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doppelgänger |
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doppelgänger(German ‘double-goer’) apparition of a living person, a person's double, or a guardian spirit. The German composer and writer E T A Hoffman wrote a short story called ‘Die Doppelgänger’ in 1821. English novelist Charles Williams (1886–1945) used the idea to great effect in his novel Descent into Hell (1937). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Not only does the gothic inform my meta-level reading of the production of the text, in which the heroine of The Street and Petry herself stand as doppelgangers, or "gothic doubles," of one another. In this spooky horror story, doppelgangers kill people and take over their bodies and their lives. But due to distance and gravitational pulls, and the ebb and flow of the cosmos, and the invention of Tivo, and the multiverse and doppelgangers, and time travel--well--shit gets complicated. |
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