H. P. Lovecraft's Dark Arcadia: The Satire, Symbology and Contradiction
Author:   Gavin Callaghan
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
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9780786470792


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   11 June 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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H. P. Lovecraft's Dark Arcadia: The Satire, Symbology and Contradiction


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This volume attempts an objective reassessment of the controversial works and life of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Ignoring secondary accounts and various received truths, Gavin Callaghan goes back to the weird texts themselves, and follows where Lovecraft leads him: into an arcane world of parental giganticism and inverted classicism, in which Lovecraft's parental obsessions were twisted into the all-powerful cosmic monsters of his imaginary cosmology.

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Author:   Gavin Callaghan
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9780786470792


ISBN 10:   0786470798
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   11 June 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Sympathy for the Shoggoths One • Dark Arcadia: Arcadia, Arkham and H. P. Lovecraft’s Process of Classical Inversion Two • The Birds and the Bees (According to H. P. Lovecraft) Three • Secrets Behind the Locked Door: Lovecraft and the Theseus Myth Four • From the Moon to the Pit: Lovecraft’s Moon-Ladder Five • Lovecraft’s In Memoriam: Phillips Gamwell and the Innsmouth Coda Six • H. P. Lovecraft and the Magna Mater Appendix Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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Gavin Callaghan is an independent writer, artist, and researcher whose works have appeared in the The Comics Journal, Lovecraft Annual, Studies in Weird Fiction, and FATE Magazine. He lives in New Port Richey, Florida.

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