{"id":32905,"date":"2019-10-20T05:49:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T02:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=32905"},"modified":"2022-04-24T21:59:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T21:59:30","slug":"dimensione-cosmica-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/10\/20\/dimensione-cosmica-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"“Dimensione Cosmica” returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dimensione Cosmica<\/em> has returned to regular quarterly publication in Winter 2018, after being absent for some years. This is an Italian language magazine of non-fiction, reviews and interviews, with a strong focus on the history of the fantastic.<\/p>\n

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Translated, titles of selected historical and Lovecraft articles for the issues to date…<\/p>\n

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No. 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Lovecraft at 80. [Perhaps an article on Lovecraft’s ‘baseline’ presence in Italy in either 1970 (age 80) or 1980?]<\/p>\n

* The Italian Star Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* J.R.R. Tolkien, a professor with many anniversaries.<\/p>\n

* Arthur Machen, scribe of miracles and magical realist.<\/p>\n

* James Allison, a forgotten hero. [R.E. Howard]<\/p>\n

* Conan<\/em> and the Ninth Art. [R.E. Howard]<\/p>\n

* Gnome Press: when science fiction conquered books.<\/p>\n

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No. 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Neo-symbolism: features for an exegesis of the fantastic literature of Alex Voglino.<\/p>\n

* The Babel Catalog: E. Vegetti: the story of a friend and his endless work.<\/p>\n

* The Cosmic Dimension<\/em> interviews: Alan Lee, the art of Middle-earth. [A leading Tolkien illustrator]<\/p>\n

* The damned Bran Mak Morn. [R.E. Howard]<\/p>\n

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No. 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Challenge to infinity: Futurism and the future.<\/p>\n

* The thousand faces of Solomon Kane. [R.E. Howard]<\/p>\n

* Welcome to the “Bradbury Center”. [Perhaps a Ray Bradbury museum in Italy?]<\/p>\n

* The kingdom of Hyperborea, between horror and decadence [R.E. Howard]<\/p>\n

* Is there a fantastic fiction crisis?<\/p>\n

* Sounds from deep space: when music meets science fiction.<\/p>\n

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No. 4.<\/strong><\/p>\n

* Scientification: Alternative History of Italian Science Fiction.<\/p>\n

* Ursula K. Le Guin: a true glory?<\/p>\n

* Fantastica “Made in Italy” and the foreign market: a conversation with Alessandro Manzetti.<\/p>\n

* 1828-2018: Verne is dead, live Verne! [Presumably a history of the reception and afterlives of Jules Verne in Italy?]<\/p>\n

* Frazetta: when the flesh becomes art.<\/p>\n

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No. 5. <\/strong><\/p>\n

* Tolkien between Myth, Symbol and Literature.<\/p>\n

* Tale of the Holy Grail and Lord of the Rings: two “intertwining” stories.<\/p>\n

* The “Cosmic Dimension” in comics. [inc. Kirby]<\/p>\n

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No. 6<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

* Mr. Urania: memories of Giuseppe Lippi. [Memories of the leading Italian Lovecraftian, by multiple authors]<\/p>\n

* Of the attempt to obscure Tolkien. [Perhaps a history of the attempts at erasure by leftist critics, in the 1970s and 80s?]<\/p>\n

* “Lo Smeraldo”: the dream-apocalyptic journey of Mario Soldati in the Italy of the future.<\/p>\n

* Robert E. Howard and the Italian writers of the fantastic.<\/p>\n

* Providence: between Lovecraft and Moore. [Presumably a review of Alan Moore’s completed Providence<\/em> comic?]<\/p>\n

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No. 7<\/a><\/strong> (summer 2019).<\/p>\n

* Mystery is my job: interview with Alfredo Castelli.<\/p>\n

* A nineteenth-century French Tarzan<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* The return of the myths of Cthulhu. [At a total guess, perhaps a survey of how clueless and gullible many modern ‘fans’ are about Lovecraft and his original mythos?]<\/p>\n

* “From an enthusiastic Frenchman”: a letter from Jacques Bergier to Weird Tales<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The originals are in Italian, and the above are just my translations. The magazine also carries regular book reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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