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E-grāmata: Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming [Taylor & Francis e-book]

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  • Formāts: 314 pages, 11 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sērija : Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
  • Izdošanas datums: 31-Dec-2021
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9780367713065
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  • Formāts: 314 pages, 11 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sērija : Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
  • Izdošanas datums: 31-Dec-2021
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9780367713065
Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecrafts influence in contemporary times. Building on a focus centered on the Anthropocene, adaptation, and visual media, the chapters in this collection focus on the following topics:













Adaptation of Lovecrafts legacy in theater, television, film, graphic narratives, video games and game artwork





The connection between the writers legacy and his life





Reading Lovecraft in light of contemporary criticism about capitalism, the posthuman, and the Anthropocene





How contemporary authors have worked through the implicit racial and sexual politics in Lovecrafts fiction





Reading Lovecrafts fiction in light of contemporary approaches to gender and sexuality
Acknowledgments x
List of Contributors
xi
Introduction 1(11)
Antonio Alcala Gonzalez
Carl H. Sederholm
1 Lovecraft and the Stage: A Recent (Re)Discovery
12(16)
Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
2 Lovecraftian Landscapes and Cosmic Horror in HBO's True Detective (2014)
28(15)
Elisabete Lopes
3 An Uncanny Absence: Lovecraft in Brazilian Cinema, 1975--2016
43(14)
Lucio Reis Filho
Sheila Schvarzman
4 The Masks of E'ch-Pi-El: Interpreting the Life and Work of H.P. Lovecraft
57(14)
John Glover
5 "It's like a maze you can't see": Comics Cryptomimesis of Lovecraft and the Lovecraftian in Alan Moore's Neonomicon (2004--2005) and Providence (2015--2017)
71(19)
Stuart L. Lindsay
6 Man or Cartoon: H.P. Lovecraft as a Comics Character
90(13)
Tom Shapira
7 Drawing the Unknowable - Lovecraft's Cosmic Horror in Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone
103(15)
Suzanne Albary
Richard Albary
8 Nuclear Inhumanities: H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space" and the Dread of Contamination
118(14)
Ian Fetters
9 An Eldritch Crisis: Capitalist Paradigms in the Cthulhu Mythos
132(11)
Daniel Doncel
10 Lovecraft's Viral Networks: A Contaminated Ethics for the Chthulucene
143(15)
Natasha Rebry Coulthard
11 "It Was the Vegetation": Ecophobia and Monstrous Wilderness in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft
158(14)
Fredrik Blanc
12 Nautical Horror and the Anthropocene: Lovecraftian Monsters in William Eubank's Underwater
172(14)
Antonio Alcala Gonzalez
13 Racial (In)Visibility, Cosmic Indifference: Reimagining H.P. Lovecraft's Legacy in Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom (2016)
186(15)
Kathleen Hudson
14 Finding "Something and Not Nothing": Women of Color Repurposing Lovecraft in the Posthuman 21st Century
201(12)
Loren Barbour
15 The Crawling Chaos: H.P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and "Dungeon Crawler" Videogames
213(14)
Kevin Corstorphine
Matthew Crofts
16 Dreaming in Layers: Lovecraftian Storyworlds in Interactive Media
227(14)
Eoin Murray
17 "Bringing Uncertain Geographies Under Control"? Exploring the Lovecraftian `Walking Simulator'
241(12)
David Simmons
18 Queering Cthulhu: Reclaiming Lovecraft's Monstrous Others
253(15)
Nowell Marshall
19 Weird Bedfellows: H.P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk's Wbyborne & Griffin Series
268(16)
Brian Johnson
20 Lovecraft, Hauntology, and the Rhetoric of Unthinkability
284(11)
Michael Cerliano
21 Falling into the Void: "Nyarlathotep"
295(13)
Carl H. Sederholm
Index 308
Antonio Alcala Gonzalez is founder of the International Gothic Literature Congress and chair of the Humanities Department at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City.

Carl H. Sederholm is professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University and chair of the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters.