H.P. Lovecraft, em seus ensaios e cartas, nos oferece uma reflexão riquíssima sobre a narrativa de horror e como esta deve se expressar na literatura. O autor cunhou o termo Horror Cósmico para denominar sua teoria estética. Porém, mais do que ser uma teorização sobre o horror na literatura, o Horror Cósmico é uma teorização sobre como deve ser a narrativa que Lovecraft julga ser a ideal para as histórias que deseja contar. Nessa perspectiva, a análise de sua ficção, acompanhado dos conhecimentos adquiridos pela análise pormenorizada de seus ensaios e cartas sobre o tema, permitem ao leitor compreender melhor sua obra, chegando assim a uma interpretação aproximadamente correta de sua ficção. O objetivo deste trabalho, portanto, é compreender como suas teorizações se refletem em seus textos ficcionais. Os contos e respectivas transposições fílmicas selecionadas foram analisados sobre o prisma destas teorizações. Para alcançarmos esse objetivo primeiro analisamos os seus contos comparativamente com os textos não ficcionais, a fim de compreendermos a forma como o autor expressa o conceito de Horror Cósmico em sua prosa ficcional. Após a compreensão dos elementos teóricos de Lovecraft em sua ficção, analisamos as transposições fílmicas selecionadas sob esse mesmo prisma. Pesquisas bibliográficas foram realizadas com o objetivo de construir um referencial teórico para a abordagem proposta. / H.P. Lovecraft, in his essays and letters, offers the reader powerful insights into the subject of horror and how it should be expressed in literature. The author coined the term Cosmic Fear to name his aesthetic theory. However, in addition to being a theory about horror in literature, Cosmic Fear is a theory about how the ideal horror story (as Lovecraft wishes to write it) should be. From this perspective, the analysis of Lovecraft´s fiction, accompanied by the knowledge acquired through a detailed analysis of his essays and letters on the subject, allows the reader to better understand his work, thus reaching an approximately correct interpretation of his fiction. The goal of our research, therefore, is to understand how Lovecraft´s aesthetic theory works in his fiction. The short stories, novels and the filmic transpositions we selected for this research were analyzed under the prism of these theories. To achieve this goal we analyzed his fiction by comparing it first to his non-fiction in order to understand the concept of Cosmic Fear in his fiction. After understanding Cosmic Fear in Lovecraft´s fiction, we analyzed the selected filmic transpositions under the same prism. Bibliographic references were used with the purpose of building a theoretical framework for the proposed approach.

H.P. Lovecraft, em seus ensaios e cartas, nos oferece uma reflexão riquíssima sobre a narrativa de horror e como esta deve se expressar na literatura. O autor cunhou o termo Horror Cósmico para denominar sua teoria estética. Porém, mais do que ser uma teorização sobre o horror na literatura, o Horror Cósmico é uma teorização sobre como deve ser a narrativa que Lovecraft julga ser a ideal para as histórias que deseja contar. Nessa perspectiva, a análise de sua ficção, acompanhado dos conhecimentos adquiridos pela análise pormenorizada de seus ensaios e cartas sobre o tema, permitem ao leitor compreender melhor sua obra, chegando assim a uma interpretação aproximadamente correta de sua ficção. O objetivo deste trabalho, portanto, é compreender como suas teorizações se refletem em seus textos ficcionais. Os contos e respectivas transposições fílmicas selecionadas foram analisados sobre o prisma destas teorizações. Para alcançarmos esse objetivo primeiro analisamos os seus contos comparativamente com os textos não ficcionais, a fim de compreendermos a forma como o autor expressa o conceito de Horror Cósmico em sua prosa ficcional. Após a compreensão dos elementos teóricos de Lovecraft em sua ficção, analisamos as transposições fílmicas selecionadas sob esse mesmo prisma. Pesquisas bibliográficas foram realizadas com o objetivo de construir um referencial teórico para a abordagem proposta. / H.P. Lovecraft, in his essays and letters, offers the reader powerful insights into the subject of horror and how it should be expressed in literature. The author coined the term Cosmic Fear to name his aesthetic theory. However, in addition to being a theory about horror in literature, Cosmic Fear is a theory about how the ideal horror story (as Lovecraft wishes to write it) should be. From this perspective, the analysis of Lovecraft´s fiction, accompanied by the knowledge acquired through a detailed analysis of his essays and letters on the subject, allows the reader to better understand his work, thus reaching an approximately correct interpretation of his fiction. The goal of our research, therefore, is to understand how Lovecraft´s aesthetic theory works in his fiction. The short stories, novels and the filmic transpositions we selected for this research were analyzed under the prism of these theories. To achieve this goal we analyzed his fiction by comparing it first to his non-fiction in order to understand the concept of Cosmic Fear in his fiction. After understanding Cosmic Fear in Lovecraft´s fiction, we analyzed the selected filmic transpositions under the same prism. Bibliographic references were used with the purpose of building a theoretical framework for the proposed approach.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Filosofia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, 2013. / Submitted by Larissa Stefane Vieira Rodrigues (larissarodrigues@bce.unb.br) on 2014-10-29T19:24:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_AndréRobertoTonussiArnaut.pdf: 518506 bytes, checksum: 1dda126d65ee09183793ea2f7c7edac0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Tania Milca Carvalho Malheiros(tania@bce.unb.br) on 2014-10-30T14:08:27Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_AndréRobertoTonussiArnaut.pdf: 518506 bytes, checksum: 1dda126d65ee09183793ea2f7c7edac0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-30T14:08:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_AndréRobertoTonussiArnaut.pdf: 518506 bytes, checksum: 1dda126d65ee09183793ea2f7c7edac0 (MD5) / Esse trabalho trata de algumas maneiras pelas quais podemos afirmar a primazia do horror sobre a atitude filosófica, entendida como a atitude guiada pelo princípio aporético socrático “só sei que nada sei”. O foco é o horror em Lévinas e em Lovecraft, que é repensado à luz da leitura de Cyclonopedia – complicity with anonymous materials de Reza Negarestani. A discussão toma a forma de uma tentativa de desarticulação da máquina antropológica de Agamben, transita por J. M. Coetzee, Bruno Latour e Quentin Meillassoux e desemboca na ideia de que o amor levinasiano não é um amor a Outrem, mas ao horror, e na ideia de que a filosofia é uma saturação do sistema da affordance que provoca a abertura radical para o horror daquilo que está fora desse sistema. ______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This work is about some ways of affirming the primacy of horror over the philosophical attitude, understood as the one guided by the Socratic “the only thing I know is that I don’t know anything”. The focus is the horror in Lévinas and in Lovecraft, which is analised in the light of a reading of Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia – complicity with anonymous materials. The discussion is developed as a struggle to disarticulate Agamben’s anthropological machine, passes through J. M. Coetzee, Bruno Latour and Quentin Meillassoux and arrives at the idea that levinasian love is not a love for the other, but for horror, as well as at the idea that philosophy is a saturation of the system of affordance which engenders a radical openness to the horrifying Outside.

The present study conducted to investigate the different strategies applied by two Japanese translators translating H.P. Lovecraft's neologisms. The neologisms for the study were collected from Clore's (2009) lexicon and analysed based on Newmark's (1988) twelve types of neologisms. Each neologism was then compared to its Japanese equivalent found in the Japanese translations of Lovecraft's collective work. The neologisms were analysed and categorised based on Newmark's (1988) eleven proposed strategies. Seven of Newmark’s (1988) eleven strategies were found and "Naturalisation" was the most frequently applied strategy.

H.P. Lovecraft, em seus ensaios e cartas, nos oferece uma reflexão riquíssima sobre a narrativa de horror e como esta deve se expressar na literatura. O autor cunhou o termo Horror Cósmico para denominar sua teoria estética. Porém, mais do que ser uma teorização sobre o horror na literatura, o Horror Cósmico é uma teorização sobre como deve ser a narrativa que Lovecraft julga ser a ideal para as histórias que deseja contar. Nessa perspectiva, a análise de sua ficção, acompanhado dos conhecimentos adquiridos pela análise pormenorizada de seus ensaios e cartas sobre o tema, permitem ao leitor compreender melhor sua obra, chegando assim a uma interpretação aproximadamente correta de sua ficção. O objetivo deste trabalho, portanto, é compreender como suas teorizações se refletem em seus textos ficcionais. Os contos e respectivas transposições fílmicas selecionadas foram analisados sobre o prisma destas teorizações. Para alcançarmos esse objetivo primeiro analisamos os seus contos comparativamente com os textos não ficcionais, a fim de compreendermos a forma como o autor expressa o conceito de Horror Cósmico em sua prosa ficcional. Após a compreensão dos elementos teóricos de Lovecraft em sua ficção, analisamos as transposições fílmicas selecionadas sob esse mesmo prisma. Pesquisas bibliográficas foram realizadas com o objetivo de construir um referencial teórico para a abordagem proposta. / H.P. Lovecraft, in his essays and letters, offers the reader powerful insights into the subject of horror and how it should be expressed in literature. The author coined the term Cosmic Fear to name his aesthetic theory. However, in addition to being a theory about horror in literature, Cosmic Fear is a theory about how the ideal horror story (as Lovecraft wishes to write it) should be. From this perspective, the analysis of Lovecraft´s fiction, accompanied by the knowledge acquired through a detailed analysis of his essays and letters on the subject, allows the reader to better understand his work, thus reaching an approximately correct interpretation of his fiction. The goal of our research, therefore, is to understand how Lovecraft´s aesthetic theory works in his fiction. The short stories, novels and the filmic transpositions we selected for this research were analyzed under the prism of these theories. To achieve this goal we analyzed his fiction by comparing it first to his non-fiction in order to understand the concept of Cosmic Fear in his fiction. After understanding Cosmic Fear in Lovecraft´s fiction, we analyzed the selected filmic transpositions under the same prism. Bibliographic references were used with the purpose of building a theoretical framework for the proposed approach.

The aim of the present essay has been to study how narration and focalisation generate the reader’s state of uncertainty in ”The Shadow over Innsmouth” by H. P. Lovecraft. It has been accomplished with the aid of Yvonne Leffler’s narratological analysis on horror fiction and, to some extent, Mieke Bal’s narratological theories. A pedagogical reflection has been provided before the analysis as to demonstrate how to teach narration and focalisation with the help of horror fiction. The analysis has four sections. The first section demonstrates how the narrative strategies used by Lovecraft in the narrative progression affects the reader’s state of uncertainty by making it difficult for the reader to solve the horror mystery. The second section shows how the narrator’s insecurities in his abilities and use of language affect the reader’s state of uncertainty as well as his or her interpretation of events. The third section illustrates how the narrator’s subjective and coloured perception generates the reader’s state of ambiguity by challenging the reader’s interpretation of events in relation to what is true or false. The final section demonstrates the problems of vision – “seeing too little”, “seeing too much” and “being seen” – complicate the reader’s interpretation of events.

The research examines the relationship between the Sublime, the written works of H. P. Lovecraft, and the researcher’s production in the studio arts. It analyses how the Sublime is approached as a subject matter and principal objective within philosophical and artistic discourses, historically and within a contemporary paradigm. It also investigates the applicability of the Sublime to selected themes uncovered in H. P. Lovecraft’s work in general, and At the Mountains of Madness in particular. This is undertaken through an investigation of primary and secondary sources whose explorations and contextualization informs and supports the researcher’s practical visual studies. A reflective and critical analysis of this studio work is performed and included in the main body of the dissertation, from which a conclusion is drawn about the effectiveness of this approach. Specifically, the research explores the relevance of the Sublime both as a critical component of contemporary fine arts and as a fundamental element of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness in particular. In addition, the research’s practical component consists of a visual exploration of the intersection between the two. Furthermore, it represents an evaluation of this overlap in its effective translation across modes of expression, as interpreted through the medium of the researcher’s creative process.

In this paper I will present the concept of cosmic horror through the author H. P.Lovecraft and the philosophical perspective of cosmicism. Thereafter I examine some theoretical approaches of a dark pedagogy, and showcase a dark pedagogical curriculum. I shall then analyse the short story The Colour Out of Space, and the mini-series Chernobyl in order to explore themes of cosmic horror and relate them to a dark pedagogical practice, as well as relate the dark pedagogical curriculum to the regulatory documents of the Swedish high school, with a particular focus on the course of religious studies. In my findings I will show how the examined stories can be seen to fit within the dark pedagogical aspects of qualification, socialization and subjectification, as well as present the overlap that I have found between the dark pedagogical curriculum and the regulatory documents of the Swedish high school.

Comme le montre l’analyse de dix auteurs appartenant à trois domaines linguistiques différents, anglophones, hispanophones et francophones : Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, Jorge Luis Borges, Ruben Dario, Henry James, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Léopoldo Lugones, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Ray, Marcel Schwob, la géométrie est présente partout dans les récits fantastiques du xixe au xxe siècle. Cercles, carrés ou pyramides s’inscrivent dans l’architecture ou dans le physique du personnage. Ces formes, qui permettent de faire naître l’angoisse, imposent peu à peu la circularité (cercles, courbes, sphères) comme une figure dominante. Les espaces où évolue le protagoniste s’arrondissent autour de lui jusqu’à venir l’étouffer. Le mécanisme de la peur qu’engendre ce processus peut alors être centrifuge ou centripète : soit il découle du lieu où se trouve le héros fantastique soit il est produit par le personnage lui-même. De cette géométrie angoissante découle un procédé fondamental : celui de l’atmosphère fantastique. Celle-ci — faite, comme l’étymologie le révèle, d’une forme de vapeur (atmos) enveloppant le monde ou le sujet à la manière d’un globe (sphaira) — témoigne de l’importance non seulement des courbes, mais encore des divers états de l’eau : glace, neige, élément liquide ou gazeux. L’atmosphère montre ainsi à quel point le fantastique est lié à la femme, support essentiel de l’Unheimliche, en ce que cette dernière est à la fois — pour le personnage masculin et pour les auteurs ici analysés — une figure de l’Autre (unheimlich) et une manifestation de la Mère (heimlich) / As shown in the analysis of ten authors from three different linguistic areas, English, Spanish and French: Alarcon, Borges, Dario, James, Lovecraft, Lugones, Maupassant, Poe, Ray and Schwob. The geometry is everywhere in the fantastic stories from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. Circles, squares or pyramids are part of architecture or the character's physical. These forms, which allows the birth of anxiety, gradually impose the circularity (circles, curves, spheres) as a dominant figure. The spaces where the protagonist is evolving, curving around him till he suffocates. The mechanism of the fear generated by this process could be centrifugal or centripetal: it follows either the place where the fantasy hero is located or it is produced by the character himself. From this agonizing geometry, a fundamental process is set up : the fantastic atmosphere. This one done, as the etymology reveals, from a vapor shape (atmos) enveloping the world or the character in the manner of a globe(sphaira) - testify the importance not only about the curves, but equally the various states of water : ice, snow, liquid or gaseous element. The atmosphere shows how much the fantastic is linked to the woman, Unheimliche's essential support, in that this last one is both - for the male character and the authors analyzed here - a figure of the Other (unheimlich) and a manifestation of the Mother (Heimlich)

Denna uppsats undersöker gotiska teman som melankoli, isolering, galenskap och död i verk av Edgar Allan Poe och Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Utgångspunkt är följande forskningsfråga: På vilket sätt framträder melankoli, isolering, galenskap och död i de olika verken, samt vilka är likheterna och skillnaderna mellan hur temana framkommer? Metoden är grundad i tematisk analys, intertextualitet och komparation. De verk som analyseras i uppsatsen är Poes The Fall of The House Usher, Ligeia och Berenice. Verk av Lovecraft som analyserats är Cthulhu, The Color out of Space, The Tomb och Polaris. Resultaten visar att alla teman finns närvarande i verk av båda författarna, men att de tar olika former. Poes melankoli är till exempel mycket närmare hans karaktärer än Lovecrafts melankoli, som är mer kopplade till miljöer och objekt. Vidare visar undersökningen bland annat också att Poe inte fokuserar på fysiska dödsbeskrivningar utan på andra typer av död. Lovecrafts dödsbeskrivningar å andra sidan är mer externa och kopplade till monster. / This essay examines the presence of what is considered to be gothic themes such as melancholy, isolation, madness and death in works of Edgar Allan Poe and Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The following research question was formulated: In what way do melancholy, isolation, madness, and death appear in the various works, and what are the similarities and differences between how the themes emerge? Methods of thematic analysis, intertextuality and comparison are used. The works analysed in the essay are Poe’s The Fall of The House Usher, Ligeia and Berenice. The works analysed are also Lovecraft’s The call of Cthulhu, The Colour out of Space, The Tomb and Polaris. The results show that all the themes are present in works by both authors, but that they take different forms. Poe’s melancholy is for example much closer to his characters than Lovecrafts melancholy, which are more connected to environments and objects. The study also shows among other things, that Poe does not focus on physical death descriptions but on other types of death. Lovecraft's death descriptions on the other hand, are more external and linked to monsters.