Gavin Callaghan

H. P. Lovecraft's Dark Arcadia

The Satire, Symbology and Contradiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides an objective reassessment of the controversial works and life of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Gavin Callaghan goes back to the texts themselves, and follows where Lovecraft leads him: into an arcane world of parental giganticism and inverted classicism, in which Lovecraft's parental obsessions were twisted into the all-powerful cosmic monsters of his imaginary cosmology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780786470792
• ISBN-10: 0786470798
• Artikelnr.: 38078823

Autorenporträt

Gavin Callaghan is an independent writer, artist, and researcher whose works have appeared in the The Comics Journal, Lovecraft Annual, Studies in Weird Fiction, and FATE Magazine. He lives in New Port Richey, Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Sympathy for the Shoggoths One
Dark Arcadia: Arcadia, Arkham and H. P. Lovecraft's Process of Classical Inversion Two
The Birds and the Bees (According to H. P. Lovecraft) Three
Secrets Behind the Locked Door: Lovecraft and the Theseus Myth Four
From the Moon to the Pit: Lovecraft's Moon-Ladder Five
Lovecraft's In Memoriam: Phillips Gamwell and the Innsmouth Coda Six
H. P. Lovecraft and the Magna Mater Appendix Chapter Notes Bibliography Index