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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"H.P. Lovecraft"”.
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H.P. Lovecraft and the Modernist Grotesque
This study serves to bring Lovecraft into a new and more significant literary context, and to highlight the relationships between modernist and grotesque literature. Various authors are mentioned with reference to both modernist and grotesque literary tendencies, and Lovecraft's "modernist …
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A knocking at the door : Christian hope in the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.
Mechanistic materialist H.P. Lovecraft spent his entire career writing supernatural horror fiction. This paradox occasions an exploration of horror and Christian hope in his fiction. The appeal of supernatural horror fiction in a culture which denies the supernatural demonstrates the fascinating …
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An Evolution of Evil: the Cycle of the Vampire
… have another major change. At this time, H.P. Lovecraft wrote about cosmic horror, replacing the supernatural with the scientifically unknown. Lovecraft’s vampire was immune to holy symbols, and wasn’t an undead but rather an unknown ancient entity living in the earth. It would be destroyed by …
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Boot Camp for the Psyche: Inoculative Nonfiction and Pre-Memory Structures as Preemptive Trauma Mediation in Fiction and Film
… self-inoculation of American horror author H.P. Lovecraft.</p>
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19th Century Gothic Inspiration: Investigating the Next Generation of Poes
… published in 1903, “Shadows on the Wall,” H.P. Lovecraft and his short story published in 1925, “In the Vault,” and finally Stephen King’s short story published in 1972, “Suffer the Little Children.” An aspect of Poe’s writing that is also a familiar theme within 20<sup>th</sup> century gothic …
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Necrolabour: A postqualitative contextualisation of contemporary work in respect to the philosophy of Georges Bataille
This thesis represents a reading, existential at its base, of the protean space of contemporary labour, under the lens of French philosopher Georges Bataille (1897–1962). A historical overview of the understanding of labour reveals the contemporary moment as positioned on the threshold of the …