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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"weird fiction"”.
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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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Providence Lost: Natural and Urban Landscapes in H. P. Lovecraft's Fiction
<p>S. T. Joshi, the preeminent 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 …
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The Biologist and Area X as Posthuman Characters in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
… on Annihilation as a piece of Anthropocene fiction, as well as how Annihilation bends the formal boundaries of a narrative, which is a characteristic of the novel’s genre of weird fiction. I discuss this bending both through the biologist’s unreliability as a narrator due to Area X affecting …
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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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Weird America
<p>Mercenaries Ashley and Steve solve supernatural cases in an America that became the Earth’s second moon! Their newest case: saving a small Wisconsin town from monster terrorists, government corruption, and a lonely pillar of flesh caught in the chaos! What will they find? Money? Purpose? Love? …
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"""Forms of Some Intenser Life"": Genre and Imperialism at the Turn of the Century"
… late-nineteenth- and early- twentieth-century fiction that participates in or combines multiple genres, including Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and The Inheritors (with Ford Madox Ford), H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay, Bram Stoker’s The Snake’s Pass, and Algernon Blackwood’s “The …