H.p. Lovecraft: The Decline Of The West, De S. T. Joshi. Editorial Wildside Press, Tapa Blanda En Inglés, 0000

Descripción

- Titulo: H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West

- Autor: S. T. Joshi
- Idioma: Ingles
- Formato: Papel -Tapa Blanda
- Editorial: Wildside Press
- ISBN-13: 9781587150685
- Páginas: 172
- Dimensiones: 27.99cm. x 21.01cm. x 0.94cm.
- Peso: 0.45 kg.

-Descripción:

The author writes:This book began as an expansion of my essay, "H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West," in The Weird Tale, but very quickly became something quite different, to the degree that the two works have little save the title in common. I have always been interested in Lovecraft the philosopher, and in my Starmont Readers Guide to Lovecraft (1982) I attempted a very compressed account of his philosophical views. To treat so complex a thinker as Lovecraft in a few pages was obviously untenable, even though I think those few pages at least convey the unity of his thought perhaps better than this fuller study does. One reviewer, however, was correct in noting that I did not sufficiently integrate Lovecrafts thought and his fiction, and I have now attempted to remedy the failing.I am still not convinced that I have really written one rather than two books here. Does Lovecrafts fiction really depend upon his philosophy? I wrestle with this question further in my introduction, but here I can note that I had great difficulty deciding upon the proper structure for this book. I deal with four principal facets of Lovecrafts philosophy metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and politics in Part I, and those same facets as applied to the fiction in Part II. It might have made more sense to juxtapose the corresponding chapters of each part, but I finally determined that this would be both methodologically and practically unsound; methodologically for reasons explained in the introduction, and practically because it would fail to demonstrate the interconnectedness of Lovecrafts thought and because in Part II I frequently rely upon conceptions expressed throughout the whole of Part I.