{"id":12988,"date":"2014-08-31T18:19:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T15:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=12988"},"modified":"2014-08-31T18:19:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T15:19:59","slug":"alan-moore-on-lovecraft-and-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/08\/31\/alan-moore-on-lovecraft-and-providence\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Moore On Lovecraft and Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/16129-alan-moore-providence-cthulhu-philosophy-language-lovecraft\">&#8220;All About Alienation: Alan Moore On Lovecraft and <em>Providence<\/em>&#8220;<\/a>, in <em>The Quietus<\/em>, the modern online equivalent of the 1980s <em>NME<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As an extension of their recent interview, Nick Talbot speaks to Alan Moore about the language and philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft and his upcoming ten-part Cthulhu Mythos [comic-book] work <em>Providence<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Moore on Lovecraft scholarship. I think he has in mind the clear straightforward approach of Joshi&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Providence<\/em> is [&#8230;] set in 1919, or at least the first ten issues are, and I have researched the hell out of it. But one of the things I&#8217;ve realised, I&#8217;ve got about two shelves of just Lovecraft criticism &mdash; <em>Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy<\/em>; <em>H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West<\/em> &mdash; and it&#8217;s changed my opinion of literary criticism [&#8230;] reading these pieces [of Lovecraftian scholarship] has completely changed my [inverted snobbery regarding establishment academic litcrit language]. Not about all of them, some of them are basically saying very little in as many words as possible, but that is not a fair characterisation of a lot of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/hplcomic1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/hplcomic1.jpg\" alt=\"hplcomic\" width=\"508\" height=\"203\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12990\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All About Alienation: Alan Moore On Lovecraft and Providence&#8220;, in The Quietus, the modern online equivalent of the 1980s NME&#8230; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/08\/31\/alan-moore-on-lovecraft-and-providence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}