H. P. Lovecraft's dark Arcadia

• Verfasst von: Callaghan, Gavin
• Titel: H. P. Lovecraft's dark Arcadia
• Titelzusatz: the satire, symbology and contradiction
• Mitwirkende: Lovecraft, H. P.
• Verf.angabe: Gavin Callaghan
• Verlagsort: Jefferson, NC [u.a.]
• Verlag: McFarland
• Jahr: 2013
• Umfang: VII, 279 S.
• Illustrationen: Ill.
• Format: 23 cm
• Fussnoten: "Dark Arcadia attempts an objective reassessment of the controversial works and life of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Ignoring secondary accounts and various received truths, Gavin Callaghan goes back to the weird texts themselves, and follows where Lovecraft leads him: into an arcane world of parental giganticism and inverted classicism"--Provided by publisher
• Inhalt: Sympathy for the Shoggoths -- Dark arcadia: Arcadia, Arkham and H. P. Lovecraft's process of classical inversion -- The birds and the bees (according to H. P. Lovecraft) -- Secrets behind the locked door: Lovecraft and the Theseus myth -- From the moon to the pit: Lovecraft's moon-ladder -- Lovecraft's in memoriam: Phillips Gamwell and the Innsmouth coda -- H. P. Lovecraft and the magna mater.
• Inhalt: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272) and index
• ISBN: 0-7864-7079-8
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-7079-2
• Schlagwörter: (p)Lovecraft, H. P.
• Schlagwörter: (p)Lovecraft, H. P. / (s)Arkadien <Motiv>
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: HU 4355
• K10plus-PPN: 744170990

Abstract

"Dark Arcadia attempts an objective reassessment of the controversial works and life of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Ignoring secondary accounts and various received truths, Gavin Callaghan goes back to the weird texts themselves, and follows where Lovecraft leads him: into an arcane world of parental giganticism and inverted classicism"--Provided by publisher