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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"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 fabulist’s alternity & Lovecraft and the grotesque sublime
… three novellas by the American writer, H. P. Lovecraft (1890 – 1937), analysing Lovecraft’s use of the sublime and the grotesque. This analysis employs the sublime as explained by Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of The Sublime and the …
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An Integral Analysis of the Life and Works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)
… and works of horror fiction icon Howard Philips Lovecraft (1890-1937), as a sociocultural phenomenon. Moreover, it aims to elucidate the enduring relevance of Sorokin’s analytical sociological contribution. These two writers are bona fide creative geniuses, who had a meaningful and significant …
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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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Lovecraftian Queerness: Weird and Queer Temporalities in <em>Lovecraft Country</em> and <em>Detransition, Baby</em>
<p>By analyzing H. P. Lovecraft’s work through the lens of queer temporality, I offer a queer perspective on Lovecraft, reading the monstrous outside in his work as a queer figure and casting the temporal conflict common to Lovecraftian horror as a conflict between dominant time and outside time. I …
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Providence Lost: Natural and Urban Landscapes in H. P. Lovecraft's Fiction
… scholar of weird fiction, considers H. P. Lovecraft a “topographical realist,” noting that, in his later fiction, Lovecraft creates realistic and painstakingly detailed settings. In “Providence Lost: Natural and Urban Landscapes in H. P. Lovecraft’s fiction,” I explore the significance of …
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Unravel. A novel – and – A diverse palette: Cosmic horror and weird fiction with/out Lovecraft. A critical essay
The fiction of HP Lovecraft – known broadly as weird fiction and more specifically as cosmic horror – ushered in a genre that rejected the “clanking chains” inherent to the Gothic and supernatural fiction (Lovecraft, 2012, p. 28). The weird is defined by its “atmosphere of breathless and …
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THE DYNAMICS OF XENOGENETICS AND SECTRANRIANISM IN LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR: A STUDY OF NIHILISM AND SCIENTIFIC UPHEAVAL
… this thesis project is to affix the attention of Lovecraftian scholarship on the oft ignored racism that pervades many of H.P. Lovecraft’s better known short stories. Existing scholarship revolves around an inordinate focus on the cosmic aesthetic of Lovecraftian horror and Lovecraft’s professed …
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Intertextovost v Příběhu inženýra lidských duší
… Hawthorne, Twaine, Crane, Fitzerald, Conrad, Lovecraft). Tento vztah bude vykládán v rámci teorie intertextovosti s cílem analyzovat, jaký význam mají takové mezitextové vazby pro Škvoreckého román. Práce se také pokusí interpretovat některá základní témata Příbehu inženýra lidských duší, …
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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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Fear and (non) fiction: Agrarian anxiety in “The Colour Out of Space”
… literary and sociological study examines H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” alongside New England agricultural societies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as their members faced socio-political change. Anxieties expressed in the short story reflect fears of …
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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 …
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On Nature's Prototypes: Character Design and Worldbuilding
<p><em>Nature’s Prototypes</em> is an ongoing narrative series that blends realism and fiction to create both dialectic plot structures and image sets. For substance, the series utilizes biological inquiries into fields, like ecology, pathology, and bioengineering, to imagine action-centric …