The life and work of Robert Hayward Barlow (1918-1951) has received
remarkably little study from scholars, who see in him only one of
the acolytes (and the literary executor) of the great American
supernaturalist H. P. Lovecraft. But, as this pioneering study by
Italian scholar Massimo Berruti establishes, Barlow was a
distinguished writer in his own right-the author of dozens of
provocative tales of fantasy and horror and of several volumes of
thought-provoking poetry. Berruti undertakes a full-scale
structuralist analysis of Barlow's work, studying such central
themes as cosmicism, time, nature, and irony, and subjecting such
celebrated tales as "A Dim-Remembered Story" and "The Night Ocean"
to penetrating analysis. Berruti concludes his study with
perspicacious observations on Barlow as a free-verse poet. Massimo
Berruti teaches Semiotics of Narrativity and Semiotics of
Interpretation at Helsinki University, Finland. He is the author of
many articles on H. P. Lovecraft and other writers that have
appeared in such journals as Lovecraft Studies, Studies in Fantasy
Literature, Studi Lovecraftiani, and Semiotica. He has also
translated Lovecraft's Il guardiano dei sogni (2007) and other
volumes of fiction and literary criticism.
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