From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western LiteratureThey were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well-intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove--the scientists of film and fiction, cultural archetypes that reflected ancient fears of tampering with the unknown or unleashing the little-understood powers of nature. In From Faust to Strangelove Roslyn Haynes offers the first detailed and comprehensive study of the image of the scientist in Western literature and film--from medieval images of alchemists to present-day depictions of cyberpunks and genetic engineers. |
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4 The Romantic writers ' attack on this entrenched position of science was more
radical than that of their predecessors . ... far from inimical to the Romantics ;
indeed , the Prometheus figure , representing the desire to understand the
universe ...
4 The Romantic writers ' attack on this entrenched position of science was more
radical than that of their predecessors . ... far from inimical to the Romantics ;
indeed , the Prometheus figure , representing the desire to understand the
universe ...
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It is therefore not surprising that the English Romantic writers identified science
with technology , with the ugliness of the factories invading the countryside , and
with the reification of the individual as an extension of the machine at which he ...
It is therefore not surprising that the English Romantic writers identified science
with technology , with the ugliness of the factories invading the countryside , and
with the reification of the individual as an extension of the machine at which he ...
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The Romantic writers ' reaction against rationalism and reductionism and their
development of an alternative explanation of the natural world spanned nearly a
century ; therefore their emphasis inevitably varied at different times and places .
The Romantic writers ' reaction against rationalism and reductionism and their
development of an alternative explanation of the natural world spanned nearly a
century ; therefore their emphasis inevitably varied at different times and places .
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The Scientist under Scrutiny | 143 |
The Scientist as Hero | 162 |
The Impersonal Scientist | 211 |
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| Título | From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature, Roslynn Doris Haynes |
| Autores | Roslynn D. Haynes, Roslynn Haynes |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 27 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0801848016, 9780801848018 |
| Largo | 417 páginas |
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