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What does Uncanniness mean here?

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oristarA
 
Reply Sun 24 Jun, 2012 05:15 am
My English-Chinese dictionary tells me that it means "the quality of being mysterious and horrific". I don't believe it and couldn't find the definition in online E dicts.

Context:

The Uncanniness of the Ordinary
STANLEY CAVELL
THE T ANNER L ECTURES ON H UMAN V ALUES
Delivered at
Stanford University
April 3 and 8, 1986

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http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=zh-CN&q=The++Uncanniness+of+the++Ordinary+&btnG=&lr=

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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sun 24 Jun, 2012 06:19 am
@oristarA,
Start by looking up uncanny.
oristarA
 
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Reply Sun 24 Jun, 2012 08:29 am
@ehBeth,
ehBeth wrote:

Start by looking up uncanny.


surpassing the ordinary or normal?
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