The Medial Afterlives Of H P Lovecraft

Author : Tim Lanzendörfer,Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3031137671

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The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft by Tim Lanzendörfer,Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho Pdf

Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft brings together essays on the theory and practice of adapting H.P. Lovecraft's fiction and the Lovecraftian. It draws on recent adaptation theory as well as broader discourses around media affordances to give an overview over the presence of Lovecraft in contemporary media as well as the importance of contemporary media in shaping what we take Lovecraft's legacy to be. Discussing a wide array of medial forms, from film and TV to comics, podcasts, and video and board games, and bringing together an international group of scholars, the volume analyzes individual instances of adaptation as well as the larger concern of what it is possible to learn about adaptation from the example of H.P. Lovecraft, and how we construct Lovecraft and the Lovecraftian today in adaptation. Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft is focused on an academic audience, but it will nonetheless hold interest for all readers interested in Lovecraft today. Tim Lanzendörfer is research assistant professor of American Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He has published widely in contemporary literature and media. His most recent books are the forthcoming Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel (2023) and the Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine (2021). Max José Dreysse Passos do Carvalho is a graduate student of American Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. His research and forthcoming publications concentrates on game studies and philosophy.

Author : Tim Lanzendörfer,Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031137655

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The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft by Tim Lanzendörfer,Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho Pdf

Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft brings together essays on the theory and practice of adapting H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction and the Lovecraftian. It draws on recent adaptation theory as well as broader discourses around media affordances to give an overview over the presence of Lovecraft in contemporary media as well as the importance of contemporary media in shaping what we take Lovecraft’s legacy to be. Discussing a wide array of medial forms, from film and TV to comics, podcasts, and video and board games, and bringing together an international group of scholars, the volume analyzes individual instances of adaptation as well as the larger concern of what it is possible to learn about adaptation from the example of H.P. Lovecraft, and how we construct Lovecraft and the Lovecraftian today in adaptation. Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft is focused on an academic audience, but it will nonetheless hold interest for all readers interested in Lovecraft today.

Author : Lissa Holloway-Attaway,John T. Murray
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031476556

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Interactive Storytelling by Lissa Holloway-Attaway,John T. Murray Pdf

This two-volume set LNCS 14383 and LNCS 14384 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2023, held in Kobe, Japan, during November 11–15, 2023. The 30 full papers presented in this book together with 11 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. Additionally, the proceedings includes 22 Late Breaking Works. The papers focus on topics such as: theory, history and foundations; social and cultural contexts; tools and systems; interactive narrative design; virtual worlds, performance, games and play; applications and case studies; and late breaking works.

Author : W. Scott Poole
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781593766474

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In the Mountains of Madness by W. Scott Poole Pdf

This “smart, shrewd, and insightful” biography of H.P. Lovecraft not only explores the author’s fascinating life but also reveals his “lasting power and influence” on the entertainment industry and society as a whole (Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling) Interweaving the biography of the legendary writer with an exploration of Lovecraft as a phenomenon, In the Mountains of Madness strives to explain this reclusive, cultish figure while challenging some of the general views held by Lovecraft devotees. Focusing specifically on the large cross-section of horror and science fiction fans who know Lovecraft through films, role-playing games, and video games directly influenced by his work, but who know little or nothing about the man himself, In the Mountains of Madness places Lovecraft and his work in a cultural context, as an artist more in tune with our time than his own. More than a traditional biography, this provocative book reclaims the true essence of Lovecraft in relation to the comics of Joe Lansdale, the novels of Stephen King, and some of the biggest blockbuster films in contemporary America, proving the undying influence of this rare and significant figure.

Author : S. Vanacker,C. Wynne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137291561

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Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle by S. Vanacker,C. Wynne Pdf

Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity.

Author : Annika Bautz,Sarah Wootton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000692655

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Bicentennial Essays on Jane Austen’s Afterlives by Annika Bautz,Sarah Wootton Pdf

This collection is concerned with the changing approaches to Jane Austen, her writings, and her afterlives, over the past two hundred years. It reflects on, and broadens understanding of, the cultural reach and reimaginings of Austen in view of the bicentennial celebrations of her published novels from 2011 to 2018. The ten contributors to this collection re-engage with key debates over Austen, her continuing appeal and significance as an author and a lucrative brand, and her cultural ubiquity. These essays are concerned with Austen’s national and international reputation; her critical reception; creative appropriations of her writings; and Austen’s afterlives in popular culture, in visual media, in ephemeral publications, in stage, in film, and in musical versions. Together, these essays by experts from across the UK, North America, Australia, and Scandinavia advance innovative readings of Austen’s novels and her transmedia legacies and shed new light on some of the complex reception processes that emerge from the study of this enduringly popular author. They also set out possible paths for scholarship on Austen in coming years. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.

Author : Bob Curran
Publisher : Career Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1601632193

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A Haunted Mind by Bob Curran Pdf

Arguably no American writer has had more of an impact on the modern horror scene than Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the man who created the Cthulhu Mythos, with its strange gods, eerie places, and forbidden books. But what sort of a man was Lovecraft, how did he create such a terrible universe, and where did his inspiration come from? Was it, as some have argued, based on esoteric knowledge forgotten or even denied to all sane people? In A Haunted Mind, Dr. Bob Curran explores what motivated Lovecraft--his personal life is just as strange as some of his creations--and drove him to create his terrible cosmos. Using both folklore and history, Dr Curran investigates a wide variety of Lovecraftian mysteries. A word of warning: you may never look at Lovecraft--or the world--in exactly the same way again!

Author : Nick Hubble,Aris Mousoutzanis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472538970

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The Science Fiction Handbook by Nick Hubble,Aris Mousoutzanis Pdf

As we move through the 21st century, the importance of science fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly apparent. The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the genre and how to study it for students new to the field. In particular, it provides detailed entries on major writers in the SF field who might be encountered on university-level English Literature courses, ranging from H.G. Wells and Philip K. Dick, to Doris Lessing and Geoff Ryman. Other features include an historical timeline, sections on key writers, critics and critical terms, and case studies of both literary and critical works. In the later sections of the book, the changing nature of the science fiction canon and its growing role in relation to the wider categories of English Literature are discussed in depth introducing the reader to the latest critical thinking on the field.

Author : D. Simmons
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1349461660

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New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft by D. Simmons Pdf

The last ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in H.P. Lovecraft in academic and scholarly circles. New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft seeks to offer an expansive and considered account of a fascinating yet challenging writer; both popular and critically valid but also problematic in terms of his depictions of race, gender and class.

Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0930261941

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Discovering H.P. Lovecraft by Darrell Schweitzer Pdf

Author : Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498578233

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Gothic Afterlives by Lorna Piatti-Farnell Pdf

Gothic Afterlives examines the intersections between contemporary Gothic horror and remakes scholarship from various disciplinary perspectives. The essays in the collection cover a wide range of transmedia examples, including literature, film, television, video games, and digital media reimaginings.

Author : Tim Lanzendörfer
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 139951914X

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Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel by Tim Lanzendörfer Pdf

[headline]Examines the connection between historical and speculative fiction to offer a new form of literary-genre fiction that registers the upheavals of the early twenty-first century Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel highlights the emergence of a literary mode, speculative historism, over the past two decades in US literature. Discussing novels by Ken Kalfus, Joyce Carol Oates and Colson Whitehead, among others, it provides detailed critical readings of key writers of the early twenty-first century and integrates questions of critical method, genre, form, and literary theory, all of which have some urgency today. Addressing itself to the question of how to read this mode through a form of utopian hermeneutics, this study explores the formal constitution, narrative choices, and place in the wider literary market of a mode that Lanzendörfer argues is constitutively important for understanding American literature's struggle with the possibility of imagining hopeful futures. [bio]Tim Lanzendörfer is Heisenberg Research Associate Professor for Literary Theory, Literary Studies and Literary Studies Education at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. His previous publications include Books of the Dead (2018) and The Professionalization of the American Magazine (2013), which won the Research Society for American Periodicals Book Prize in 2015. He is also editor of the Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine (2021) and co-editor of Medial Afterlives of H. P. Lovecraft (with Max Dreysse Passos do Carvalho, 2023) and of The Novel as Network (with Corinna Norrick-Rühl, 2020).

Author : Stacey Abbott,Lorna Jowett
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786836953

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Global TV Horror by Stacey Abbott,Lorna Jowett Pdf

In an era fascinated by horror, this book examines some of the most significant global TV horror, from children’s television and classic series to contemporary shows taking advantage of streaming and on-demand to reach audiences around the world.

Author : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Horror tales, American
ISBN : 9798854640299

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H.P. Lovecraft by Howard Phillips Lovecraft Pdf

Author : Carl H. Sederholm,Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452950242

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The Age of Lovecraft by Carl H. Sederholm,Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Pdf

Co-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the American author of “weird tales” who died in 1937 impoverished and relatively unknown, has become a twenty-first-century star, cropping up in places both anticipated and unexpected. Authors, filmmakers, and shapers of popular culture like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Guillermo del Toro acknowledge his influence; his fiction is key to the work of posthuman philosophers and cultural critics such as Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker; and Lovecraft’s creations have achieved unprecedented cultural ubiquity, even showing up on the animated program South Park. The Age of Lovecraft is the first sustained analysis of Lovecraft in relation to twenty-first-century critical theory and culture, delving into troubling aspects of his thought and writings. With contributions from scholars including Gothic expert David Punter, historian W. Scott Poole, musicologist Isabella van Elferen, and philosopher of the posthuman Patricia MacCormack, this wide-ranging volume brings together thinkers from an array of disciplines to consider Lovecraft’s contemporary cultural presence and its implications. Bookended by a preface from horror fiction luminary Ramsey Campbell and an extended interview with the central author of the New Weird, China Miéville, the collection addresses the question of “why Lovecraft, why now?” through a variety of approaches and angles. A must for scholars, students, and theoretically inclined readers interested in Lovecraft, popular culture, and intellectual trends, The Age of Lovecraft offers the most thorough examination of Lovecraft’s place in contemporary philosophy and critical theory to date as it seeks to shed light on the larger phenomenon of the dominance of weird fiction in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Jessica George; Brian Johnson, Carleton U; James Kneale, U College London; Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin U, Cambridge; Jed Mayer, SUNY New Paltz; China Miéville, Warwick U; W. Scott Poole, College of Charleston; David Punter, U of Bristol; David Simmons, Northampton U; Isabella van Elferen, Kingston U London.