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The Evolution of Horror : A Neo-Lovecraftian Poetics. / Clasen, Mathias.
New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature: The Critical Influence of H. P. Lovecraft. red. / Sean Moreland. UK : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. s. 43-60.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport/proceeding › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The Evolution of Horror
T2 - A Neo-Lovecraftian Poetics
AU - Clasen, Mathias
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Recent advances in the sciences of human nature, such as evolutionarypsychology, the cognitive science of religion, and cognitive and affectiveneuroscience, corroborate key aspects of Lovecraft’s poetics of horror asdelineated in Supernatural Horror in Literature, including his claim about anatural basis for the appeal of horror stories and his claim that people arebiologically susceptible to superstitious fear. Horror and weird stories depend onancient, evolved mechanisms in human nature, as Lovecraft claimed, andbecause of recent scientific advances, we are now in a position to chart thesemechanisms and explain their evolutionary history as well as their relevance tothe academic study of horror and weird fiction.
AB - Recent advances in the sciences of human nature, such as evolutionarypsychology, the cognitive science of religion, and cognitive and affectiveneuroscience, corroborate key aspects of Lovecraft’s poetics of horror asdelineated in Supernatural Horror in Literature, including his claim about anatural basis for the appeal of horror stories and his claim that people arebiologically susceptible to superstitious fear. Horror and weird stories depend onancient, evolved mechanisms in human nature, as Lovecraft claimed, andbecause of recent scientific advances, we are now in a position to chart thesemechanisms and explain their evolutionary history as well as their relevance tothe academic study of horror and weird fiction.
UR - https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319954769
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-95477-6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-95477-6
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-319-95476-9
SP - 43
EP - 60
BT - New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature
A2 - Moreland, Sean
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - UK
ER -