« This Empty Tale » : monstration de l’envers et dire politique dans How the Dead Live de Will Self

This article envisages one of Will Self’s novels through the prism of the uncanny. Such tonality owes a lot to a poetics of radical inversion that taps the powers of contradiction to renew the tradition of ars moriendi. By resorting to a logic of excess, Self performs an ethics of the uncanny, an et...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jean-Michel Ganteau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2008-11-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/7175