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Love of Ruins Letters on Lovecraft

Shershow, Scott Cutler Michaelsen Scott
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781438465111
Publisert
2017-03-01
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Vekt
408 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
206

Forfatter
Shershow, Scott Cutler
Michaelsen Scott

Om bidragsyterne

Scott Cutler Shershow is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and author of Deconstructing Dignity: A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate Scott Michaelsen is Professor of English at Michigan State University and coauthor (with David E. Johnson) of Anthropology's Wake: Attending to the End of Culture.

Love of Ruins Letters on Lovecraft

Shershow, Scott Cutler Michaelsen Scott
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk
Shershow, Scott Cutler Michaelsen Scott
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk
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<p>"<i>The Love of Ruins</i> is an excellent study of Lovecraft's work and philosophy … Its tone and its method both refresh the reader." — <i>Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts</i></p><p>"This book is aimed at literary scholars or serious readers already familiar with Lovecraft … but will be of interest to scholars of fictional religions or philosophers of religion wishing to explore the constructive possibilities of Lovecraft's cosmic pessimism." — <i>Religious Studies Review</i></p><p>"<i>The Love of Ruins</i> ranks among the small handful of the very best Lovecraftian analyses. Erudite, sophisticated, and insightful, this volume is a pure joy to read. A must have for anyone interested in Lovecraft or the field of dark fantasy." — Gary Hoppenstand, author of <i>Clive Barker's Short Stories: Imagination as Metaphor in the</i> Books of Blood <i>and Other Works</i></p>

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his "Cthulhu mythos" is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme in contemporary philosophy, and his racism continues to spark controversy in the media. The Love of Ruins takes a fresh look at a figure widely acknowledged as the father of modern horror or "weird" fiction. In these pages, Lovecraft emerges not as the atheist and nihilist he is often claimed to be, but as a kind of "psychonaut" and mystic whose stories, through their own imaginative rigor, expose the intellectual bankruptcy of their author's racism. The Love of Ruins is itself written in the form of letters, in order to do homage to Lovecraft's love of the form of the personal letter (he wrote more than 100,000), and to emulate Lovecraft's lifetime practice of thinking-as-corresponding.
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Preface 1. Prayers 2. Warnings 3. Psychonautics, Sublimity, Love 4. Love and Ruins 5. Ruins and Race 6. Ruins, Sublimity, Laughter 7. Race and Writing 8. Writing and the Love of Ruins 9. Race, the Fourth Dimension, Apophasis 10. Race, the Love of Wounds 11. Wounds, Race, Music, and Noise 12. Race, Orientalism, Writing 13. Time Travel, White Mythology, the Library 14. Cities in Ruins 15. The Late City, the Decline of the West 16. Basalt Towers, Trapdoors, Taboos, Nameless Beings 17. Apophasis, Science Fiction, Visibility and Racism, Im-Possible Politics 18. Archive, Irruption, Eruption, Basalt 19. The Great Race, the Archive 20. Comedy and Laughter 21. Class, Socialism, Politics 22. Doubling, Indirect Racism, the Gift of Vision, Nonknowledge 23. The Fourth Dimension, Community 24. The Fourth Dimension, Community, Unworking 25. Community, Sacrifice, Cults 26. Racial Degeneration, Police, Sacrifice 27. Sacrifice, Madness, One Blood, the Invention of the White Race, Frogs 28. Untimeliness, Sacrifice, Religion 29. Religion after Religion, Dread 30. Religion, the Wholesome, Faith and Knowledge 31. Kindness, Wonder, Horror 32. Hauntology, Religion, Science, Race, and Racism 33. Modern Apophasis 34. The Weird, the Future, the Open Notes Bibliography Index
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Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.

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<p>"<i>The Love of Ruins</i> is an excellent study of Lovecraft's work and philosophy … Its tone and its method both refresh the reader." — <i>Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts</i></p><p>"This book is aimed at literary scholars or serious readers already familiar with Lovecraft … but will be of interest to scholars of fictional religions or philosophers of religion wishing to explore the constructive possibilities of Lovecraft's cosmic pessimism." — <i>Religious Studies Review</i></p><p>"<i>The Love of Ruins</i> ranks among the small handful of the very best Lovecraftian analyses. Erudite, sophisticated, and insightful, this volume is a pure joy to read. A must have for anyone interested in Lovecraft or the field of dark fantasy." — Gary Hoppenstand, author of <i>Clive Barker's Short Stories: Imagination as Metaphor in the</i> Books of Blood <i>and Other Works</i></p>

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his "Cthulhu mythos" is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme in contemporary philosophy, and his racism continues to spark controversy in the media. The Love of Ruins takes a fresh look at a figure widely acknowledged as the father of modern horror or "weird" fiction. In these pages, Lovecraft emerges not as the atheist and nihilist he is often claimed to be, but as a kind of "psychonaut" and mystic whose stories, through their own imaginative rigor, expose the intellectual bankruptcy of their author's racism. The Love of Ruins is itself written in the form of letters, in order to do homage to Lovecraft's love of the form of the personal letter (he wrote more than 100,000), and to emulate Lovecraft's lifetime practice of thinking-as-corresponding.
Les mer
Preface 1. Prayers 2. Warnings 3. Psychonautics, Sublimity, Love 4. Love and Ruins 5. Ruins and Race 6. Ruins, Sublimity, Laughter 7. Race and Writing 8. Writing and the Love of Ruins 9. Race, the Fourth Dimension, Apophasis 10. Race, the Love of Wounds 11. Wounds, Race, Music, and Noise 12. Race, Orientalism, Writing 13. Time Travel, White Mythology, the Library 14. Cities in Ruins 15. The Late City, the Decline of the West 16. Basalt Towers, Trapdoors, Taboos, Nameless Beings 17. Apophasis, Science Fiction, Visibility and Racism, Im-Possible Politics 18. Archive, Irruption, Eruption, Basalt 19. The Great Race, the Archive 20. Comedy and Laughter 21. Class, Socialism, Politics 22. Doubling, Indirect Racism, the Gift of Vision, Nonknowledge 23. The Fourth Dimension, Community 24. The Fourth Dimension, Community, Unworking 25. Community, Sacrifice, Cults 26. Racial Degeneration, Police, Sacrifice 27. Sacrifice, Madness, One Blood, the Invention of the White Race, Frogs 28. Untimeliness, Sacrifice, Religion 29. Religion after Religion, Dread 30. Religion, the Wholesome, Faith and Knowledge 31. Kindness, Wonder, Horror 32. Hauntology, Religion, Science, Race, and Racism 33. Modern Apophasis 34. The Weird, the Future, the Open Notes Bibliography Index
Les mer
Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781438465111
Publisert
2017-03-01
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Vekt
408 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
206

Forfatter
Shershow, Scott Cutler
Michaelsen Scott

Om bidragsyterne

Scott Cutler Shershow is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and author of Deconstructing Dignity: A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate Scott Michaelsen is Professor of English at Michigan State University and coauthor (with David E. Johnson) of Anthropology's Wake: Attending to the End of Culture.

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