Additions to the Open Lovecraft page…

* Thomas B. Whitbread (2005), “Samuel Loveman: poet of Eros and Thanatos”, The Fossil, Vol.101, No.4, July 2005.

* Kwzia L’Engle de Figueiredo Heye (2003), “Weird fiction and the unholy glee of H.P. Lovecraft”. (Masters disseration for the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, online from July 2012. In English. Asks if the concept of weird fiction can be classified simply as a sub-genre of horror, or if it constitutes a genre of its own).

* Bobbi Sinha-Morey (2007), “Fungi: the Poetry of H.P. Lovecraft”, Calenture, Vol.2, No.2, January 2007. (The H.P. Lovecraft special issue).

* Phillip A. Ellis (2007), “The Construction of Race in the Early Poetry of H.P. Lovecraft”, Calenture, Vol.2, No.2, January 2007. (The H.P. Lovecraft special issue).

* Anon. (2008), “The Fungi from Yuggoth: a Concordance”, Calenture, Vol.3, No.3, May 2008.

* Frank Coffmann (2006), “H.P. Lovecraft and the Fungi from Yuggoth Sonnets (part one)”, Calenture, Vol.2, No.1, September 2006.

* Pino Lasone (2007), “Asenath and Leucothea: female figures from the sea of literary fiction”, Calenture, Vol.2, No.3, May 2007.

* Af Simon Hesselager Johansen (2011), “Tilstedevaeren ved Vanviddets Bjerge: Martin Heidegger, H.P. Lovecraft og mellemkrigstidens elitære konservatisme”, Tanken: studieblad for filosfi, No.4, 2011 (Short article in Danish, title translates as something like “On the Folly of Climbing Mountains: Martin Heidegger, H.P. Lovecraft and interwar elitist conservatism).

* James L. Aevermann (2009), “The Destruction of the Hero: an examination of the hero’s purpose in Lovecraft’s works”, IN: Huppert (Ed.), Where Fear Lurks: Perspectives on Fear, Horror and Terror, Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2009.

Added to the Open Lovecraft page…

* Ben Woodard (2010), “Thinking Against Nature: nature, ideation, and realism between Lovecraft and Schelling”, Speculations journal, No.1, pp.47-65.

* The journal Antartes: prospettive antimoderne, No.00, 2011. (Special Lovecraft issue, in Italian only).

* Cecile Cristofari (2012), “Le temps du reve lovecraftien, ou l’elaboration d’un temps du mythe”, e-lla, May 2012. (In French. In the online journal of the University of Provence, France. Title translates as: “The dreamtime Lovecraft, or a development from the times of myth”. Essay tests the application of the Australian Aboriginal idea of ‘the dreamtime’ to key Lovecraft stories).

* Tomi Vatanen (2010), “Tuntemattomiem Kaahujen Tutkijat: maailmankuva H.P. Lovecraftin novelleissa” (Title translates as “The Unknown Terrors of Researchers: the worldview of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories”. In Finnish. Appears to be a Masters dissertation from Finland).

A thesis, newly deposited online:

Rodolfo Munoz Casado (2000), Los mitos de Cthulhu como movimiento literario, Ph.D. thesis. Madrid, deposited online 2012. In Spanish.

“analyses the so-called Cthulhu Mythos as a true literary movement […] the Cthulhu Mythos fiction has a fundamental unity and a prominence within a literary genre, and it is not commercial work to be considered as lower in quality or importance.”

New addition to the Open Lovecraft page…

* Hannah Spencer (2011), “Semantic Prosody in Literary Analysis: a corpus based stylistic study of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories”, Masters dissertation, University of Huddersfield, UK.

“uncovers linguistic aspects of Lovecraft’s stories that could not be detected intuitively, and provides a firm basis for some subjective literary assumptions.”

* Ronald St. Pierre (2004), “Never Fully Realize”: Birth of a Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft’s “Dagon”, Shoin Literary Review, No.37, pp.15-36. (Literary journal of Kobe Shoin Women’s University, Japan).

Added to the Open Lovecraft page:

* Marek Wilczynski (2008), “Secret passage through Poe: the transatlantic affinities of H.P. Lovecraft and Stefan Grabinski”, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 44, 2008.

* David Farnell (2007), “In a mirror, darkly”: finding ourselves reflected in the aliens of Melville, Lovecraft, Dick, and Butler”, Fukuoka University Review of Literature & Humanities, Vol.39, 1, 2007, pp.105-127.

* Malotcsy Kalman (2004), “The Innsmouth “Thing”: Monstrous Androgyny in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Thing on the Doorstep”, Gender Studies, Vol.1, No.3, 2004.

An M.A. thesis from a religious university, currently only available via Google “Quick View”…

Geoffrey Reiter (2005), “A Dark Poem”: Lovecraft and his Puritans.

“This work examines the fiction and letters of H.P. Lovecraft […] and seeks to explore the way in which he incorporated Puritanism into his works and artistic philosophy, despite the fact that his materialistic worldview would not permit him to accept Puritan doctrinal tenets.”

It can be found with a Google “Quick View” link, via the following Google Search query:

   lovecraft “Puritanism and Christianity” filetype:pdf

A new undergraduate final dissertation, freely available online. From Iceland, in English…

Sindri Eldon (2012), “Fully Human: gender conflict in two tales by H.P. Lovecraft”…

An analysis of gender conflict and the opposing natures of the female and the male in […] “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” and “The Thing on the Doorstep”.

Added to the Open Lovecraft page:

Eric Hoefler (2005), “Lovecraft Rising: Tracing the Growth of Scholarship on Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 1990-2004”.

Added to the Open Lovecraft page, listing Lovecraft scholarship freely available online…

* Patricia MacCormack (2007), “Baroque Intensity: Lovecraft, Le Fanu and the Fold”, Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, No.2, March 2007.

* Leandro Antonio de Almeida (2005), “Reflexoes sobre aspectos da obra de H.P. Lovecraft”, Organon, Vol.19, No.38-39. (French analysis of “Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family” and “The Lurking Fear”).