{"id":2351,"date":"2011-07-29T17:22:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T14:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2011-07-29T17:22:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T14:22:33","slug":"open-lovecraft-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/07\/29\/open-lovecraft-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Lovecraft scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/open-lovecraft\/\">Now continued in much expanded form<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>My quick unearthing of some of the most recent substantial open Lovecraft dissertations, theses and papers to arrive online (for free):<\/p>\n<p>Matolcsy Kalman. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/dea.unideb.hu\/dea\/bitstream\/2437\/102101\/5\/MK_dissertation-t.pdf\">Confronting the Boundless and Hideous Unknown: science, categorization, and naming in H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s fiction<\/a><\/em>. December 2010.  In English.<\/p>\n<p>Eric LaFreniere. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmu.edu\/mwa\/docs\/2010b\/lafreniere.pdf\">An Awe-ful Integrity: The Science-Fiction Horror of H. P. Lovecraft<\/a><\/em>.  Winner of 2nd prize in the James Madison University Writing Awards. In English.  Possibly an undergraduate final-year dissertation?<\/p>\n<p>Kristjon Runar Halldorsson. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/skemman.is\/stream\/get\/1946\/6241\/17861\/1\/HP_Lovecraft_Enlightenment_and_connection_to_cosmicism.pdf\">H.P. Lovecraft: The Enlightenment &amp; connection to the world of Cosmicism<\/a><\/em>.  Sept 2010.  In English.<\/p>\n<p>Jean Carlo Lavoie Montemiglio. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca\/jspui\/bitstream\/1866\/3469\/2\/Lavoie_Montemiglio_Jean-Carlo_2009_these.pdf\">H.P. Lovecraft: etude comparative de recits des origines<\/a><\/em>.  August 2009.  In French.  English summary. [&#8220;&#8230; a close comparison of similar motifs present in Lovecraft\u2019s novella, <em>At the Mountains of Madness<\/em> and in Hesiod\u2019s poem, <em>Theogony<\/em>&#8220;]<\/p>\n<p>Cecile Cristofari. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inter-disciplinary.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cristofariepaper.pdf\">The Tainted Birth in Lovecraft\u2019s Fiction<\/a>&#8220;. Conference paper. Appears to be April 2011.<\/p>\n<p>James Kneale.  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/discovery.ucl.ac.uk\/404550\/1\/404550.pdf\">Monstrous and Haunted Media: H.P. Lovecraft and Early Twentieth-Century Communications Technology<\/a>&#8220;.  Appears to be Feb 2011. His earlier paper &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/peer.ccsd.cnrs.fr\/docs\/00\/57\/21\/72\/PDF\/PEER_stage2_10.1191%252F1474474005eu353oa.pdf\">From beyond: H. P. Lovecraft and the place of horror<\/a>&#8221; is also available, originally in <em>Cultural Geographies<\/em> 13, 1 (2006), pp. 106-126.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Update: Now continued in much expanded form) My quick unearthing of some of the most recent substantial open Lovecraft dissertations, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/07\/29\/open-lovecraft-scholarship\/\">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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","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=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}