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Chapter 5 - Implicit Double in Fiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2025

Femi Oyebode
Femi Oyebode
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University of Birmingham
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In this chapter, a different expression of the notion of the double is introduced and discussed. Here, there is no apparent distinct double but rather there is an implicit assumption that doubles can and do exist. This implicit notion forms the basis for the abnormal belief in Capgras syndrome. Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Martian’, Patrick McGrath’s Spider, and Nabokov’s Despair are the prime examples of this approach to the notion of the double.

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Ray BradburyThe MartianPatrick McGrathSpiderVladimir NabokovDespairDéja vuJamais vu
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Analysing ‘Doubles' across Antiquity, Fiction, Psychopathology, and Neuroscience
 , pp. 88 - 105
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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