01810.4000/miranda.3491Le Poids de l’ombreMarc AmfrevilleBorrowing its paradoxical title from Buci-Glucksman, this paper endeavors to think of the shadow in its weighty physicality, an evanescent materiality intimately linked to death. Inspired by a lesser-known short story « The Shadow » by E. A. Poe, it moves on to analyze ten famous tales by the same author to demonstrate that the shadow is always the perceptible print of what it follows, thus performing an inversion of the arrow of time and of logic itself that heralds the future Freudian discovery of Nachtraglichkeit (unsatisfyingly translated by « deferred action »). Between pathological melancholy and death drive, Gothic literature thus invites us to conceive the shadow as naturally following the trauma occasioned by loss but also as adumbrating the subject’s own dissolution.http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/3491sublimegothicspecterdoublesimulacrumtrauma |
| spellingShingle | Marc Amfreville Le Poids de l’ombre Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone sublime gothic specter double simulacrum trauma |
| title | Le Poids de l’ombre |
| title_full | Le Poids de l’ombre |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Le Poids de l’ombre |
| title_short | Le Poids de l’ombre |
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| topic | sublime gothic specter double simulacrum trauma |
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