How did the "weird" emerge as a distinct concept in Western literature and thought more generally? The grotesque, the eldritch, the malevolently and particularistically divine (as opposed to the Platonic God), any things like that.

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Anonymous Thu Oct 5 02:46:28 2017 No.10108974 [Reply] [Original]

How did the "weird" emerge as a distinct concept in Western literature and thought more generally? The grotesque, the eldritch, the malevolently and particularistically divine (as opposed to the Platonic God), any things like that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 03:51:02 2017 No.10109086 Different people were just willing to venture deeper and deeper into the wilderness of writing. Finnegans Wake The Garden of Forking Paths Timothy Dexter Beckett Proust Lovecraft

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 04:22:08 2017 No.10109138 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_fiction

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 05:50:00 2017 No.10109283 >>10108974 IIRC the word "wierd" comes from an ancient German word for destiny or fate, and eventually took on folklorish religious connotations afterwards

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 05:52:09 2017 No.10109286 It has associations with Freudian Uncanniness.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 08:20:34 2017 No.10109665 >>10108974 You are too foucault for /lit/ we just nazi here

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