Tracing Phantasms: Envisioning the Haunted Novel in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Gerald Murnane’s The Plains

The thesis proposes a theory of the haunted novel as a way of identifying a kind of literature that expresses relation to silent (or silenced) cultural memories through distinctive use of visual devices, which the thesis refers to as ‘phantasms’. Through the tracing of phantasms represented in the n...

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Main Author: Stockton, Lana Jane
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80147
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description The thesis proposes a theory of the haunted novel as a way of identifying a kind of literature that expresses relation to silent (or silenced) cultural memories through distinctive use of visual devices, which the thesis refers to as ‘phantasms’. Through the tracing of phantasms represented in the novels 2666 by Roberto Bolaño and The Plains by Gerald Murnane, the thesis imagines the haunted novel as a literary expression of unsettled history.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-801472020-07-22T03:48:11Z Tracing Phantasms: Envisioning the Haunted Novel in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Gerald Murnane’s The Plains Stockton, Lana Jane The thesis proposes a theory of the haunted novel as a way of identifying a kind of literature that expresses relation to silent (or silenced) cultural memories through distinctive use of visual devices, which the thesis refers to as ‘phantasms’. Through the tracing of phantasms represented in the novels 2666 by Roberto Bolaño and The Plains by Gerald Murnane, the thesis imagines the haunted novel as a literary expression of unsettled history. 2019 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80147 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Stockton, Lana Jane
Tracing Phantasms: Envisioning the Haunted Novel in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Gerald Murnane’s The Plains
title Tracing Phantasms: Envisioning the Haunted Novel in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Gerald Murnane’s The Plains
title_full Tracing Phantasms: Envisioning the Haunted Novel in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Gerald Murnane’s The Plains
title_fullStr Tracing Phantasms: Envisioning the Haunted Novel in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Gerald Murnane’s The Plains
title_full_unstemmed Tracing Phantasms: Envisioning the Haunted Novel in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Gerald Murnane’s The Plains
title_short Tracing Phantasms: Envisioning the Haunted Novel in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Gerald Murnane’s The Plains
title_sort tracing phantasms: envisioning the haunted novel in roberto bolaño’s 2666 and gerald murnane’s the plains
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80147