New critical essays on H. P. Lovecraft

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    • Simmons, David

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New critical essays on H. P. Lovecraft

edited by David Simmons

  • : pbk

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Reprint. Originally published : New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013

"Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 ISBN:9781137332240" -- t.p. verso

Includes bibliographies

Summary: "New critical essays on H.P. Lovecraft offers an exciting investigation of this significant writer's works and influence. In the collection a range of noted scholars, novelists and writers, take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring Lovecraft's life, his most beloved stories and his continuing presence in popular culture. Their work provides the first scholarly study of its kind, creating a book that is enlightening for both academics and fans of a figure that Stephen King called "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.""-- Provided by publisher

収録内容

  • Machine generated contents note:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword by S.T. Joshi
  • Introduction
  • PART I: LOVECRAFT AND HIS FICTION
  • 1 'A Certain Resemblance': Africa as Abjection Within and Without in H.P. Lovecraft's Short Fiction; David Simmons
  • 2. 'Spawn of the pit': Lavinia, Marceline, Medusa and all Things Foul: HP Lovecraft's Liminal Women; Gina Wisker
  • 3. 'The infinitude of the shrieking abysses': Rooms, Wombs, Tombs and the Hysterical Female Gothic in "The Dreams in the Witch-House"; Sara Williams
  • 4. Slime and Western Man: H. P. Lovecraft in the Time of Modernism; Gerry Carlin and Nicola Allen
  • 5. Looming at the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft's Mirages; Robert Waugh
  • 6. On 'The Dunwich Horror'; Donald Burleson
  • PART II: LOVECRAFT AND HIS INFLUENCE
  • 7. The Shadow Over Derleth: Disseminating the Mythos in The Trail of Cthulhu; Jon S. Mackley
  • 8. From the Library of America to the Mountains of Madness: Recent Discourse on H.P. Lovecraft; Steffen Hantke
  • 9. Co(s)mic Horror; Chris Murray and Kevin Corstorphine
  • 10. 'Sounds which filled me with an indefinable dread': The Cthulhu Mythopoeia of H.P. Lovecraft in 'Extreme' Metal'; Joseph Norman
  • 11. 'Comrades in Tentacles': H.P. Lovecraft and China Mieville; Martyn Colebrook
  • 12. Tentacles and Teeth: The Lovecraftian Being in Popular Culture; Mark Jones

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The last ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in H.P. Lovecraft in academic and scholarly circles. New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft seeks to offer an expansive and considered account of a fascinating yet challenging writer; both popular and critically valid but also problematic in terms of his depictions of race, gender and class.

目次

  • Acknowledgments Foreword by S.T. Joshi Introduction PART I: LOVECRAFT AND HIS FICTION 1 'A Certain Resemblance': Africa as Abjection Within and Without in H.P. Lovecraft's Short Fiction
  • David Simmons 2. 'Spawn of the pit': Lavinia, Marceline, Medusa and all Things Foul: HP Lovecraft's Liminal Women
  • Gina Wisker 3. 'The infinitude of the shrieking abysses': Rooms, Wombs, Tombs and the Hysterical Female Gothic in "The Dreams in the Witch-House"
  • Sara Williams 4. Slime and Western Man: H. P. Lovecraft in the Time of Modernism
  • Gerry Carlin and Nicola Allen 5. Looming at the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft's Mirages
  • Robert Waugh 6. On 'The Dunwich Horror'
  • Donald Burleson PART II: LOVECRAFT AND HIS INFLUENCE 7. The Shadow Over Derleth: Disseminating the Mythos in The Trail of Cthulhu
  • J. S. Mackley 8. From the Library of America to the Mountains of Madness: Recent Discourse on H.P. Lovecraft
  • Steffen Hantke 9. Co(s)mic Horror
  • Chris Murray and Kevin Corstorphine 10. 'Sounds which filled me with an indefinable dread': The Cthulhu Mythopoeia of H.P. Lovecraft in 'Extreme' Metal'
  • Joseph Norman 11. 'Comrades in Tentacles': H.P. Lovecraft and China Mieville
  • Martyn Colebrook 12. Tentacles and Teeth: The Lovecraftian Being in Popular Culture
  • Mark Jones

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