After a brief discussion of what constitutes the uncanny-Fisher follows Freud, attributing to the uncanny the “strange within the familiar, the strangely familiar, the familiar as strange” (10, emphasis in original)-Fisher provides an exploratory hypothesis of where the weird and the eerie are located. Toward that end, he argues for two affective categories (which can also be narrative modes)-the weird and the eerie-related to but distinct from the uncanny. In The Weird and the Eerie, Mark Fisher sets out to describe what it is about certain kinds of literature and films that create “a certain kind of disquiet” (9). Includes bibliography but no in-text citations. An Unsystematic Articulation of the Weird and the Eerie: A Beautiful, Insightful Collection of Readings by Mark Fisherįisher, Mark.
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