@article{Wilke2021,
  author    = {Wilke, Heinrich},
  title     = {Character and perspective in cosmic horror},
  series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur},
  volume    = {69},
  journal   = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {De Gruyter},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {0044-2305},
  doi       = {10.1515/zaa-2021-2038},
  pages     = {173 -- 190},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Despite their overt focus on inexplicable alien forces, cosmic horror stories are also determined by their human cast. Far from being merely fodder for horror, the characters significantly contribute to the generation of meaning, including that of the supernatural entity or phenomenon itself. The same holds for the narrators' (implicitly) political perspectives on the world of which they are part. Much of the perspective propounded in Lovecraft's cosmic horror stories partakes of myth, adopting in particular the latter's universal view and pronounced sidelining of humanity as a whole, which it intensifies to the point of horror. Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, this universal perspective is consistent with the racism permeating and structuring Lovecraft's writing. Though eschewing racism and universalism, the cosmic horror of Kiernan's "Tidal Forces" negotiates literary reflections of colonialism from an unreflective white perspective.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PetersvanHattum2021,
  author    = {Peters, Arne and van Hattum, Marije},
  title     = {Pseudonyms as carriers of contextualised threat in 19th-century Irish English threatening notices},
  series = {English world-wide : a journal of varieties of English},
  volume    = {42},
  journal   = {English world-wide : a journal of varieties of English},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Co.},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {0172-8865},
  doi       = {10.1075/eww.00059.pet},
  pages     = {29 -- 53},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {This paper explores functions of pseudonyms in written threatening communication from a cognitive sociolinguistic perspective. It addresses the semantic domains present in pseudonyms in a corpus of 19th-century Irish English threatening notices and their cognitive functions in the construction of both cultural-contextualised threat and the threatener's identity. We identify eight semantic domains that are accessed recurrently in order to create threat. Contributing to the notion of threat involves menacing war, violence, darkness and perdition directly, while also constructing a certain persona for the threatener that highlights their motivation, moral superiority, historical, local and circumstantial expertise, and their physical and mental aptitude. We argue that pseudonyms contribute to the deontic force of the threat by accessing cultural categories and schemas as well as conceptual metaphors and metonymies. Finally, we suggest that pseudonyms function as post-positioned semantic frame setters, providing a cognitive lens through which the entire threatening notice must be interpreted.},
  language  = {en}
}