![]() ![]() ![]() Reference: Into the woods: The Human Geography of Clark Ashton Smith's Averoigne By Stefan Dziemianowicz In The Dark Eidolon 3 The Averoigne stories are based in a relatively mundane (for Smith) province in medieval France This backdrop provides a platform for Smith to explore several 'non-fantastic' areas that the rest of his work does not Many all to human junxpositions are exploded uniquely in this cycle, such as: Animal and man religion and science the divine and the mortalĭescription-Location: 'region in France, heavily forested - located somewhere between Tours and Moulins a "main highway" between those two cities goes through it ( The End of the Story, Clark Ashton Smith) Cycles of Clark Ashton Smith Boyd PearsonĬlark Ashton Smith's work can be divided in to a number of cycles: Averoigne, Hyperborea, Ironic-Romantic Fiction, Mars, Poseidonis, Xiccarph, Zothique Each of which represent a shared world or theme Creating for Smith the desired backdrop in to which to explore his fantasies Below is a list of works contained within each cycle and some brief notes on the cycleĪs well as theses Smith classified cycles, one can break his work in to a number of other categories such as those works that can be considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos Averoigne ![]()
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