The love of ruins : letters on Lovecraft / Scott Cutler Shershow and Scott Michaelsen.
Shershow, Scott Cutler, 1953- author.; Michaelsen, Scott (Scott J.), author.
2017
PS3523.O833 Z858 2017eb
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Title The love of ruins : letters on Lovecraft / Scott Cutler Shershow and Scott Michaelsen.
Author Shershow, Scott Cutler, 1953- author.
ISBN 9781438465128 (electronic book)
1438465122 (electronic book)
9781438465111
1438465114
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 193 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number PS3523.O833 Z858 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.52
Summary "H. P. Lovecraft's daily life revolved around correspondence. He is estimated to have written 100,000 letters in his relatively short lifetime, and 20,000 of these letters survive. ... The following is a sequence of thirty-four letters about the work of H.P. Lovecraft, each one written from Scott to Scott, who have been writing letters to each other for more than thirty years. ... It should be noted that the texts that follow both are and are not "real" letters. On the one hand, all of them originated as actual missives composed by one of us and sent to the other over the course of almost exactly one year; and some of them retain traces of the specific occasions in which they were thus written and sent. On the other hand, all of these letters have also been revised, rethought, reordered, by both of us, working at times on the other's work, to the point that these texts are necessarily unmoored from their literal points of origin. Many of the letters have footnotes -- some written by that letter's author and some by the other Scott. Thus this book is explicitly about questions of dialogue and voice: how many voices are there in a dialogue between some Scotts? The answer, no doubt, is that there are always less than and more than two. ... This first in this series of letters was written on 1 August 2014, the 180th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, and the 178th anniversary of Charles Darwin's arrival in Bahia, Brazil, fresh from his voyage on the HMS Beagle. The final letter was written on July 15, 2015, the same date as the dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in 484 BCE. Lovecraft had a special fondness for the story of these cultic twins, whose temple remains today in ruins."--Preface.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Michaelsen, Scott (Scott J.), author.
Series SUNY series, literature ... in theory.
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Letter one: prayers
Letter two: Warnings
Letter three: Psychonautics, sublimity, love
Letter four: Love and ruins
Letter five: Ruins and race
Letter six: Ruins, sublimity, laughter
Letter seven: Race and writing
Letter eight: Writing and the love of ruins
Letter nine: Race, the fourth dimension, apophasis
Letter ten: Race, the love of wounds
Letter eleven: Wounds, race, music and noise
Letter twelve: Race, orientalism, writing
Letter thirteen: Time travel, white mythology, the library
Letter fourteen: Cities in ruins
Letter fifteen: The late city, the decline of the west
Letter sixteen: Basalt towers, trap doors, taboos, nameless beings
Letter seventeen: Apophasis, science fiction, visibility and racism, impossible politics
Letter eighteen: Archive, irruption, eruption, basalt
Letter nineteen: The great race, the archive
Letter twenty: Comedy and laughter
Letter twenty-one: Class, socialism, politics
Letter twenty-two: Doubling, indirect racism, the gift of vision, non-knowledge
Letter twenty-three: The fourth dimension, community
Letter twenty-four: The fourth dimension, community, unworking
Letter twenty-five: Community, sacrifice, cults
Letter twenty-six: Racial degeneration, police, sacrifice
Letter twenty-seven: Sacrifice, madness, one blood, the invention of the white race, frogs
Letter twenty-eight: Untimeliness, sacrifice, religion
Letter twenty-nine: Religion after religion, dread
Letter thirty: Religion, the wholesome, faith and knowledge
Letter thirty-one: Kindness, wonder, horror
Letter thirty-two: Hauntology, religion, science, "race" and racism
Letter thirty-three: Modern apophasis
Letter thirty-four: The weird, the future, the open.

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