Search Results for H. P. Lovecraft

... Private History of the Court of England ([1808] 2011). © 2016 by University of Oklahoma 2016 weird fiction history William Godwin H. P. Lovecraft Walter Scott Horace Walpole Works Cited Addison Joseph . 1854 . “The Spectator, no. 117.” In Addison's Works , edited...

...Timothy S. Murphy This essay draws out the antipopulist and antinationalist implications of H. P. Lovecraft's cosmic antihumanism by tracing how his fiction (especially the tales At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow out of Time ) deploys forms of representational inscription—maps, mural...

...Benjamin Noys; Timothy S. Murphy The introduction to this special issue proposes a three-stage periodization for the development of weird fiction, the unstable hybrid of horror, science fiction, and fantasy most often associated with H. P. Lovecraft: Old Weird (1880–1940), which is centered...

...Benjamin Noys The Old Weird, weird fiction written between 1890 and 1940, was often reactionary and, in the figure of H. P. Lovecraft, racist. Contemporary New Weird writing is characterized by a contrasting politics that stresses the weird as the destabilization of normative conceptions...

...: Writing, Politics, and the Experience of Excess , edited by Brennan Eugene Williams Russell , 119 – 29 . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan . King Stephen . 2005 . Introduction to H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, against Life , by Houellebecq Michel , 9 – 18 . San...

... James . Introduction by Robb Graham . New York : The Modern Library . Jameson Fredric . 1991 . Postmodernism; or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . London : Verso . Lovecraft H. P. 1999 . The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories . Edited by Joshi S. T...

... in the development of what later came to be known as the New Weird. As Jeff VanderMeer (2009) explains it, the weird fiction of the early twentieth century by pulp writers “like H. P. Lovecraft or Clark Ashton Smith . . . eventually morphed into modern-­day traditional Horror.” The New Weird breaks...

... Stefano . 2005 . “ Dérive(s) du fantastique: Considérations intempestives sur la théorie d'un genre .” Comparatistica , no. 14 : 113 – 36 . Lovecraft H. P. ( 1929 ) 2005 . “ The Dunwich Horror .” In Tales , edited by Straub Peter , 370 – 414 . New York : Library of America...

... to the sword-and-sorcery tales of writers such as H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. Howard (no models of racial tolerance) with an ironic and self-aware deconstruction of that subgenre's politics. Delany brought to the genre not only a sense of linguistic and narrative playfulness but also...