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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... novel , commenting : " He had troubled no more about the application of the stuff he was going to turn out than if he had been a machine that makes guns " ( 22 ) . This comparison of Cavor to a machine becomes most significant when , at ...
... novel , commenting : " He had troubled no more about the application of the stuff he was going to turn out than if he had been a machine that makes guns " ( 22 ) . This comparison of Cavor to a machine becomes most significant when , at ...
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... novel Die Erben des Untergangs . Roman einer Zukunft ( The heirs of death : a novel of the future ) ( 1959 ) features just such a protagonist , who resurrects the world after the devastation of war . Again , the miracles of science are ...
... novel Die Erben des Untergangs . Roman einer Zukunft ( The heirs of death : a novel of the future ) ( 1959 ) features just such a protagonist , who resurrects the world after the devastation of war . Again , the miracles of science are ...
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... novel The Millennium : A Comedy of the Year 2000 , in which a new radioactive element , radiumite , is let loose by a mad professor and kills all life on Earth except for eleven plane passengers happily flying above the contamination ...
... novel The Millennium : A Comedy of the Year 2000 , in which a new radioactive element , radiumite , is let loose by a mad professor and kills all life on Earth except for eleven plane passengers happily flying above the contamination ...
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Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus | 9 |
Bacons New Scientists | 23 |
Foolish Virtuosi | 35 |
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From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western ... Roslynn Doris Haynes Vista de fragmentos - 1994 |
From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western ... Roslynn Doris Haynes,Roslynn Haynes Sin vista previa disponible - 1994 |
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