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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... evil , a Promethean figure who asserts the rights of man over a tyrannical order that seeks to enslave him . This latter characterization of Faustus is the one that predominates in German Romantic literature . Some- where in between is ...
... evil , a Promethean figure who asserts the rights of man over a tyrannical order that seeks to enslave him . This latter characterization of Faustus is the one that predominates in German Romantic literature . Some- where in between is ...
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... evil hands . However , the reasons why it was more commonly represented at this time as being used for malevolent rather than benign purposes are more complex . At the most basic level , evil characters in fiction are simply more ...
... evil hands . However , the reasons why it was more commonly represented at this time as being used for malevolent rather than benign purposes are more complex . At the most basic level , evil characters in fiction are simply more ...
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... evil and ruthless , and to a lesser extent this is true of the scientists as a group . They have gathered idealistically , to discover a new breakthrough in communications , but in- stead they develop the deadly TX bomb , capable of ...
... evil and ruthless , and to a lesser extent this is true of the scientists as a group . They have gathered idealistically , to discover a new breakthrough in communications , but in- stead they develop the deadly TX bomb , capable of ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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