S. T. Joshi
H.P. Lovecraft
The Decline of the West
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The author writes:This book began as an expansion of my essay, H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West, in The Weird Tale, but very quickly became something quite different, to the degree that the two works have little save the title in common. I have always been interested in Lovecraft the philosopher, and in my Starmont Reader's Guide to Lovecraft (1982) I attempted a very compressed account of his philosophical views. To treat so complex a thinker as Lovecraft in a few pages was obviously untenable, even though I think those few pages at least convey the unity of his thought-perhaps better than this fuller study does. One reviewer, howeve…
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The author writes:This book began as an expansion of my essay, H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West, in The Weird Tale, but very quickly became something quite different, to the degree that the two works have little save the title in common. I have always been interested in Lovecraft the philosopher, and in my Starmont Reader's Guide to Lovecraft (1982) I attempted a very compressed account of his philosophical views. To treat so complex a thinker as Lovecraft in a few pages was obviously untenable, even though I think those few pages at least convey the unity of his thought-perhaps better than this fuller study does. One reviewer, however, was correct in noting that I did not sufficiently integrate Lovecraft's thought and his fiction, and I have now attempted to remedy the failing.I am still not convinced that I have really written one rather than two books here. Does Lovecraft's fiction really depend upon his philosophy? I wrestle with this question further in my introduction, but here I can note that I had great difficulty deciding upon the proper structure for this book. I deal with four principal facets of Lovecraft's philosophy-metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and politics-in Part I, and those same facets as applied to the fiction in Part II. It might have made more sense to juxtapose the corresponding chapters of each part, but I finally determined that this would be both methodologically and practically unsound; methodologically for reasons explained in the introduction, and practically because it would fail to demonstrate the interconnectedness of Lovecraft's thought and because in Part II I frequently rely upon conceptions expressed throughout the whole of Part I.
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- ISBN: 978-1-58715-068-5
- EAN: 9781587150685
- Produktnummer: 9248931
- Verlag: Wildside Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
- Seitenangabe: 172 S.
- Masse: H28.0 cm x B21.0 cm x D0.9 cm 438 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 438
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