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.”
27 Friday Jan 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Sandro D. Fossemo. “Cosmic terror from Poe to Lovecraft: the fear of unknown from the abyss of the soul to cosmic chaos“. (Seems to have been published online Dec 2010. No traces found suggesting it has been made available other than online).
[ Hat-tip: Francesco Salvatore ]
25 Wednesday Jan 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A nice new footnotes plugin for WordPress, which may be of interest to blogging Lovecraft scholars. It uses simple square brackets, which must have a number at the start of them. It accepts HTML links inside the brackets. I’d love to see this plugin come as standard with the free WordPress.com -hosted blogs…
To have the smaller font size on the footnotes, paste this CSS into your theme’s styles CSS, probably at the foot of the font section. The plugin doesn’t add this CSS automatically.
24 Tuesday Jan 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A couple of new academic full-text works of interest, freely available online…
* Joakim Bengtsson. Tentative outline: the Ending and the Solution of Conflicts in [? name truncated, title not on document – probably “…the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft”]. 10,000 words, seems to be a Masters dissertation? Sweden, but in English. The author appears in the cast list for the Swedish Lovecraftian short movie “Fyren” (‘Keeper of the Light’, 2009).
* Johan Wijkmark. “One of the Most Intensely Exciting Secrets”: The Antarctic in American Literature, 1820-1849. Karlstad University, 2009. Seems to be a PhD thesis, prettified as a monograph by the university press. In English.
17 Tuesday Jan 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A couple of interesting academic works in open PDF form, from 2011…
The Indigenous Gothic Novel: tribal twists, native monsters, and the politics of appropriation, by Amy Elizabeth Gore. M.A. dissertation, 2011.
“Bibliographica Necronomica : selections from the literature of grimoires, cursed books and unholy bindings” by Kurt X. Metzmeier. Newsletter of Legal History & Rare Books (Special Interest Section, American Association of Law Libraries), Volume 17 Number 2, Fall 2011.
14 Saturday Jan 2012
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
Chris Powell’s “The Revised Adolphe Danziger de Castro“, free…
“The following article was published in the Spring 1997 (Number 36) edition of Lovecraft Studies, a small, academic journal for devotees of H.P. Lovecraft and fiction of the weird. It describes a phase of Danziger’s writing career where he used ghostwriters to revise and improve his writing. Most notable among those ghostwriters was horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.”
12 Thursday Jan 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Independent scholars seeking free access to full-text articles in academic journals may be interested in my JURN search-engine. Built over three years, JURN now indexes and searches 4,336 free ejournals in the arts & humanities. These are a mix of full “open access” journals, and serious publications that simply put some or all of their content online for free.
I also have a JURN Directory, an organised single-page display of 3,000 links to all the English-language titles indexed in JURN.
Both resources are kept free of link-rot via regular automated checks.