Lovecraft: The Dissonance Factor in Imaginative Literature
Lovecraft: The Dissonance Factor in Imaginative Literature | |
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Dirk W. Mosig | |
The Miskatonic vol. 6, no. 4 (1979) |
Abstract
An analysis Lovecraft's fiction in terms of Leon Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory (with some assistance from the theories of Sigmund Freud and Edward F. Edinger).
Translated in German as "Lovecraft: Der Dissonanz-faktor in der phantastischen Literatur" in Stadt ohne Nahmen (1981).
Works Cited
Articles
- Cognitive Dissonance
- The Great American Throw-Away
- Notes on Writing Weird Fiction
- Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction
- Toward A Greater Appreciation of H. P. Lovecraft: An Analytical Approach
- The Uncanny
Books
- A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
- Ego and Archetype
- The Roots of Horror in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
- Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft
Letters
Cited By
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Included In
Books
- Mosig at Last: A Psychologist Looks At H. P. Lovecraft
- Stadt ohne Nahmen (German-language)
Periodicals
- Crypt of Cthulhu 33
- Gothic vol. 1, no. 1
- The Miskatonic vol. 6, no. 4
- The Platte Review vol. 7, no. 1
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