Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, ...Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based in capital cities such as London or Paris. Disrupting accounts that separate religion from progressive social movements and mass culture, Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard construct a new Modernism belonging to a history of regional cities, new urban areas powered by the hopes and frustrations of recently urbanized populations seeking a better life. In this way, Pentecostal Modernism shows how this process of urbanization generates new cultural practices including the invention of religious traditions and mass-cultural forms.
O presente trabalho procura fazer um breve levantamento de algumas incursões do universo ficcional de H. P. Lovecraftno cinema. Criador de um panteão teratológico, objetos profanos variados e uma ...perspectiva filosófica pessimista apontando para a insignificância do humano diante de um cosmos aterrador, o escritor acaba se tornando um amplo material para apropriações cinematográficas. Enquanto uma massiva utilização de elementos lovecraftianos ganham contornos cada vez maiores em filmes com boas críticas e bilheterias, as transposições das narrativas do autor parecem habitar um nicho mais específico de filmes, sobretudo em um âmbito considerado mais trash do audiovisual. Através do estudo de alguns autores e alguns exemplos mais emblemáticos e conhecidos, demonstraremos esse estranho paradoxo e tentaremos ensaiar algumas possíveis hipóteses.
Este estudio comenzará ubicando a Thomas Ligotti en el seno de la literatura de lo extraño, género que, hoy en día, se ve amenazado por sus propios escritores involucrados en un sistema consumista y ...capitalista. Posteriormente, se hará hincapié en la relación existente entre Lovecraft y Ligotti, analizando cómo este conecta con la ficción lovecraftiana del siglo XX, recuperando el verdadero miedo narrativo y, a partir de esto, un irrealismo macabro constitutivo de la literatura de lo extraño del siglo XXL
Considering the psychogogical capacity of language, that is, its ability to seduce and to convince, this article inquires how this manifests itself in the construction of fantastic literature and in ...particular in the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Thus, it constitutes an ap- proximation to the fundamental text of the Cthulhu cycle that highlights the rhetorical resources used by its author to convince the reader of the existence of the impossible, as well as of human insignificance in the vast cosmos. Although in these tales all pisteis or means of persuasion ( logos , pathos and ethos ), described by Aristotle, are present, it is evident that, given the importance of the effect and therefore of the receiver of thetext, pathos has a central place.
The Love of Ruins Scott Cutler Shershow, Scott Michaelsen
2017, 2017-01-01
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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.
The increasing popularization of Lovecraft’s fictional world in other cultural products, such as cinema or videogames, is leading to a certain vulgarization of its essence, particularly in the more ...commercial products. Only the more marginal and alternative products, such as metal music, maintain, or even develop, the Lovecraftian essence. Although there is a traditional link between metal music and the Cthulhu mythos, in Spain recently eight new bands whose lyrics are related to Lovecraft and his work have appeared: Back to R’lyeh, GhÜl, Keziah, Cuerno, Nihil, Opositor y Yuggoth, Al Azif and Nyctophobia. The purpose of this paper is to analyze which Lovecraftian elements are included in their songs and in what ways their lyrics maintain the Lovecraftian essence.
This article explores connections between C.S. Lewis and filmmaker Terence Fisher, notably how their works explore themes like the charm of evil, white magic's dubious nature, and myth hinting at ...divine truths. By viewing these themes, Fisher and Lewis's common views on fairy tales, and how feedback informed their work, scholars discover nuance in the perceived "Inklings versus secular British culture" dichotomy.
This essay explores photography’s relationship to the transhumanist imaginary of American weird fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft; transhumanism refers to the belief that humans can evolve through ...technological advancements. I argue that Lovecraft’s seemingly naïve conception of photography as unerringly “objective” actually reflects his understanding of photography as a transhuman technology that can transform human consciousness. However, Lovecraft’s transhumanist vision is plagued by the recognition that the endpoint of transhumanist evolution is the annihilation of the individual body and the specific desires on which one’s sense of self is grounded—a vision Lovecraft is attracted to but finally cannot embrace.
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