The love of ruins :: letters on Lovecraft /
Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his "Cthulhu mythos" is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme in contemporary philosophy, and his racism continues to spark controversy in the media. The L...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his "Cthulhu mythos" is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme in contemporary philosophy, and his racism continues to spark controversy in the media. The Love of Ruins takes a fresh look at a figure widely acknowledged as the father of modern horror or "weird" fiction. In these pages, Lovecraft emerges not as the atheist and nihilist he is often claimed to be, but as a kind of "psychonaut" and mystic whose stories, through their own imaginative rigor, expose the intellectual bankruptcy of their author's racism. The Love of Ruins is itself written in the form of letters, in order to do homage to Lovecraft's love of the form of the personal letter (he wrote more than 100,000), and to emulate Lovecraft's lifetime practice of thinking-as-corresponding. |
| Beschreibung: | "H. P. Lovecraft's daily life revolved around correspondence. He is estimated to have written 100,000 letters in his relatively short lifetime, and 20,000 of these letters survive. . . . The following is a sequence of thirty-four letters about the work of H. P. Lovecraft, each one written from Scott to Scott, who have been writing letters to each other for more than thirty years. . . . It should be noted that the texts that follow both are and are not "real" letters. On the one hand, all of them originated as actual missives composed by one of us and sent to the other over the course of almost exactly one year; and some of them retain traces of the specific occasions in which they were thus written and sent. On the other hand, all of these letters have also been revised, rethought, reordered, by both of us, working at times on the other's work, to the point that these texts are necessarily unmoored from their literal points of origin. Many of the letters have footnotes -- some written by that letter's author and some by the other Scott. Thus this book is explicitly about questions of dialogue and voice: how many voices are there in a dialogue between some Scotts? The answer, no doubt, is that there are always less than and more than two. . . . This first in this series of letters was written on 1 August 2014, the 180th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, and the 178th anniversary of Charles Darwin's arrival in Bahai, Brazil, fresh from his voyage on the HMS Beagle. The final letter was written on July 15, 2015, the same date as the dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in 484 BCE. Lovecraft had a special fondness for the story of these cultic twins, whose temple remains today in ruins." -- Preface. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781438465128 1438465122 |
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| spelling | Shershow, Scott Cutler, 1953- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85038568 The love of ruins : letters on Lovecraft / Scott Cutler Shershow and Scott Michaelsen. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2017. 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer n rdamedia online resource nc rdacarrier SUNY Series, Literature ... in Theory "H. P. Lovecraft's daily life revolved around correspondence. He is estimated to have written 100,000 letters in his relatively short lifetime, and 20,000 of these letters survive. . . . The following is a sequence of thirty-four letters about the work of H. P. Lovecraft, each one written from Scott to Scott, who have been writing letters to each other for more than thirty years. . . . It should be noted that the texts that follow both are and are not "real" letters. On the one hand, all of them originated as actual missives composed by one of us and sent to the other over the course of almost exactly one year; and some of them retain traces of the specific occasions in which they were thus written and sent. On the other hand, all of these letters have also been revised, rethought, reordered, by both of us, working at times on the other's work, to the point that these texts are necessarily unmoored from their literal points of origin. Many of the letters have footnotes -- some written by that letter's author and some by the other Scott. Thus this book is explicitly about questions of dialogue and voice: how many voices are there in a dialogue between some Scotts? The answer, no doubt, is that there are always less than and more than two. . . . This first in this series of letters was written on 1 August 2014, the 180th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, and the 178th anniversary of Charles Darwin's arrival in Bahai, Brazil, fresh from his voyage on the HMS Beagle. The final letter was written on July 15, 2015, the same date as the dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in 484 BCE. Lovecraft had a special fondness for the story of these cultic twins, whose temple remains today in ruins." -- Preface. Includes bibliographical references and index. Letter one: prayers -- Letter two: Warnings -- Letter three: Psychonautics, sublimity, love -- Letter four: Love and ruins -- Letter five: Ruins and race -- Letter six: Ruins, sublimity, laughter -- Letter seven: Race and writing -- Letter eight: Writing and the love of ruins -- Letter nine: Race, the fourth dimension, apophasis -- Letter ten: Race, the love of wounds -- Letter eleven: Wounds, race, music and noise -- Letter twelve: Race, orientalism, writing -- Letter thirteen: Time travel, white mythology, the library -- Letter fourteen: Cities in ruins -- Letter fifteen: The late city, the decline of the west -- Letter sixteen: Basalt towers, trap doors, taboos, nameless beings -- Letter seventeen: Apophasis, science fiction, visibility and racism, impossible politics -- Letter eighteen: Archive, irruption, eruption, basalt -- Letter nineteen: The great race, the archive -- Letter twenty: Comedy and laughter -- Letter twenty-one: Class, socialism, politics -- Letter twenty-two: Doubling, indirect racism, the gift of vision, non-knowledge -- Letter twenty-three: The fourth dimension, community -- Letter twenty-four: The fourth dimension, community, unworking -- Letter twenty-five: Community, sacrifice, cults -- Letter twenty-six: Racial degeneration, police, sacrifice -- Letter twenty-seven: Sacrifice, madness, one blood, the invention of the white race, frogs -- Letter twenty-eight: Untimeliness, sacrifice, religion -- Letter twenty-nine: Religion after religion, dread -- Letter thirty: Religion, the wholesome, faith and knowledge -- Letter thirty-one: Kindness, wonder, horror -- Letter thirty-two: Hauntology, religion, science, "race" and racism -- Letter thirty-three: Modern apophasis -- Letter thirty-four: The weird, the future, the open. Description based on print version record. Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his "Cthulhu mythos" is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme in contemporary philosophy, and his racism continues to spark controversy in the media. The Love of Ruins takes a fresh look at a figure widely acknowledged as the father of modern horror or "weird" fiction. In these pages, Lovecraft emerges not as the atheist and nihilist he is often claimed to be, but as a kind of "psychonaut" and mystic whose stories, through their own imaginative rigor, expose the intellectual bankruptcy of their author's racism. The Love of Ruins is itself written in the form of letters, in order to do homage to Lovecraft's love of the form of the personal letter (he wrote more than 100,000), and to emulate Lovecraft's lifetime practice of thinking-as-corresponding. Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 Criticism and interpretation. Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 Appreciation. Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 fast LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh Art appreciation fast Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast Michaelsen, Scott (Scott J.), author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008012702 Print version: Shershow, Scott Cutler, 1953- author. Love of ruins Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2017 9781438465111 (DLC) 2016031425 SUNY series, literature ... in theory. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016150294 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1475671 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Shershow, Scott Cutler, 1953- Michaelsen, Scott (Scott J.) The love of ruins : letters on Lovecraft / SUNY series, literature ... in theory. Letter one: prayers -- Letter two: Warnings -- Letter three: Psychonautics, sublimity, love -- Letter four: Love and ruins -- Letter five: Ruins and race -- Letter six: Ruins, sublimity, laughter -- Letter seven: Race and writing -- Letter eight: Writing and the love of ruins -- Letter nine: Race, the fourth dimension, apophasis -- Letter ten: Race, the love of wounds -- Letter eleven: Wounds, race, music and noise -- Letter twelve: Race, orientalism, writing -- Letter thirteen: Time travel, white mythology, the library -- Letter fourteen: Cities in ruins -- Letter fifteen: The late city, the decline of the west -- Letter sixteen: Basalt towers, trap doors, taboos, nameless beings -- Letter seventeen: Apophasis, science fiction, visibility and racism, impossible politics -- Letter eighteen: Archive, irruption, eruption, basalt -- Letter nineteen: The great race, the archive -- Letter twenty: Comedy and laughter -- Letter twenty-one: Class, socialism, politics -- Letter twenty-two: Doubling, indirect racism, the gift of vision, non-knowledge -- Letter twenty-three: The fourth dimension, community -- Letter twenty-four: The fourth dimension, community, unworking -- Letter twenty-five: Community, sacrifice, cults -- Letter twenty-six: Racial degeneration, police, sacrifice -- Letter twenty-seven: Sacrifice, madness, one blood, the invention of the white race, frogs -- Letter twenty-eight: Untimeliness, sacrifice, religion -- Letter twenty-nine: Religion after religion, dread -- Letter thirty: Religion, the wholesome, faith and knowledge -- Letter thirty-one: Kindness, wonder, horror -- Letter thirty-two: Hauntology, religion, science, "race" and racism -- Letter thirty-three: Modern apophasis -- Letter thirty-four: The weird, the future, the open. Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 Criticism and interpretation. Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 Appreciation. Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 fast LITERARY CRITICISM American General. bisacsh Art appreciation fast |
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