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From beyond: H. P. Lovecraft and the place of horror

[Zeitschriftenartikel]

Kneale, James

Abstract

The work of the American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft offers a valuable opportunity to study the representation of space in literature, but while Lovecraft's biography provides a useful way of making sense of his horror fictions, it also risks obscuring ... mehr

The work of the American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft offers a valuable opportunity to study the representation of space in literature, but while Lovecraft's biography provides a useful way of making sense of his horror fictions, it also risks obscuring the importance of his represented spaces. Many of these impossible spaces mark a threshold between the known and unknown, and the paper argues that an attention to narrative demonstrates that these thresholds constitute the fulcrum about which his plots move. The work of Mikhail Bakhtin also suggests that Lovecraft's belief that ‘change is the enemy of everything really worth cherishing’ explains why these thresholds are represented as threats rather than progressive engagements with social space.... weniger

Sprache Dokument
Englisch

Publikationsjahr
2006

Seitenangabe
S. 106-126

Zeitschriftentitel
Cultural Geographies, 13 (2006) 1

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1191/1474474005eu353oa

Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

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PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)


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