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Author : Orrin N. C. Wang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501372209
"A collection of essays on Frankenstein written by distinguished and younger scholars of Romantic studies, utilizing ambitious critical theories in literary and cultural studies"--
Author : Orrin N. C. Wang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501360817
This collection provides new readings of Frankenstein from a myriad of established and burgeoning theoretical vantages including narrative theory, cognitive and affect theory, the new materialism, media theory, critical race theory, queer and gender studies, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and others. Demonstrating how the literary power of Frankenstein rests on its ability to theorize questions of mind, self, language, matter, and the socio-historic that also drive these critical approaches, this volume illustrates the ongoing intellectual richness found both in Mary Shelley's work and contemporary ways of thinking about it.
Author : Fred Botting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041142675
This is a critical reading of Frankenstein by Mary Godwin, later Shelley, which aims to encompass the writer, her intentions and literary antecedents, the complexities of the novel itself and the relevance of all the hideous progeny that her monster has called forth into popular culture.
Author : Sidney Perkowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781681776972
The tale of a tormented creature created in a laboratory began on a rainy night in 1816 in the imagination of a nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Since its publication two years later, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus has spread around the globe through every possible medium and variation. Frankenstein has not been out of print once in 200 years. “Frankenstein” has become an indelible part of popular culture, and is shorthand for anything bizarre and human-made; for instance, genetically modified crops are “Frankenfood.”Conversely, Frankenstein’s monster has also become a benign Halloween favorite. Yet for all its long history, Frankenstein's central premise—that science, not magic or God, can create a living being, and thus these creators must answer for their actions as humans, not Gods—is most relevant today as scientists approach creating synthetic life.In its popular and cultural weight and its expression of the ethical issues raised by the advance of science, physicist Sidney Perkowitz and film expert Eddy von Muller have brought together scholars and scientists, artists and directions—including Mel Brooks—to celebrate and examine Mary Shelley’s marvelous creation and its legacy as the monster moves into his next century.
Author : Reina Lewis,Sara Mills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415942744
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Mary Shelley
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131708993
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.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780791093580
This book presents a collection of essays exploring various aspects of the novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley.
Author : Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400847778
During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, Londoners were enthralled by a strange fluid called electricity. In examining this period, Iwan Morus moves beyond the conventional focus on the celebrated Michael Faraday to discuss other electrical experimenters, who aspired to spectacular public displays of their discoveries. Revealing connections among such diverse fields as scientific lecturing, laboratory research, telegraphic communication, industrial electroplating, patent conventions, and innovative medical therapies, Morus also shows how electrical culture was integrated into a new machine-dominated, consumer society. He sees the history of science as part of the history of production, and emphasizes the labor and material resources needed to make electricity work. Frankenstein's Children explains that Faraday, with his colleagues at the Royal Society and the Royal Institution, looked at science as the province of a highly trained elite, who presented their abstract picture of nature only to select groups. The book contrasts Faraday's views with those of other practitioners, to whom science was a practical, skill-based activity open to all. In venues such as the Galleries of Practical Science, electrical phenomena were presented to a public less distinguished but no less enthusiastic and curious than Faraday's audiences. William Sturgeon, for instance, emphasized building apparatus and exhibiting electrical phenomena, while chemists, instrument-makers, and popular lecturers supported the London Electrical Society. These previously little studied "electricians" contributed much to the birth of "Frankenstein's children"--the not completely benign effects of electricity on a new consumer world. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Jack Wallen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151914475X
Every soul has a dark corner. Only Victor Frankenstein was brave enough to play God in its shadows. Man. Creation. Monster. If music be the food of life... play on. With the help of his deceased father's work, Victor Frankenstein develops a theory to reanimate the dead. Through the art of surgery and music, Victor creates a man capable of unmaking his life and driving the Frankenstein legacy to ruin.
Author : Christa Knellwolf King,Jane R. Goodall
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754654478
Frankenstein's Science contextualizes this widely taught novel in contemporary scientific and literary debates, providing new historical scholarship into areas of science and pseudo-science that generated fierce controversy in Mary Shelley's time: anatomy
Author : Eva-Maria Ehrhardt
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783668302266
Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: Every reader who has spent some time with an infant has experienced the following scenario at least once: you are playing hide-and-seek with the child and, out of the blue, the child covers her eyes with her hands, believing to have found the most amazing hiding place. For the child, it is clear: he or she cannot see the adult, thus, the adult cannot see him/ her. In fact, the child is probably sitting in the middle of the room, without any object covering him/ her (except for the hands), and with the adult standing right in front of the child. This example is the perfect introduction to the topic of the present master thesis. The child is not yet able to understand that the adult is capable of seeing, believing or knowing something other than that which the child can. Or, in other words, the child does not understand that the adult has another mental state than its own. Thus, the child does not have a Theory of Mind, yet. This master thesis deals with instances of Theory of Mind (such as the reading of minds, prediction of future actions, false and true beliefs) in Mary Shelley's famous work Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818). The term Theory of mind (abbreviated as ToM) was introduced in 1978 by psychologists David Premack and Guy Woodruff in their famous paper “Does the Chimpanzee have a Theory of Mind?”. ToM denotes the ability of an individual to have a certain self-awareness, that is to be aware of one's own mental state, one's own beliefs (also false beliefs) but furthermore, the individual has to be able to attribute a mental state not only to themselves but to another individual as well. Given these conditions, the literature would suggest that this person has a Theory of Mind. I will discuss Theory of Mind in more detail in the second chapter. Besides Theory of Mind, there are also other terms that can be found in the literature, such as folk psychology, mindreading, mentalizing or even social cognition. [...]
Author : Carol Margaret Davison,Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319781426
Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein, at its bicentenary, in such fields and disciplines as digital technology, film, theatre, dance, medicine, book illustration, science fiction, comic books, science, and performance art. This ground-breaking, celebratory volume, edited by two established Gothic Studies scholars, reassesses Frankenstein’s global impact for the twenty-first century across a myriad of cultures and nations, from Japan, Mexico, and Turkey, to Britain, Iraq, Europe, and North America. Offering compelling critical dissections of reincarnations of Frankenstein, a generically hybrid novel described by its early reviewers as a “bold,” “bizarre,” and “impious” production by a writer “with no common powers of mind”, this collection interrogates its sustained relevance over two centuries during which it has engaged with such issues as mortality, global capitalism, gender, race, embodiment, neoliberalism, disability, technology, and the role of science.
Author : Jane Goodall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351935838
Though Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has inspired a vast body of criticism, there are no book-length studies that contextualise this widely taught novel in contemporary scientific and literary debates. The essays in this volume by leading writers in their fields provide new historical scholarship into areas of science and pseudo-science that generated fierce controversy in Mary Shelley's time: anatomy, electricity, medicine, teratology, Mesmerism, quackery and proto-evolutionary biology. The collection embraces a multifaceted view of the exciting cultural climate in Britain and Europe from 1780 to 1830. While Frankenstein is all too often read as a cautionary tale of the inherent dangers of uncontrolled scientific experimentation, the essays here take the reader back to a period when experimenters and radical thinkers viewed science as the harbinger of social innovation that would counter the virulent conservative backlash following the French Revolution. The collection will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars specialising in Romanticism, cultural history, philosophy and the history of science.
Author : Anne H. Stevens
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781770485617
Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It is designed for students at the undergraduate level or for others needing a broad synthesis of the long history of literary theory. An introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the major issues within literary theory and criticism; further chapters survey theory and criticism in antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth century. For twentieth- and twenty-first-century theory, the discussion is subdivided into separate chapters on formalist, historicist, political, and psychoanalytic approaches. The final chapter applies a variety of theoretical concepts and approaches to two famous works of literature: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Author : Elizabeth Young
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814797150
For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture, in fiction, film, essays, oratory, painting, and other media, and in works by both whites and African Americans. Black Frankenstein stories, Young argues, effect four kinds of racial critique: they humanize the slave; they explain, if not justify, black violence; they condemn the slaveowner; and they expose the instability of white power. The black Frankenstein's monster has served as a powerful metaphor for reinforcing racial hierarchy—and as an even more powerful metaphor for shaping anti-racist critique. Illuminating the power of parody and reappropriation, Black Frankenstein tells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics.