1. Peter Pan
... ,"" partially because the familiar (heimlich) evokes the unfamiliar (unheimlich), rendering the comfortable and "homey- uncomfortable and alien (224). The familiar, now both familiar and unfamiliar, generates anxiety. Peter Pan, as a ghost whose first appearance is announced as "uncanny,"" is the sign of anxiety within the play. Beneath the familiarity of middle-class life, in the opening and closing scenes ... the changing world brought about by the industrial technologies of capitalism. The specifics of Rose's argument about the tension of various levels of language in Barrie's iteratio...
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- Approx Pages: 29
- Grade Level: Undergraduate