The unique legacy of Weird Tales : the evolution of modern fantasy and horror /

When the pulp magazine Weird Tales appeared on newsstands in 1923, it proved to be a pivotal moment in the evolution of speculative fiction. Living up to its nickname, "The Unique Magazine," Weird Tales provided the first real venue for authors writing in the nascent genres of fantasy, hor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Everett, Justin (Editor ), Shanks, Jeffrey H., 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
Colección:Studies in supernatural literature.
Temas:
Weird tales.
Weird tales
1900-1999
Fantasy fiction, American > History and criticism.
Horror tales, American > History and criticism.
Periodicals > Publishing > United States > History > 20th century.
Pulp literature, American > History and criticism.
Récits d'horreur américains > Histoire et critique.
Entreprises de presse > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature de gare américaine > Histoire et critique.
Fantasy fiction, American
Horror tales, American
Periodicals > Publishing
Pulp literature, American
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. The unique magazine : Weird Tales, modernism, and genre formation. "Something that swayed as if in unison" : the artistic authenticity of Weird Tales in the interwar periodical culture of modernism / Jason Ray Carney
  • Weird modernism : literary modernism in the first decade of Weird Tales / Jonas Prida
  • The Lovecraft circle and the "weird class" : "against the complacency of an orthodox sun-dweller" / Daniel Nyikos
  • Strange collaborations : Weird Tales's discourse community as a site of collaborative writing / Nicole Emmelhainz
  • Gothic to cosmic : sword-and-sorcery fiction in Weird Tales / Morgan T. Holmes
  • pt. II. Eich-Pi-El and two-gun Bob : Lovecraft and Howard in Weird Tales. A nameless horror : madness and metamorphosis in H.P. Lovecraft and postmodernism / Clancy Smith
  • Great phallic monoliths : Lovecraft and sexuality / Bobby Derie
  • Evolutionary otherness : anthropological anxiety in Robert E. Howard's "Worms of the earth" / Jeffrey H. Shanks
  • Eugenic Thought tn the works of Robert E. Howard / Justin Everett
  • pt. III. Masters of the weird : other authors of Weird Tales. Pegasus unbridled : Clark Ashton Smith and the ghettoization of the fantastic / Scott Connors
  • "A round cipher" : word-building and world-building in the weird works of Clark Ashton Smith / Geoffrey Reiter
  • C.L. Moore, M. Brundage, and Jirel of Joiry : women and gender in the October 1934 Weird Tales / Jonathan Helland
  • Psycho-ology 101 : incipient madness in the Weird Tales of Robert B loch / Paul W. Shovlin
  • "To hell and gone" : Harold Lawlor's self-effacing pulp metafiction / Sidney Sondergard.

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