05 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
Added to my comprehensive ‘Lovecraft on the Web’ directory: Incognitum Hactenus, a new scholarly journal.
The first issue (available now) includes Ben Woodard’s essay “A Nature to Pulp the Stoutest Philosopher: Towards a Lovecraftian Philosophy of Nature”.
The journal is an offshoot of The Real Horror Symposium (London, October 2010). The second issue is on “Gods and Monsters”, and is pencilled in for release on 12th March 2012.
Above: gratuitous-but-awesome picture of a shoggoth, by Eclectix.
04 Sunday Mar 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Maps, Scholarly works
Aajor new research effort into the history and uses of Maps in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
28 Tuesday Feb 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Not really very relevant to Lovecraft (perhaps the nearest Lovecraft gets to this ancient theme is “The Strange High House in the Mist”?), but interesting enough to mention here…
“A two-day multidisciplinary conference will take place in Trinity College Dublin, 20th-21st July 2012, to explore the role of green man and wild man motifs in twentieth and twenty-first century children’s culture.”
26 Sunday Feb 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Keele University (North Staffordshire, England) is to host a conference of historians and literary specialists that may appeal to Lovecraftian scholars in the UK. “Science and Literature, 1800 to Present: Two Cultures or Co-evolution?” is a postgraduate conference set for 12th May 2012. The event will examine the long history of interplays between the sciences and the arts, seen most especially in science fiction.
25 Saturday Feb 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A paywalled Penn State University Press academic journal, Preternature, is seeing papers for a special issue on: “Monstrophy: The Academic Study of Monsters”…
“Preternature is an interdisciplinary forum for the study of the preternatural as seen in magics, witchcraft, spiritualism, occultism, prophecy, monstrophy, demonology, and folklore. The journal embraces a broad and dynamic definition of the preternatural. […] Contributions are welcome from any discipline, time period, or geographic provenance, so long as the discussion highlights the cultural, literary, religious, or historical significance of the topic. Final Papers are due 15th April 2012.”
17 Friday Feb 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Scholarly works
A special issue of the academic SANE comics journal, Vol.1, No.2 (2011), is on “Teaching the Works of Alan Moore”. Open Access, so the journal is freely available online.
16 Thursday Feb 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Interesting article from 2004, online for free…
Evans, Timothy H., “Tradition and illusion: antiquarianism, tourism and horror in H.P. Lovecraft“, Extrapolation 45:2 (2004), pages 176-195.
15 Wednesday Feb 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Maps, Scholarly works
Jason Thompson has completed his giant colour map of Lovecraft’s Dreamlands…
A giant 24 x 36 inch wall-poster version, printing now, can be purchased here.
07 Tuesday Feb 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Just published, The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic is a book which examines queer fiction from 1980 to 2007. It joins last year’s The Lesbian Fantastic: A Critical Study of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal and Gothic Writings.
05 Sunday Feb 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A new page on the blog, Open Lovecraft. It collects all the open access / free scholarly works I’ve been pointing to recently, and orders them by date.
05 Sunday Feb 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
More interesting academic works, freely available online.
* A chapter in a Masters disseratation in History, relevant to Lovecraft…
“The Yellow Peril: the American Pulps Between the World Wars, 1919-1935” in: Nathan Vernon Madison (2010), Isolationism, Internationalism and the ‘Other’: The Yellow Peril, German Brute and Red Menace in Earlyto Mid Twentieth Century Pulp Magazines and Comic Books.
* A doctoral thesis…
Jonathan Maximilian Gilbert (2008), “The Horror, the Horror”: the Origins of a Genre in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1880–1914.
* Chapter three in a Masters dissertation on horror as a sort of “self-medication”…
“‘All the Cosmos is a Jest’: Preemptive Trauma Mediation in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft”, in: Jacob M. Hodgen (2008), ‘Boot Camp for the Psyche’: Inoculative Nonfiction and Pre-Memory Structures as Preemptive Trauma Mediation in Fiction and Film.
30 Monday Jan 2012
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
The archive of the Die Untonen [The Undead]: Life Science and Pulp Fiction symposium proceedings are now online, for free. The event was held in Hamburg, Germany (12-14th May 2011) and was an interesting mashup of academic talks, science, art, workshops and performances…
“A unique interdisciplinary meeting of experts from the biotechnology, medical professionals, bioethicists, philosophers, theologians, legal jurists, health workers, artists, film and media makers and pop icons. The visitors and experts come together in unexpected combinations and on various issues in rooms that modeled after film sets (Hospital, Cemetery, Laboratory and Cinema – and so typical places of production and negotiation of the “undead”). The visitors can move freely through the entire setting at any time. All conversations, lectures, presentations, performances and experiments are recorded and broadcast live, so that the recipient can independently of their position in a set of infrared receivers and headphones to listen to every situation.”