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
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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.
11 Wednesday Jan 2012
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An interesting sounding new book from Livepool University Press in the UK, Gothic Science Fiction: 1980-2010 (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies)
“This timely book explores what might be termed Gothic science fiction of the last three decades, 1980-2010. Identifying texts by this category may at first appear contradictory, as the Gothic’s connotations of the irrational and supernatural seems to conflict with science fiction’s rational foundations. However, this collection demonstrates that the two categories have rich intersections.”
04 Wednesday Jan 2012
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Another conference to add to the list of those taking place in 2012 on monsters and the monstrous. Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Conception of Monstrous Embodiment is on 15th June 2012 to 16th June 2012, at the University of Edinburgh (in the far north of the UK)…
“It will direct an interdisciplinary gaze towards the spaces where the experience and representation of the deformed or monstrous body meet, not only in medical or scientific accounts, but also in literature, film, and the visual arts. We hope to explore these representations specifically with regards to the deformed body’s sensuality and sexuality, aspects of being which it has traditionally been denied.”
03 Tuesday Jan 2012
Posted in Historical context, Podcasts etc., Scholarly works
A video of the panel on Lovecraft at the Seattle Art Museum in 2011. Sound is rather rough, so if anyone wants to do subtitles then it would be appreciated.
31 Saturday Dec 2011
Posted in Scholarly works
India’s The Hindu newspaper (their equivalent of the London Times or the New York Times) has a profile of S.T. Joshi…
“Meet S.T. Joshi, prolific scholar and authority on horror and weird fiction. I think it is just fantastic that the greatest and most prolific scholar and bibliographer of horror fiction in the world is an Indian. (I mean, how refreshing to find an Indian scholar working on something other than post-colonial/subaltern studies.)”
19 Monday Dec 2011
Posted in Scholarly works
Scientific American fisks the geology of At The Mountains of Madness.
Above: tunicates that live in the coastal water of Antarctica.
12 Monday Dec 2011
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
S.T. Joshi’s blog has updated. It includes, among other items, news of the new illustrated version of the biography which should be published in Autumn 2012…
“…heavily illustrated biography of Lovecraft (the tentative title — which I don’t care for — is H.P. Lovecraft: Nightmare Countries), to be distributed exclusively in Barnes & Noble bookstores. […] I hope to suggest or supply numerous illustrative matter, including photographs of Lovecraft (probably drawing on the extensive collection assembled by Donovan Loucks), copies of letters or manuscripts, and so forth.”