| The Love of Ruins: Letters on Lovecraft Contributor(s): Shershow, Scott Cutler (Author), Michaelsen, Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438465106 ISBN-13: 9781438465104 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| Series: Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 206 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
