Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8016683" data-attributes="member: 7023840">As a long-time fan of the cosmic horror of Lovecraft and the sword and sorcery of Howard, I think it's important to be able to acknowledge that they remain problematic. I do not believe it is possible to enjoy them without understanding the context or to simply turn a blind eye. I quoted the following in a separate thread, and it is worth repeating here:Far from outlandish eccentricities, the fears that generated Lovecraft’s stories and opinions were precisely those of the white, middle-class, heterosexual, Protestant-descended males who were most threatened by the shifting power relationships and values of the modern world. Alan Moore, in The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft. (Norton, 2014).There is value in understanding these things; both why they can be problematic because they reflect the times (for example, passages from Howard exemplifying attitudes regarding other races and colonialism), and to a deeper extent, understanding how, for example, the intense racism and fear of the other of H. P. Lovecraft in inextricably linked to the birthing of cosmic horror.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 8016683, member: 7023840"] As a long-time fan of the cosmic horror of Lovecraft and the sword and sorcery of Howard, I think it's important to be able to acknowledge that they remain problematic. I do not believe it is possible to enjoy them without understanding the context or to simply turn a blind eye. I quoted the following in a separate thread, and it is worth repeating here: [I]Far from outlandish eccentricities, the fears that generated Lovecraft’s stories and opinions were precisely those of the white, middle-class, heterosexual, Protestant-descended males who were most threatened by the shifting power relationships and values of the modern world. [/I] Alan Moore, in [I]The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft[/I]. (Norton, 2014). There is value in understanding these things; both why they can be problematic because they reflect the times (for example, passages from Howard exemplifying attitudes regarding other races and colonialism), and to a deeper extent, understanding how, for example, the intense racism and fear of the other of H. P. Lovecraft in inextricably linked to the birthing of cosmic horror. [/QUOTE]

Verification