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    The weird, the posthuman, and the abjected world-in-itself : fidelity to the ‘Lovecraft event’ in the work of Caitlín R. Kiernan and Laird Barron

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    Authors
    Jarvis, Timothy
    Issue Date
    2017-07-31
    Subjects
    H.P. Lovecraft
    Caitlín R. Kiernan
    Laird Barron
    weird fiction
    tropes
    fiction
    creative writing
    Q322 English Literature by author
    
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    Caitlín R. Kiernan and Laird Barron are acclaimed and influential writers of the early twenty-first century resurgence of weird fiction. But a common critical response to their writing is that they have achieved their powerful effects only by transcending the influence of the work of H. P. Lovecraft. This article argues that, while it is important to move past Lovecraft’s often regressive stance, to inherit topoi from him is not necessarily to take on the more negative aspects of his personal ideology. Although his ideology was reactionary, aspects of his poetics were radical and progressive. In fact, he himself derived many of his tropes from earlier writers whose worldviews differed radically from his – the topoi were not formed by his ideology. Kiernan and Barron have used these topoi to address contemporary concerns in a progressive manner maintaining fidelity to what Benjamin Noys has called the ‘Lovecraft event’, while breaking with his reactionary attitudes.
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    Jarvis T (2017) 'The weird, the posthuman, and the abjected world-in-itself : fidelity to the ‘Lovecraft event’ in the work of Caitlín R. Kiernan and Laird Barron', Textual Practice, 31 (6), pp.1133-1148.
    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
    Journal
    Textual Practice
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/622743
    DOI
    10.1080/0950236X.2017.1358693
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    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/10.1080/0950236X.2017.1358693?scroll=top≠edAccess=true
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    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0950-236X
    EISSN
    1470-1308
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1080/0950236X.2017.1358693
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