From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western LiteratureJohns Hopkins University Press, 1994 - 417 páginas They 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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... machines can produce new machines . Man , by contrast , becomes increasingly helpless , relying upon the machine to do all his hard labor , until his organs atrophy through disuse . Thus , as the machine devel- ops , man regresses to an ...
... machines can produce new machines . Man , by contrast , becomes increasingly helpless , relying upon the machine to do all his hard labor , until his organs atrophy through disuse . Thus , as the machine devel- ops , man regresses to an ...
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... Machine Stops " ( 1909 ) . This latter story describes a world in which virtually the whole population of the earth lives underground , totally dependent on the Machine for their surviv- al . " The Machine develops - but not on our ...
... Machine Stops " ( 1909 ) . This latter story describes a world in which virtually the whole population of the earth lives underground , totally dependent on the Machine for their surviv- al . " The Machine develops - but not on our ...
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... Machine ( 1978 ) , set in the year 2005 , James P. Hogan develops a scientist hero who has to battle against the government - military machine . Forced to work on " defence , " his physicist , Dr. Bradley Clifford , appears to ...
... Machine ( 1978 ) , set in the year 2005 , James P. Hogan develops a scientist hero who has to battle against the government - military machine . Forced to work on " defence , " his physicist , Dr. Bradley Clifford , appears to ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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