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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... writers who collected around him in Jena , the polemic adjective of abuse , the antithesis of their organic imagery . On the other hand , many of the German Romantic writers had a considerable scientific background for their ideas ...
... writers who collected around him in Jena , the polemic adjective of abuse , the antithesis of their organic imagery . On the other hand , many of the German Romantic writers had a considerable scientific background for their ideas ...
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... writers , science and its practitioners are more closely associated with theoretical issues . The attack of the English Romantic writers on the scientific edifice was two - pronged , being directed against both its materialist and its ...
... writers , science and its practitioners are more closely associated with theoretical issues . The attack of the English Romantic writers on the scientific edifice was two - pronged , being directed against both its materialist and its ...
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... writers with a humanities background , the authorial voice is invariably critical , usually satirical . On the other hand , the robot stories of writers who have come to fiction from a career in science are usually markedly different in ...
... writers with a humanities background , the authorial voice is invariably critical , usually satirical . On the other hand , the robot stories of writers who have come to fiction from a career in science are usually markedly different in ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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