Erscheint: August 2026
Buch (Softcover): Fachbuch
Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 6
Verlag:
Hippocampus Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35729417
EAN: 9781614985013
Erscheint: August 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 42.50
Beschreibung
This sixth volume of Lovecraftian Proceedings,. including selected papers from the Armitage Symposium of NecronomiCon Providence 2024, presents numerous advances in Lovecraft scholarship. From a biographical perspective, Daniel J. Holmes examines Lovecraft's early poem "Providence in 2000 A. D. " (1912); Dale Allen Crowley studies Lovecraft's trip to Cleveland in 1922 and its influence on his writing; and Taylor Walker presents an historical account of Butler Hospital, where both of Lovecraft's parents died. Heather Miller analyzes the influence of Melville's Moby-Dick. upon Lovecraft; Carlos González investigates Lovecraft's influence on the Argentinian writer Mariana Enriquez; James R. M. Young conducts a philosophical study of evil in Lovecraft's work; Gus Kraus ponders the influence of Indian religious texts on Lovecraft; and Perry Neil Harrison studies the Necronomicon. in the context of phonotactics. More theoretical papers broach the concept of a "weird poetics" and the possibility of a horrific Platonism. Other essays treat such subjects as Farnsworth Wright's inclusion of translated horror stories in Weird Tales;. Robert W. Chambers's disturbing dystopian tale, "The Repairer of Reputations," from The King in Yellow;. the role of intertextuality in the in the TV show Twin Peaks;. and the film The Wicker Man. as a twisted utopia. All in all, this book contains a bountiful and diverse group of papers expanding our knowledge of Lovecraft and weird fiction.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Elena Tchougounova-Paulson
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 314