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The Discipline of the Eye: Lovecraft’s Visual Epistemology, Atmospheric Proof, and the Horror of Display

KAYLOR, Michael Matthew

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Discipline of the Eye: Lovecraft’s Visual Epistemology, Atmospheric Proof, and the Horror of Display

Vydání

Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference 2025, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, 2026, 2026

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60204 General literature studies

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ne

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Albrecht Dürer; atmospheric proof; cosmic horror; indeterminacy; H. P. Lovecraft; Nicholas Roerich; visual epistemology
Změněno: 1. 4. 2026 11:22, doc. Michael Matthew Kaylor, PhD.

Anotace

V originále

This paper argues that H. P. Lovecraft fashions cosmic horror through a paired technique of refusal and display: he bars the archive and withholds quotation, yet disciplines the eye to treat atmosphere as evidence. Reading his tales, his letters, and his essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” it traces a visual epistemology in which outline, surface, hue, and scene operate as atmospheric proof—signals of an alien order that resists an inventory of monsters. Readings of At the Mountains of Madness, “Pickman’s Model,” and “The Dreams in the Witch House” show how images (by Albrecht Dürer, Nicholas Roerich, and others) and “semantic wards” (placenames, repositories) coerce perception while keeping full disclosure out of reach. Indeterminacy, shared by narrator and reader, forces imaginative substitution, making the reader complicit in producing what cannot be stably seen. The result is an initiation in which seeing does not deliver mastery: the visible world becomes a destabilizing threshold that fractures selfhood and exposes the ethical risk of trained dread.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1558/2024, interní kód MU
Název: Jazyk, literatura a kultura v anglofonních kontextech II
Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Jazyk, literatura a kultura v anglofonních kontextech II