{"id":25676,"date":"2019-05-16T11:49:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T08:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=25676"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:49:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T08:49:58","slug":"the-lovecraftian-poe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/05\/16\/the-lovecraftian-poe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: The Lovecraftian Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dated by Amazon for a 1st June 2019 release, in a somewhat affordable \u00a330 paperback, is The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation<\/a><\/em>. Although the expensive hardback, aimed at university libraries, appeared back in 2017. <\/p>\n

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There are only two reviews I can find, the first being from John Tresch in the journal Poe Studies<\/em>…<\/p>\n

The book… “capitalizes on the Lovecraft revival to make clear the profound debts Lovecraft and his followers owed to Poe.” […] “it is the first to concentrate on the relation between these two enormously influential authors”. The book’s Introduction points out that… \u201cLovecraft became a conduit through which Poe passed into the modern genres of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and weird fiction”.<\/p>\n

“Slawomir Studniarz undertakes what he describes as a ‘new, unprejudiced look at Lovecraft\u2019s poems’ and reveals their allegiance to Poe\u2019s poetics” […] “Studniarz concludes that Lovecraft is a better, or at least a more Poe-like, poet than critics have realized.”<\/p>\n

Michael Cisco shows that the comic horror of both authors derives from depicting… “the inability to distinguish between inner and outer, psychology and physics”. Yet the cosmic… “unholy, essentially unstable quasi-matters” are tackled empirically by… “detectives, scientists, and amateur scholars seeking explanations for troubling facts”.<\/p>\n

“Dan Clinton\u2019s outstanding essay \u201cThe Call of Ligeia\u201d traces links between the cosmic vision of each author and the historically specific fields of science with which they engaged.”<\/p>\n

“Ben Woodard\u2019s essay \u201cThe Killing Crowd\u201d connects Poe\u2019s urban quasi-mystery \u201cThe Man of the Crowd\u201d to Lovecraft\u2019s \u201cThe Horror at Red Hook,\u201d both of which offer lurid views of a city\u2019s nightlife — London for Poe, and a hellish South Brooklyn for Lovecraft” [where these tales] “present the modern city as a medium, a site in which technologies of organization, knowledge, and visibility attempt to contain yet in fact expose and magnify ungovernable forms of monstrosity while burying the hidden truth of ‘deep crime’, the secret which in Poe\u2019s tale cannot be read.”<\/p>\n

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The second review is from Travis Montgomery in the Edgar Allan Poe Review<\/em>…<\/p>\n

The book is… “an important step toward filling a critical gap”.<\/p>\n

“In Chapter 4, Michael Cisco deems Kant, not Burke, the purveyor of the sublimity associated with the ‘cosmic horror’ that fascinated Poe and Lovecraft as storytellers, but the essay is thin on commentary that would help readers appreciate that Kantian influence.”<\/p>\n

“Chapter 6 contains Waugh\u2019s meandering yet intriguing interpretations of that [cat \/ staring eyes ] imagery. Especially fascinating is his suggestion that feline images in \u201cThe Black Cat\u201d and \u201cThe Rats in the Walls\u201d signal the narrators\u2019 aristocratic aspirations, desires that underline class themes in the tales.”<\/p>\n

[Despite some fuzziness and mis-steps] “Clinton\u2019s investigation of the ways that Poe and his American successor ‘trace literary effects to enduring features of human perception’ is arresting in its originality”.<\/p>\n

“Conspicuous [typo] errors appear in the text […] Such things should not surface in a book so expensive.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dated by Amazon for a 1st June 2019 release, in a somewhat affordable \u00a330 paperback, is The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays …<\/p>\n

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