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.
New page on the blog: Open Lovecraft
05 Sunday Feb 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Category Archives: Scholarly works
More open Lovecraft scholarship
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.
The Undead: Life Science and Pulp Fiction – proceedings now online
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.”
Cosmic terror from Poe to Lovecraft
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 ]
Footnotes for WordPress
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.
More academic works
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.
More recent academic work
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.
The Revised Adolphe Danziger de Castro
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.”
JURN
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.
Gothic Science Fiction: 1980-2010
11 Wednesday Jan 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
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.”
Sensualising Deformity
04 Wednesday Jan 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
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.”
Panel on Lovecraft at the Seattle Art Museum
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.