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the eerie: a standalone construct

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Genre studies

a feeling produced by a failure of absence or of presence: something where there should be nothing, or nothing where there should be something.

In genre studies, the eerie refers to a feeling produced by a failure of absence or of presence: something where there should be nothing, or nothing where there should be something. This meaning comes from Fisher (2017) in The Weird and the Eerie.[1]

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failure4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs genre3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs presence5 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs

References

Fisher, M. (2017). The Weird and the Eerie. Repeater Books. ISBN 9781910924389

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