More Open Lovecraft

24 Friday Jan 2014

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* Jon Cogburn and Mark Allan Ohm (2013), “Actual Qualities of Imaginative Things: notes towards an object oriented literary theory” (Contemporary Lovecraftian philosophy).

* Mary Corr (2013), “Dr. Franklin C. Clark: early mentor to H.P. Lovecraft — the master of ‘weird tales’”, Rhode Island Medical Journal, December 2013, pp. 73-74. (Factually correct, but only a short magazine ‘filler’ article).

* Milosz Wisniewski (2013), “Swiat Howarda Philipsa Lovecrafta w ujeciu religioznawczym”, Humaniora: Czasopismo Internetowe, No.1, 2013, pp. 99–105. (In Polish, with English abstract. Applies the theories of Romanian researcher Mircea Eliade to Lovecraft’s mythology).

The Bowery Boys podcasts

22 Wednesday Jan 2014

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The Bowery Boys have a new podcast on New York history, which takes a look at a topic Lovecraft was intimately familiar with: Green-wood Cemetery in New York City. An older podcast from them is on The British Invasion, 1776, another topic on which Lovecraft knew the minutest details. These two are somewhat linked, as the first shooting engagement in 1776 was on Martense Lane, now known as Border Avenue, which borders Green-wood Cemetery on the southern side. The lane was named after the Martense family, among whom at the very first in America there was a Jan Martense and also a Gerrit Martense — names that both occur in Lovecraft’s “The Lurking Fear”.

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Bifrost #73

22 Wednesday Jan 2014

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Special Lovecraft edition of the French-language magazine Bifrost (latest, #73)…

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My approximate translation of the contents page:

H.P. Lovecraft : A Life, by Bertrand Bonnet.

Precursors and influences : the literary roots of H.P. Lovecraft, by Bertrand Bonnet.

Lovecraft and his myth, by Raphael Granier de Cassagnac.

Call of Cthulhu : a subjective analysis of cosmic terror, by Laurent Kloetzer.

Lovecraft in France : a short tale of his critical reception, by Bertrand Bonnet.

Good trade, accursed books, by Bertrand Bonnet.

Outlining the unspeakable, a Lovecraftian reading guide.

More Open Lovecraft

18 Saturday Jan 2014

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* Bradley Allen Will (1998, 2013), The “supramundane”: The Kantian sublime in Lovecraft, Clarke, and Gibson”. (Ph.D. thesis, placed online 2013. Explores the sublime experience of discovering something that exceeds human understanding).

* Steven E. Jones (2013), The Emergence of the Digital Humanities: Chapter 2, “Dimensions”. (Has several pages on ideas of “Lovecraftian dimensionality” in relation to knowledge).

* Duran Flores Merlin Lisseth and Pineda Zaldana Maritza Beatriz (2013), “El terror u horror como eje estructurante en los cuentos “El extrano”, “El sabueso” y “El ser bajo la luz de la luna” de Howard Phillips Lovecraft” (Joint undergraduate disseration, University of El Salvador).

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16 Thursday Jan 2014

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* Tanya Krzywinska (2013), “Digital games and the American gothic: investigating gothic game grammar”, Intersemiose, Vol.2, No.4, July-Dec 2013. (About videogames, not tabletop RPGs).

* Sonja M. Karlas (2013), “Kosmicki horor, gotsko telo i tekst: H.P. Lovecraft “senka nad insmutom”, Journal for Languages and Literatures of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sadu, Vol.3, No.3, 2013. (Title translates as “Cosmic horror, gothic bodies and texts: H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth”).

* Paulo de Tarso Cabrini Jr., (2013), “A literatura espirita: angelo inacio e os contos de H.P. Lovecraft”, Revista Litteris, Vol.2, No.12, Sept 2013. (In Portuguese. Theorises about spiritualist literature, and looks at so-called ‘spirit dictated’ spiritualist books in relation to Lovecraft).