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Tag: Short Fiction

Written by Bronte CronsberryJuly 4, 2020August 26, 2020

Academically Ugly: Geometric Horror in H.P. Lovecraft

One of the consistent motifs in the short fiction of H.P. Lovecraft is the description of creatures and spaces as non-Euclidean. Most readers are still able to identify the horror of these creations (as well as the rampant racism in the stories) but the description itself is highly academic. For many readers this isn’t enough […]

Written by Bronte CronsberryJune 26, 2019

It’s a Blind Love: Mothers in the Short Fiction of Sarah Meehan Sirk and Jamaica Kincaid

The cliché that love is blind is most often applied to romantic relationships where love is enough to mask the flaws of one person. However, in the case of the mother-daughter relationships in the short fiction of authors like Sarah Meehan Sirk and Jamaica Kincaid love is blind the sense that very particular outpourings of […]

Written by Bronte CronsberryMarch 19, 2019March 21, 2019

Left Out of Heaven: Considerations of Mundane Horror and Susan Pevensie

C.S Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia are steeped in Christian theology to a degree that even to a reader not searching for it some themes come through clearly. From the publication of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1950 with its clear allusions to the crucifixion to The Last Battle’s end of days as […]

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