‘Age of Lovecraft’?—Anthropocene Monsters in (New) Weird Narrative
This paper considers whether the twenty-first-century resurgence of H. P. Lovecraft and weird fiction can be read as a conceptual parallel to the Anthropocene epoch, taking Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s The Age of Lovecraft as a starting-point. The assumption is that the two ‘age...
Main Author: | Gry Ulstein |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2019-11-01
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Series: | Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur |
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Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/5004 |
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