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New book on del Toro

12 Tuesday Nov 2013

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Call for academic papers, edited for length and for focus on Lovecraft-friendly topics:

“Guillermo del Toro is one of the most interesting people currently involved in genre in its various expressions. He is an artist who embodies his art that comes as a result of his creative passions and deep reflection. One of the elements that make him so interesting is critical reflection on various elements that contribute to his approach at bringing genre to life. … I am seeking the submission of abstracts for chapters for this proposed volume. Possible topics may include the following in connection with Guillermo del Toro:

*Relationship between del Toro’s self-professed atheism/agnosticism and interests in monstrous transcendence

*Monsters as metaphor

*Gods and monsters as overlapping and co-existing concepts

*Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos

*Concept of the monstrous sacred

Abstracts of up to 350 words should be sent to my attention as the volume’s at johnwmorehead@msn.com. Submissions will be accepted through 30th November 2013. This book is not a scholarly one, but will include thoughtful interactions with del Toro’s work. Once contributors are identified a proposal will be submitted to potential publishers. A major genre publisher has already expressed an interest in this volume. No definite timeframe has been established, but contributors may be identified by the end of the year, and a goal may be to have chapter drafts completed by the end of April for submission to a publisher in May.

Alambique

12 Tuesday Nov 2013

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Alambique…

“is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to scholarly research and criticism in the fields of science fiction and fantasy originally composed in Spanish or Portuguese. Alambique will accept scholarly articles written in English, however, as long as the main focus of the study concentrates on one of the Spanish or Portuguese cultural regions of the world.”

First issue available now.

Added to the Open Lovecraft page

06 Wednesday Nov 2013

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* Daniel M. Look (2013), “The Cosmic Angle of Regarding: mathematics and the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft” (“To appear in Journeys into Fear Vol. 1, Crossroad Press/SpiderBaby. Planned release March 2014″).

* Paul Boshears (2013), “Against Paraphrase: Graham Harman’s Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy“, Interstitial, March 2013. (Scholarly review of Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy).

* Ondrej Harnusek (2013), “Lovecraft and Poe: masters of the macabre of Providence” (Undergraduate final dissertation, Masaryk University Department of English and American Studies. In English).

I Am Providence, for Kindle

01 Friday Nov 2013

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Great news for Kindle ereader owners. The massive two-volume I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft is now available for the Kindle. Also in the UK, which gives a price of a reasonable £6.37 (about $10). Worth getting even if you own the paper volumes, just so you can search all zillion words of it by keyword. Also useful for people who need a larger and easier-to-read font.

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29 Tuesday Oct 2013

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* Ellen Greenham (2013), Neocosmicism: God and the Void. (Ph.D for Murdoch University, Australia. It “…seeks to demonstrate the validity of cosmicism as a lens through which to critically interrogate science fiction texts; it more importantly endeavors to address cosmicism’s inherent limitations as a philosophy of the human creature’s place in the universe.”)

* S.T. Joshi (2013), Cthulhu’s Empire: H. P. Lovecraft’s Influence on His Contemporaries and Successors (Appears to be a free sample, from the Salem Press book Critical Insights: Pulp Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s).

* Duran Flores Merlin Lisseth, and Pineda Zaldana Maritza Beatriz (2013), El terror u horror como eje estructurante en los cuentos “El extrano”, “El sabueso” y “El ser bajo la luz de la luna” de Howard Phillips Lovecraft. (Undergraduate dissertation, University of El Salvador. In Spanish).

Lovecraft and Synchronicity

26 Saturday Oct 2013

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New 120-page book by Renzo Giorgetti, Lovecraft and Synchronicity (EDS, Stienta 2012. In Italian). Here’s the gist of a translated review…

Giorgetti uses ideas of synchronicity theorized by [the mystic/psychotherapist] Carl Jung. [The book has a] chapter dedicated to the figure of “Nyarlathotep” [in which Lovecraft] incarnates the state of tension that unites the crowds at that particular moment in history […] because of political and social upheavals [arising in the the post-war crisis year of 1919]. Then there are seemingly daring combinations between Lovecraft and the contemporary Italian writer Massimo Bontempelli. […] Another very striking juxtaposition is in the final chapter where the music of Erik Satie is compared to that of Erich Zann. Satie — one of the greats of contemporary music — is portrayed as an eccentric and passionate about esoteric beliefs.

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Lovecraft in Sweden

11 Friday Oct 2013

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Lovecraft at Norrkoping Public Library…

“One of my responsibilities at Norrkoping Public Library is arranging academic lectures, inviting Swedish scholars and authors engaged in current cultural and scientific debate. This activity has by now developed into a form of literary salon, opening with a my dialogue with the author followed by a lecture and often a very vivid and stimulating discussion. On October 2, I invited Mattias Fyhr, Assistant Professor in Literary Criticism at Stockholm University and lecturer in Literary Criticism at Jonkoping University […] Mattias is the author of Dod men drommande: H.P. Lovecraft och den magiska modernismen (Dead But Dreaming: H.P. Lovecraft and Magic Modernism).”