%I SZTE IEAS E-Books
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%L acta86787
%D 2024
%A  OsoliovĂĄ ViktĂłria
%X The critically acclaimed author, Shirley Jackson in her 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House, uses the gothic formula to explore the haunting nature of domestic space. This paper attempts to explore the (dis)location of female identity and corporeality within the setting of the Gothic haunted house by relying on theories concerning the psychological and psychogeographical implications of the haunted house motif, with special regard to the concept of the uncanny by Sigmund Freud and the concept of the architectural uncanny by Anthony Vidler. I rely on Jackson’s gothic poetics of space to understand how female embodiment is subjected to estrangement through its (dis)locations in the haunted house. To illustrate the spatial and corporeal poetics of the haunted house through analysing the peculiar and symbiotic relationship that the female protagonist shares with the haunted house, the concept of extimacy by Jacques Lacan will be of use. I argue that the novel creates horrific effects by allowing readers a glimpse at the internal struggles of the traumatised main character but also by animating the house itself as an uncanny topographical agent figuratively expressing these anxieties. Because of its supernatural abilities, the house reflects (and incarnates) its female heroine inhabitant’s unconscious fears and desires.
%S Acta Universitatis Szegediensis de Attila JĂłzsef nominatae : papers in english and american studies
%O Bibliogr.: p. 78-80. ; ĂśsszefoglalĂĄs angol nyelven
%T "I've never been wanted anywhere" : haunting/haunted house and female identity in Shirley Jackson's The haunting of Hill House
%C Szeged
%P 68-80
%J Papers in English and American studies : Tomus XXVIII. - New Horizons in English and American Studies: Papers from the Doctoral Program
%K Amerikai irodalom tĂśrtĂŠnete - 20. sz., MĹąelemzĂŠs - angol