An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H.P. LovecraftTo commemorate the centennial of the birth of H. P. Lovecraft, the editors have assembled essays by leading Lovecraft scholars that embody a wide variety of critical approaches. Biographical essays treat Lovecraft's relation to his parents and his heritage; thematic essays discuss issues such as the function of the narrator in his fiction; and the comparative and genre studies examine Lovecraft's relation to modernism. |
Contents
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Biographical | 43 |
The Parents of Howard Phillips Lovecraft | 45 |
The Cosmic Yankee | 78 |
Lovecraft and the Pulp Magazine Tradition | 101 |
Thematic Studies | 133 |
The Growth of Lovecrafts Cosmic Vision | 199 |
Landscapes Selves and Others in Lovecraft | 220 |
Comparative and Genre Studies | 245 |
Lovecrafts Artificial Mythology | 247 |
Lovecraft and the Tradition of the Gentleman Narrator | 257 |
Lovecraft and Modernism | 273 |
Lovecraft and Borges | 298 |
Contributors | 324 |
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