Lord Dunsany, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury

Lord Dunsany, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury
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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 167
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Book Synopsis Lord Dunsany, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury by : William F. Touponce

Download or read book Lord Dunsany, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury written by William F. Touponce and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his classic study Supernatural Horror in Literature, H. P. Lovecraft discusses the emergence of what he called spectral literature—literature that involves the gothic themes of the supernatural found in the past but also considers modern society and humanity. Beyond indicating how authors of such works derived pleasure from a sense of cosmic atmosphere, Lovecraft did not elaborate on what he meant by the term spectral as a form of haunted literature concerned with modernity. In Lord Dunsany, H. P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury: Spectral Journeys, William F. Touponce examines what these three masters of weird fiction reveal about modernity and the condition of being modern in their tales. In this study, Touponce confirms that these three authors viewed storytelling as a kind of journey into the spectral. Furthermore, he explains how each identifies modernity with capitalism in various ways and shows a concern with surpassing the limits of realism, which they see as tied to the representation of bourgeois society. The collected writings of Lord Dunsany, H. P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury span the length of the tumultuous twentieth century with hundreds of stories. By comparing these authors, Touponce also traces the development of supernatural fiction since the early 1900s. Reading about how these works were tied to various stages of capitalism, one can see the connection between supernatural literature and society. This study will appeal to fans of the three authors discussed here, as well as to scholars and others interested in the connection between literature and society, criticism of supernatural fiction, the nature of storytelling, and the meaning and experience of modernity.


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