The Republic of Cthulhu : (Record no. 66771)
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wilson, Eric, |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Republic of Cthulhu : |
| Remainder of title | Lovecraft, the Weird Tale, and Conspiracy Theory |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Brooklyn, NY |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | punctum books |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (186 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | If parapolitics, a branch of radical criminology that studies the interactions between public entities and clandestine agencies, is to develop as an academic discipline, then it must develop a coherent theory of aesthetics in order to successfully perform its primary function: to render perceptible extra-judicial phenomena that have hitherto resisted formal classification. Wilson offers the work of H.P. Lovecraft (1890:1937) as an example of the relevance of subversive literature—in this case, cosmic horror and the weird tale—to the parapolitical criminologist. Cosmic horror is a form of writing that relies heavily upon the epistemological assumption of a radical and irreconcilable disjunction between appearance and reality, perception and truth. In many ways, the well-constructed weird tale strongly resembles the hard-boiled detective story or the noir thriller in that the resolution of the narrative hinges upon a dramatically shattering confrontation with an unspeakable reality. Apart from its obvious utilization of conspiracy theory, the primary attraction of the Lovecraftian text lies with its remarkably sophisticated utilization of two central tropes of classical aesthetic theory—the sublime and the grotesque. Not only does Lovecraft’s oeuvre represent a remarkable use of both of these motifs, but the raw literary power of the Lovecraftian weird tale serves as an outstanding exemplar for the parapolitical scholar to emulate in formulating an alternative mode of discourse, or poetics. |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Conspiracy Theory |
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| Uncontrolled term | H.P. Lovecraft |
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| Uncontrolled term | Horror |
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| Uncontrolled term | Parapolitics |
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| Uncontrolled term | Radical Criminology |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25471/1/1004624.pdfhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25471">https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25471/1/1004624.pdfhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25471</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | E-Book |
| Withdrawn status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Directory of Open Access Books | Directory of Open Access Books | 11/28/2022 | 11/28/2022 | 11/28/2022 | E-Book |