{"id":17381,"date":"2018-09-25T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T06:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=17381"},"modified":"2018-09-25T09:14:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T06:14:43","slug":"hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-as-cosmic-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/09\/25\/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-as-cosmic-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as cosmic horror"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Douglas Adams’s” Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>” as a Representative of Cosmic Horror”<\/a>, a new B.A. undergraduate dissertation, in English from Hungary. Online and public. At first glance it looks short for a final dissertation, but that’s a trick of the formatting — since it does run to 6,000 words. It puts forward an interesting claim that some of this blog’s readers might want to note…<\/p>\n

Douglas Adams\u2019s Hitchhiker<\/em> series is usually labelled as science fiction. [But] Adams abandons the traditional devices of science fiction and because he borrows from cosmic horror, it could be argued that the Hitchhiker<\/em> series could be considered a representative of cosmic horror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listed as relevant factors are:<\/p>\n

* “Cosmos as a threatening entity”.
\n* “Merciful ignorance”.
\n* “Merciful lack of self-knowledge”.
\n* “Irony \u2013 the effect and technique”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Douglas Adams’s” Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” as a Representative of Cosmic Horror”, a new B.A. undergraduate dissertation, in English …<\/p>\n

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