Aquatic fears: a poetics of liquid horror in h. P. Lovecraft
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Aquatic images, Lovecraft, BachelardAbstract
Water appears in the work of H. P. Lovecraft not in its life-generating character, but in its inverse, that is, as still water or dead water that the theorist of literature Gaston Bachelard identifies in the work of another icon of the supernatural literature Edgar Allan Poe. This paper identifies the influence of aquatic materiality on the composition of the tales Dagon, What the Moon Brings, The Colour out of Space, The Shadow over Innsmouth and The Call of Cthulhu. The guiding method of the reflections presented here is called thematic according to Bergez (2006). The study of water-related images helps to expand the understanding of Lovecraft's work, commonly interpreted as cosmic terror.
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