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The music of the abyss: Nature in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s The Music of Erich Zann
The music of the abyss: Nature in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s The Music of Erich Zann

Author(s): Bartosz Kowalczyk
Subject(s): Music, American Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Music; lovecraft; modernism; nature; modernity;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s short story The Music of Erich Zann, with a view to presenting the conflict between modernity and nature in Lovecraft’s works. The text in question, along with supplementary texts, provides information that allows us to reformulate the perception of Lovecraft’s works, or more precisely, the category of “supernatural horror.”

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 172-185
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English