The Paranoid Vision: Frye, Lovecraft and Theosophy
Earlier this morning I did something life-altering: I finished the last paper for my university degree.
The essay is entitled: "The Paranoid Vision: Frye, Lovecraft and Theosophy."
You can read it here.
The essay is entitled: "The Paranoid Vision: Frye, Lovecraft and Theosophy."
You can read it here.
posted by Davyth | 12:38 PM
3 Comments:
I'll have to give it a go, though I've never read Lovecraft. I am, however, reading the Great Code for the 3rd time in 2 months, and it's making more sense now. It's a very dense book, far more so than Anatomy (which is perhaps his most accessible).
I thought my interests were arcane; looks like you beat me there :)
Lovecraft is a writer a person can either love or hate. He was fond of the Seventeenth century especially, a style his writing imitates--something archaic, which is usually what irks people about him.
Even the idea of a world (even imaginary) ruled by the laws of evolution gone amok is a nightmare for the human imagination--it's unfathomable and dreadful from a human perspective. Just imagine how frightful--or absurd--it was then when this sort of science was still novel.
I've read a lot of older and unfashionable writers like Lovecraft, medieval and Renaissance poets and all that fun stuff. But I have a few favourite modern authours, too, for example: Chuck Palahniuk, Robert Charles Wilson, or China Mieville, to name a few (though judging by my come-to-mind list Post-colonials won't like me very much!--they never did, not in my Shakespeare class!).
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