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Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation

Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation

Cisco, Michael
Moreland, Sean
Burger, Alissa

Hardcover

Series: Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1611462401
ISBN13: 9781611462401
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: May 24 2017
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century's most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his model and his God of Fiction. While scholars and readers of Poe's and Lovecraft's work have long recognized the connection between these authors, this collection of essays is the first in-depth study to explore the complex literary relationship between Lovecraft and Poe from a variety of critical perspectives. Of the thirteen essays included in this book, some consider how Poe's work influenced Lovecraft in important ways. Other essays explore how Lovecraft's fictional, critical, and poetic reception of Poe irrevocably changed how Poe's work has been understood by subsequent generations of readers and interpreters. Addressing a variety of topics ranging from the psychology of influence to racial and sexual politics, the essays in this book also consider how Lovecraft's interpretations of Poe have informed later adaptations of both writers' works in films by Roger Corman and fiction by Stephen King, Thomas Ligotti, and Caitlin R. Kiernan. This collection is an indispensable resource not only for those who are interested in Poe's and Lovecraft's work specifically, but also for readers who wish to learn more about the modern history and evolution of Gothic, horror, and weird fiction.

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