I'm just as happy I don't get to decide who's in the canon because I am so ambivalent about HPL (and others): the vision, but also the hates and the prose. I think the sexism was endemic to the time. There are fewer women in his work than in other pulp writers because nobody gets rescued.
Haha, yeah. The invisibility, was it really that bad everywhere tho? But then, as you say, nobody gets rescued. It's not that kind of writing. And he was possibly weird about sex, personally anyway, so it's not like he'd necessarily want to write about anything to do with romance?
I don't mind the prose, even though it's hard to wade through. Like the critic, I feel like the stilted language actually makes the weird stuff weirder, like the words are trying to pretend that everything's normal and rational and okay, which highlights just how alarming the events are.
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Date: 2013-05-09 12:41 pm (UTC)I'm just as happy I don't get to decide who's in the canon because I am so ambivalent about HPL (and others): the vision, but also the hates and the prose. I think the sexism was endemic to the time. There are fewer women in his work than in other pulp writers because nobody gets rescued.
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Date: 2013-05-09 12:47 pm (UTC)I don't mind the prose, even though it's hard to wade through. Like the critic, I feel like the stilted language actually makes the weird stuff weirder, like the words are trying to pretend that everything's normal and rational and okay, which highlights just how alarming the events are.