Shershow / Michaelsen The Love of Ruins

Letters on Lovecraft
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6512-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Literature... in Theory

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shershow, Scott Cutler

Michaelsen, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Prayers

2. Warnings

3. Psychonautics, Sublimity, Love

4. Love and Ruins

5. Ruins and Race

6. Ruins, Sublimity, Laughter

7. Race and Writing

8. Writing and the Love of Ruins

9. Race, the Fourth Dimension, Apophasis

10. Race, the Love of Wounds

11. Wounds, Race, Music, and Noise

12. Race, Orientalism, Writing

13. Time Travel, White Mythology, the Library

14. Cities in Ruins

15. The Late City, the Decline of the West

16. Basalt Towers, Trapdoors, Taboos, Nameless Beings

17. Apophasis, Science Fiction, Visibility and Racism, Im-Possible Politics

18. Archive, Irruption, Eruption, Basalt

19. The Great Race, the Archive

20. Comedy and Laughter

21. Class, Socialism, Politics

22. Doubling, Indirect Racism, the Gift of Vision, Nonknowledge

23. The Fourth Dimension, Community

24. The Fourth Dimension, Community, Unworking

25. Community, Sacrifice, Cults

26. Racial Degeneration, Police, Sacrifice

27. Sacrifice, Madness, One Blood, the Invention of the White Race, Frogs

28. Untimeliness, Sacrifice, Religion

29. Religion after Religion, Dread

30. Religion, the Wholesome, Faith and Knowledge

31. Kindness, Wonder, Horror

32. Hauntology, Religion, Science, Race, and Racism

33. Modern Apophasis

34. The Weird, the Future, the Open

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Cutler Shershow is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and author of Deconstructing Dignity: A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate Scott Michaelsen is Professor of English at Michigan State University and coauthor (with David E. Johnson) of Anthropology's Wake: Attending to the End of Culture.