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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 / Jason Ray Carney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carney, Jason Ray, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction.
- Weird tales.
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936--Criticism and interpretation.
- Howard, Robert E.
- Smith, Clark Ashton, 1893-1961--Criticism and interpretation.
- Smith, Clark Ashton.
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lovecraft, H. P.
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936.
- Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937.
- Smith, Clark Ashton, 1893-1961.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-3614-1
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