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- Title
Lovecraftian ontology: Monstrosity, cosmic horror and the Gothic.
- Authors
Walden, Corey R.
- Abstract
This article explores the writing of H. P. Lovecraft through portrayals of the monstrous and cosmic horror. Both integral facets of his mythos are connected to his world-view, and then located in terms of wider popular culture and contemporary Gothic scholarship. Lovecraft's conceptualizations of monstrosity and cosmic horror are seen to be employed in such a way that subverts more conventional forms of storytelling: where many popular culture texts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries adhere to a mode of storytelling that contains heroism for the protagonist, this is not the case in Lovecraft's work. Typically phenomena - in the form of cosmic horror and monstrosity - are the focus of the story; yet these manifestations act to form a nexus of expression and critique by utilizing ontological metaphors steeped in meaning.
- Subjects
POSTMODERNISM (Literature); GOTHIC language literature; LOVECRAFT, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937; MONOMYTH; SCHOLARSHIPS
- Publication
Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 2017, Vol 6, Issue 2, p245
- ISSN
2045-5852
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/ajpc.6.2.245_1