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Eternal Frankenstein

Author : Ross E. Lockhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1939905370

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Eternal Frankenstein by Ross E. Lockhart Pdf

Word Horde is proud to publish Eternal Frankenstein, an anthology edited by Ross E. Lockhart, featuring sixteen resurrecting tales of terror and wonder paying tribute to Mary Shelley, her Monster, and their entwined legacy.

Adapting Frankenstein

Author : Dennis R. Cutchins,Dennis R. Perry
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781526108937

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Adapting Frankenstein by Dennis R. Cutchins,Dennis R. Perry Pdf

This edited collection explores the afterlife of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in theatre and film, radio, literature and graphics novels, making a substantial contribution to the field of adaptation studies.

Frankenstein (Original Unabridged Version)

Author : Mary Shelley
Publisher : Golden Valley Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947215140

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Frankenstein (Original Unabridged Version) by Mary Shelley Pdf

"The novel 'Frankenstein' by Marry Shelley is a very famous gothic novel and has sold many copies till date. It is a compelling book that has managed to grab the attention of audiences since day-one. According to some, the monster of Frankenstein is symbolic of the industrialization that created havoc and destruction in Europe in the nineteenth century. However, according to others, it stands for the fears in the writer's mind to changing times and new events. The novel is often classified as gothic since it dwells on mystery and the supernatural world. The setting is that of dark, sublime and exotic, making the reader uneasy. And, the 'double' feature only adds to the mystery and the sensation for the reader. According to some critics in the past and present, this is the first extant scientific novel written in English language. The writing style of the author is truly remarkable and is the main highlight of this book. The plot of the book has been well thought of and it has all the essentials that make a book a classic. It has the right dose of love, suspense, friendship and, quintessential to this book, human psychology. The book provides the reader with an understanding on life in a totally new and refreshing manner."

A Genealogy of Cyborgothic

Author : Dongshin Yi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351962506

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A Genealogy of Cyborgothic by Dongshin Yi Pdf

In his provocative and timely study of posthumanism, Dongshin Yi adopts an imaginary/imaginative approach to exploring the transformative power of the cyborg, a strategy that introduces balance to the current discourses dominated by the practicalities of technoscience and the dictates of anthropocentrism. Proposing the term "cyborgothic" to characterize a new genre that may emerge from gothic literature and science fiction, Yi introduces mothering as an aesthetic and ethical practice that can enable a posthumanist relationship between human and non-human beings. Yi examines the cyborg's literary manifestations in novels, including The Mysteries of Udolpho, Frankenstein, Dracula, Arrowsmith, and He, She and It, alongside philosophical and critical texts such as Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment, John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism and System of Logic, William James's essays on pragmatism, ethical treaties on otherness and things, feminist writings on motherhood, and recent studies of posthumanism. Arguing humans imagine the cyborg in ways that are seriously limited by fear of the unknown and current understandings of science and technology, Yi identifies in gothic literature a practice of the beautiful that extends the operation of sensibility, heightened by gothic manifestations or situations, to surrounding objects and people so that new feelings flow in and attenuate fear. In science fiction, which demonstrates how society has accommodated science, Yi locates ethical corrections to the anthropocentric trajectory that such accommodation has taken. Thus, A Genealogy of Cyborgothic imagines a new literary genre that helps envision a cyborg-friendly, non-anthropocentric posthuman society. Encoded with gothic literature's aesthetic embrace of fear and science fiction's ethical criticism of anthropocentrism, the cyborgothic retains the prospective nature of these genres and develops mothering as an aesthetico-ethical practice that both humans and cyborgs should perform.

Frankenstein and Philosophy

Author : Nicolas Michaud
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812698367

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Frankenstein and Philosophy by Nicolas Michaud Pdf

Ever since it was first unleashed in 1818 the story of Victor Frankenstein and his reanimated, stitched-together corpse has inspired intense debate. Can organic life be reanimated using electricity or genetic manipulation? If so, could Frankenstein’s monster really teach itself to read and speak as Mary Shelley imagined? Do monsters have rights, or responsibilities to those who would as soon kill them? What is it about music that so affects Frankenstein’s monster, or any of us? What does Mel Brook’s Frau Blucher say to contemporary eco-feminism? Why are some Frankenstein’s flops and others historic successes? Is there a true Frankenstein? Why are children, but not adults, drawn to Shelley’s monster? And what is a “monster,” anyway? Frankenstein and Philosophy calls 25 philosophers to stitch together these and other questions as they apply to history’s greatest horror franchise. Some chapters treat the Frankenstein films, others the original novel, and yet others the many comic books, novels, and modern adaptations. Together they pay tribute to perhaps the most enduring pop culture icon and the fundamental fears, hopes, and puzzles it raises.

Frankenstein (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Author : Mary Shelley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393614701

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Frankenstein (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) by Mary Shelley Pdf

The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition. Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley’s finest work. This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author. The text is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones. It is accompanied by an expansive new preface, explanatory annotations, a map of Geneva and its environs, and seven illustrations, five of them new to the Second Edition. Context is provided in three supporting sections: “Circumstance, Influence, Composition, Revision,” “Reception, Impact, Adaptation,” and “Sources, Influences, Analogues.” Among the Second Edition’s new inclusions are historical-cultural studies by Susan Tyler Hitchcock, William St. Clair, and Elizabeth Young; Chris Baldrick on the novel’s reception; and David Pirie on the novel’s many film adaptations. Related excerpts from the Bible and from John Milton’s Paradise Lost are now included, as is Charles Lamb’s poem “The Old Familiar Faces.” “Criticism” collects sixteen major interpretations of Frankenstein, nine of them new to the Second Edition. The new contributors are Peter Brooks, Bette London, Garrett Stewart, James. A. W. Heffernan, Patrick Brantlinger, Jonathan Bate, Anne Mellor, Jane Goodall, and Christa Knellwolf. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Frankenstein

Author : Mary Shelley
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131708993

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Pdf

Mary Shelley S Frankenstein, True To Early Nineteenth-Century Romanticism, Provides A Chilling Account Of The Con-Sequences Of Tampering With Nature And Of Transgressing Human Limits To Knowledge. Like Prometheus, The Greek Mythological Figure Who By Creating Man Consigned Both Himself And His Creation To Eternal Suffering, The Scientist Victor Frankenstein And The Unnamed Monster He Creates Are Doomed To Untold Misery And Lonely Deaths. A Brilliant Reflection Of Life In A Turbulent Period Of European History, Frankenstein Synthesizes Fundamental Philosophical, Ideological And Spiritual Concerns And Is A Subject Of Constant Critique And Review In The Light Of New Interests.

Frankenstein

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Creation in literature
ISBN : 9781438115047

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Frankenstein by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a collection of writings exploring the characters from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Frankenstein

Author : Alex Baladi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : UOM:39015063336104

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780791093030

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Harold Bloom Pdf

Each new volume is a biographical and critical review of one of the world's most important writers with expert analysis by Harold Bloom.

Victor Frankenstein, the Monster and the Shadows of Technology

Author : Robert D. Romanyshyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429647819

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Victor Frankenstein, the Monster and the Shadows of Technology by Robert D. Romanyshyn Pdf

In Victor Frankenstein, the Monster and the Shadows of Technology: The Frankenstein Prophecies, Romanyshyn asks eight questions that uncover how Mary Shelley’s classic work Frankenstein haunts our world. Providing a uniquely interdisciplinary assessment, Romanyshyn combines Jungian theory, literary criticism and mythology to explore answers to the query at the heart of this book: who is the monster? In the first six questions, Romanyshyn explores how Victor’s story and the Monster’s tale linger today as the dark side of Frankenstein’s quest to create a new species that would bless him as its creator. Victor and the Monster are present in the guises of climate crises, the genocides of our "god wars," the swelling worldwide population of refugees, the loss of place in digital space, the Western obsession with eternal youth and the eclipse of the biological body in genetic and computer technologies that are redefining what it means to be human. In the book’s final two questions, Romanyshyn uncovers some seeds of hope in Mary Shelley’s work and explores how the Monster’s tale reframes her story as a love story. This important book will be essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian theory, literature, philosophy and psychology, psychotherapists in practice and in training, and for all who are concerned with the political, social and cultural crises we face today.

Monstrous Progeny

Author : Lester D. Friedman,Allison B. Kavey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813573700

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Monstrous Progeny by Lester D. Friedman,Allison B. Kavey Pdf

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevant in a culture radically different from the one that spawned its birth? Monstrous Progeny takes readers on a fascinating exploration of the Frankenstein family tree, tracing the literary and intellectual roots of Shelley’s novel from the sixteenth century and analyzing the evolution of the book’s figures and themes into modern productions that range from children’s cartoons to pornography. Along the way, media scholar Lester D. Friedman and historian Allison B. Kavey examine the adaptation and evolution of Victor Frankenstein and his monster across different genres and in different eras. In doing so, they demonstrate how Shelley’s tale and its characters continue to provide crucial reference points for current debates about bioethics, artificial intelligence, cyborg lifeforms, and the limits of scientific progress. Blending an extensive historical overview with a detailed analysis of key texts, the authors reveal how the Frankenstein legacy arose from a series of fluid intellectual contexts and continues to pulsate through an extraordinary body of media products. Both thought-provoking and entertaining, Monstrous Progeny offers a lively look at an undying and significant cultural phenomenon.

T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film

Author : Richard Walsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567686916

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T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film by Richard Walsh Pdf

The T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film introduces postgraduate readers to the critical field of Jesus and/on film. The bulk of biblical films feature Jesus, as protagonist, in cameo, or as a looming background presence or pattern. The handbook assesses the field in light of the work of important biblical film critics including chapters from the leading voices in the field and showcasing the diversity of work done by scholars in the field. Movies discussed include The Passion of the Christ, The King of Kings, Jesus of Nazareth, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Son of Man, and Mary Magdalene. The chapters range across two broad areas: 1) Jesus films, understood broadly as filmed passion plays, other relocations of Jesus, historical Jesus treatments, and Jesus adjacent cinema (privileging invented characters or “minor” gospel characters); and 2) other cinematic Jesuses, including followers who imitate Jesus devotionally or aesthetically, (Christian) Christ figures, antichrists, yet other messiahs, and competing Jesuses in a pluralist world. As one leaves the confines of Christian theology, the question of what a film or interpreter is doing with Jesus or Christ becomes something to be determined, not necessarily something traditional.

The Afterlives of Frankenstein

Author : Robert I. Lublin,Elizabeth A. Fay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350351578

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The Afterlives of Frankenstein by Robert I. Lublin,Elizabeth A. Fay Pdf

An exploration of the treatment of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in popular art and culture, this book examines adaptations in film, comics, theatre, art, video-games and more, to illuminate how the novel's myth has evolved in the two centuries since its publication. Divided into four sections, The Afterlives of Frankenstein considers the cultural dialogues Mary Shelley's novel has engaged with in specific historical moments; the extraordinary examples of how Frankenstein has suffused our cultural consciousness; and how the Frankenstein myth has become something to play with, a locus for reinvention and imaginative interpretation. In the final part, artists respond to the Frankenstein legacy today, reintroducing it into cultural circulation in ways that speak creatively to current anxieties and concerns. Bringing together popular interventions that riff off Shelley's major themes, chapters survey such works as Frankenstein in Baghdad, Bob Dylan's recent “My Own Version of You”, the graphic novel series Destroyer with its Black cast of characters, Jane Louden's The Mummy!, the first Japanese translation of Frankenstein, “The New Creator”, the iconic Frankenstein mask and Kenneth Brannagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein film. A deep-dive into the crevasses of Frankenstein adaptation and lore, this volume offers compelling new directions for scholarship surrounding the novel through dynamic critical and creative responses to Shelley's original.

Frankenstein

Author : Eternal Sky Classics,Mary Shelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798694576086

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Frankenstein by Eternal Sky Classics,Mary Shelley Pdf

Frankenstein, the title character in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein, the prototypical "mad scientist" who creates a monster by which he is eventually killed. The name Frankenstein has become popularly attached to the creature itself, who has become one of the best-known monsters in the history of motion pictures. Shelley's novel, Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (1818), is a combination of Gothic horror story and science fiction. The book tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss student of natural science who creates an artificial man from pieces of corpses and brings his creature to life. Though it initially seeks affection, the monster inspires loathing in everyone who meets it. Lonely and miserable, the monster turns upon its creator, who eventually loses his life. The first Frankenstein film was produced by Thomas Edison in 1910. Two German films, The Golem (1914) and Homunculus (1916), dealt with a similar theme derived from Jewish folklore. The Hollywood film Frankenstein (1931), with Boris Karloff as the monster, was based as much on The Golem as on Shelley's novel. This film was a great success and was followed by dozens of variations on the Frankenstein story in films such as Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Frankenstein Conquers the World (1969), a Japanese-made version. The character of the monster has also been used as a vehicle for easy humour--as in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) and Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein (1974). Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, (born Aug. 30, 1797, London, Eng.--died Feb. 1, 1851, London), English Romantic novelist best known as the author of Frankenstein.