{"id":6472,"date":"2018-12-10T05:57:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T05:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6472"},"modified":"2018-12-10T05:57:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T05:57:11","slug":"revivifying-the-ur-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/12\/10\/revivifying-the-ur-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Revivifying the Ur-text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Emery, who was a North Staffordshire -based writer the last time I looked, has just published his 2018 PhD thesis on the Loughborough University open repository. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.lboro.ac.uk\/dspace-jspui\/handle\/2134\/36307\">&#8220;Revivifying the Ur-text: a reconstruction of sword-&amp;-sorcery as a literary form&#8221;<\/a><\/em> asks if, given this literary genre\u2019s relative neglect in recent decades, it is possible to identify the genre\u2019s core characteristics and then use these \u201cto create a work that realizes the form\u2019s potential to exist as literature\u201d. Firstly he explores the structural development of the Ur-genre as it emerged in the stories of R.E. Howard (influenced by H.P. Lovecraft in terms of the horror elements), then surveys de Camp\u2019s later contributions and distortions to the genre, and generally seeks to identify the \u201cpristine elements\u201d at the core of the genre\u2019s once-flourishing form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Emery, who was a North Staffordshire -based writer the last time I looked, has just published his 2018 PhD thesis on the Loughborough University open repository. &#8220;Revivifying the Ur-text: a reconstruction of sword-&amp;-sorcery as a literary form&#8221; asks if, given this literary genre\u2019s relative neglect in recent decades, it is possible to identify the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}