{"id":25178,"date":"2019-05-01T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T10:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=25178"},"modified":"2019-05-01T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T10:03:08","slug":"joshi-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/joshi-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshi in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

S. T. Joshi has a new blog post<\/a>. He’s visited ‘Clark Ashton Smith country’ in sunny California, and has photos… <\/p>\n

“we made an exhaustive tour of the CAS sites”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the commemorative plaques for Clark Ashton Smith uses a word I had not heard used before… \u201cisolationist\u201d (i.e., a recluse)”. It’s certainly not a British word, used in that context. Though I had known it from commentators and scholars of American history and foreign policy, where it’s used to encapsulate a national policy stance. <\/p>\n

A 1982 book on the poet Wordsworth noted… “It was the thought of writing The Recluse that supported Wordsworth in his isolationist position.” One can find the word in Writers Workshop<\/em> (1961), talking of poets who ‘live what they believe’ and thus… “they are truly isolationist, recluse”. Further back it’s found in The American Journal of Individual Psychology<\/em> (1953)… “The isolationist belongs here [in this category], the hermit, the recluse”. That’s the earliest I can find it used in that sense, and my feeling is it probably a new-coined meaning which emerged from psychology or psychological ‘writing about writers’, shortly after the war, rather than from some pre-1945 religious tradition of hermitage.<\/p>\n

Joshi’s new blog post also notes a new book…<\/p>\n

The PS Book of Fantastic Fictioneers<\/a><\/em> is finally close to publication by PS Publishing in the UK. This immense two-volume compilation presents a series of essays on notable authors of weird and speculative fiction (including several filmmakers and contributors to other media), all lavishly illustrated with interesting documents and other items. I contributed four or five essays. This project has long been in the works, and I am gratified to see it finally appear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S. T. Joshi has a new blog post. He’s visited ‘Clark Ashton Smith country’ in sunny California, and has photos… …<\/p>\n

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