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H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century's most important
writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar
Allan Poe as both his "model" and his "God of Fiction." While
scholars and readers of Poe's and Lovecraft's work have long
recognized the connection between these authors, this collection of
essays is the first in-depth study to explore the complex literary
relationship between Lovecraft and Poe from a variety of critical
perspectives. Of the thirteen essays included in this book, some
consider how Poe's work influenced Lovecraft in important ways.
Other essays explore how Lovecraft's fictional, critical, and
poetic reception of Poe irrevocably changed how Poe's work has been
understood by subsequent generations of readers and interpreters.
Addressing a variety of topics ranging from the psychology of
influence to racial and sexual politics, the essays in this book
also consider how Lovecraft's interpretations of Poe have informed
later adaptations of both writers' works in films by Roger Corman
and fiction by Stephen King, Thomas Ligotti, and Caitlin R.
Kiernan. This collection is an indispensable resource not only for
those who are interested in Poe's and Lovecraft's work
specifically, but also for readers who wish to learn more about the
modern history and evolution of Gothic, horror, and weird fiction.
While at first glance it may seem strange that so many films
portray children as monstrous characters, the essays in this
collection begin by recognizing the pervasive popularity, and the
wide variety, of such characterizations. Perhaps because of the
wisdom received from our Romantic forebears about the purity of the
child, fictional imaginings of children as monsters exercise a
tremendous fascination for film audiences, and have for several
decades. These opposing, and yet co-dependent, tendencies are
reflected in the modern connotations of the phrases child-like
(innocent) and childish (selfish, perhaps even evil.) Yet unlike
most previous scholarly work on this cultural phenomenon, the
essays in this collection do not remain arrested by this reductive
binary, but strive to unearth the many possibilities, meanings and
forms that are hidden by the two-faced mask our imaginings of
children all too often wear.
This groundbreaking collection of all new essays presents critical
reflections on teaching horror film and fiction in many different
ways and in a number of different academic settings--from cultural
theory to film studies; from women's and gender studies to
postcolonialism; from critical thinking seminars on the paranormal
to the timeless classics of English horror literature. Together,
the essays show readers how the pedagogy of horror can galvanize,
unsettle and transform classrooms, giving us powerful tools with
which to consider interwoven issues of identity, culture,
monstrosity, the relationship between the real and the fictional,
normativity and adaptation. Includes a foreword by celebrated
horror writer Glen Hirshberg.
H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century's most important
writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar
Allan Poe as both his "model" and his "God of Fiction." While
scholars and readers of Poe's and Lovecraft's work have long
recognized the connection between these authors, this collection of
essays is the first in-depth study to explore the complex literary
relationship between Lovecraft and Poe from a variety of critical
perspectives. Of the thirteen essays included in this book, some
consider how Poe's work influenced Lovecraft in important ways.
Other essays explore how Lovecraft's fictional, critical, and
poetic reception of Poe irrevocably changed how Poe's work has been
understood by subsequent generations of readers and interpreters.
Addressing a variety of topics ranging from the psychology of
influence to racial and sexual politics, the essays in this book
also consider how Lovecraft's interpretations of Poe have informed
later adaptations of both writers' works in films by Roger Corman
and fiction by Stephen King, Thomas Ligotti, and Caitlin R.
Kiernan. This collection is an indispensable resource not only for
those who are interested in Poe's and Lovecraft's work
specifically, but also for readers who wish to learn more about the
modern history and evolution of Gothic, horror, and weird fiction.
This collection of essays examines the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft's
most important critical work, Supernatural Horror in Literature.
Each chapter illuminates a crucial aspect of Lovecraft's criticism,
from its aesthetic, philosophical and literary sources, to its
psychobiological underpinnings, to its pervasive influence on the
conception and course of horror and weird literature through the
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These essays
investigate the meaning of cosmic horror before and after
Lovecraft, explore his critical relevance to contemporary social
science, feminist and queer readings of his work, and ultimately
reveal Lovecraft's importance for contemporary speculative
philosophy, film and literature.
This collection of essays examines the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft's
most important critical work, Supernatural Horror in Literature.
Each chapter illuminates a crucial aspect of Lovecraft's criticism,
from its aesthetic, philosophical and literary sources, to its
psychobiological underpinnings, to its pervasive influence on the
conception and course of horror and weird literature through the
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These essays
investigate the meaning of cosmic horror before and after
Lovecraft, explore his critical relevance to contemporary social
science, feminist and queer readings of his work, and ultimately
reveal Lovecraft's importance for contemporary speculative
philosophy, film and literature.
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