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Weird tales of modernity : the ephemerality of the ordinary in the stories of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and H.P. Lovecraft
- Title
- Weird tales of modernity : the ephemerality of the ordinary in the stories of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and H.P. Lovecraft / Jason Ray Carney.
- Author
- Carney, Jason Ray
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- vii, 197 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Serious literary artists such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf loom large in most accounts of the literary art of the first half of the 20th century. And yet, working in the shadows cast by these modernists were science fiction, horror and fantasy writers like "the Weird Tales Three": H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. These three writers did not publish in artistically ambitious magazines like The Dial, The Smart Set and The Little Review but instead in commercial pulp magazines like Weird Tales. Contrary to stereotypes about pulp fiction and those who wrote it, the Weird Tales Three were serious literary artists who used their fiction to speculate about philosophical questions, the function of art and the brevity of life.
- Subjects
- American fiction
- Lovecraft, H. P (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937
- Howard, Robert E (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936
- Lovecraft, H. P (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 > Criticism and interpretation
- Civilization, Modern, in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Weird tales
- Change in literature
- Smith, Clark Ashton, 1893-1961 > Criticism and interpretation
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Howard, Robert E (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936 > Criticism and interpretation
- 1900-1999
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1363
- ISBN
- 1476668035
- 9781476668031
- OCLC
- 1081436935
- Author
- Carney, Jason Ray, author.
- Title
- Weird tales of modernity : the ephemerality of the ordinary in the stories of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and H.P. Lovecraft / Jason Ray Carney.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1363