Frankenstein S Brain

Author : Jon Sutherland
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785784095

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Frankenstein's Brain by Jon Sutherland Pdf

200 years on from the first publication of Frankenstein, John Sutherland delves into the deepest, darkest corners of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece to see what strange and terrifying secrets lie within. Is Victor Frankenstein a member of the Illuminati? Was Mary Shelley really inspired by spaghetti? Whoever heard of a vegan monster? Exploring the lesser-known byways of both the original tale and its myriad film and pop culture spinoffs, from the bolts on Boris Karloff's neck to the role of Igor in Young Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Brain is a fascinating journey behind the scenes of this seminal work of literature and imagination. Includes a unique digest by the Guardian's John Crace.

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:39000001762991

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Frankenstein's Castle by Colin Wilson Pdf

Author : Jane Goodall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351935838

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Frankenstein's Science by Jane Goodall Pdf

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 : Christa Knellwolf King,Jane R. Goodall
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754654478

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Frankenstein's Science by Christa Knellwolf King,Jane R. Goodall Pdf

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 : Susan E. Lederer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813532000

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Frankenstein by Susan E. Lederer Pdf

This title highlights Shelley's novel and the context in which she conceived it. It then focuses on the redefinition of the Frankenstein myth in popular culture. The final section examines the continuing power of the story to articulate present day concerns raised by developments in biomedicine.

Author : Stephen Krensky
Publisher : Lerner Books [UK]
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781580133777

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Frankenstein by Stephen Krensky Pdf

Ghoulish figures come alive as each book in this series examines the origin of the monster folklore and mythology and their rise to popularity as media icons of today.

Author : Jessica L. Wright
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520387676

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The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity by Jessica L. Wright Pdf

"The care of the brain in early Christianity is a history of the brain during late antiquity. Through close attention to ancient medical material and its transformation in Christian texts, Jessica Wright traces the roots of cerebral subjectivity--the identification of the individual self with the brain, a belief very much still with us today--to tensions within early Christianity over the brain's role in self-governance and its inherent vulnerability. Examining how early Christians appropriated medical ideas, Wright tracks how they used the vulnerability of the brain as a trope for teaching ascetic practices, therapeutics of the soul, and the path to salvation. Bringing a medical lens to the religous discourse, this text demonstrates that rather than rejecting medical traditions, early Christianity developed through creatively integrating them"--Publisher's website.

Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545539432

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Frankenstein's Dog (Goosebumps Most Wanted #4) by R. L. Stine Pdf

Goosebumps now on Disney+! Kat is reluctant to visit her uncle Vic Frankenstein because of all the rumors about him. But Kat is relieved to find that even though he lives in a dark, old castle-like mansion, Uncle Vic is a quiet, gentle man, a scientist interested in building robots with artificial intelligence. Also, Kat loves Poochie, Vic's small, adorable, fluffy white dog. But after an accident occurs in her uncle's lab, strange things begin to happen. Has Kat created a monster? Or is something else responsible for the horror that is unleashed?

Author : Miriam Borham Puyal
Publisher : Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788413110516

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Frankenstein revisited by Miriam Borham Puyal Pdf

Este volumen busca reivindicar el legado de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley y celebrar los doscientos años de la publicación de su obra maestra, Frankenstein o el Moderno Prometeo (1818). Para ello, expone la permeabilidad del mito del científico y su criatura a través de una serie en ensayos que exploran adaptaciones contemporáneas en diversos medios (literatura, cine, televisión, videojuegos, YouTube) que demuestran la relevancia de Frankenstein en nuestros días. Los capítulos permiten al lector conocer las reescrituras populares del teatro del siglo XIX y su impacto en la ficción cinematográfica más reciente; descubrir la influencia de Shelley sobre otras escritoras con un inmenso legado, como es Margaret Atwood; reconocer las distintas apropiaciones del mito en los videojuegos y su reescritura en nuevos formatos audiovisuales; y, finalmente, mostrar cómo la intertextualidad con la novela de Shelley permite enriquecer narrativas que quizá parezcan más lejanas a simple vista. Este es, pues, un volumen esencial para quienes se interesen por las reescrituras contemporáneas del mito, con especial énfasis en la cultura popular o las nuevas plataformas de creación. Borham Puyal, Miriam (ed.). Frankestein revisited : the legacy of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece.

Author : Albert Green
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 057361203X

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Ms. Frankenstein's Monster by Albert Green Pdf

Author : Cecil Helman
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781616406417

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The Body of Frankenstein's Monster by Cecil Helman Pdf

Frankenstein. Werewolves. Dracula. These images aren't just imaginary creatures -- they're also powerful symbols of the body. The body can be thought of as a machine made up of parts like Frankenstein's monster, or as a creature ruled by animalistic urges, or as an entity that's vulnerable to infection from a diseased fiend. In "The Body of Frankenstein's Monster," Cecil Helman, M.D., expands our view of our bodies by exploring its cultural and artistic representations.

Author : Fernando Vidal,Francisco Ortega
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780823276097

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Being Brains by Fernando Vidal,Francisco Ortega Pdf

Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that “we are our brains,” which became widespread in the 1990s. Encouraged by advances in neuroimaging, the humanities and social sciences have taken a “neural turn,” in the form of neuro-subspecialties in fields such as anthropology, aesthetics, education, history, law, sociology, and theology. Dubious but successful commercial enterprises such as “neuromarketing” and “neurobics” have emerged to take advantage of the heightened sensitivity to all things neuro. While neither hegemonic nor monolithic, the neurocentric view embodies a powerful ideology that is at the heart of some of today’s most important philosophical, ethical, scientific, and political debates. Being Brains, chosen as 2018 Outstanding Book in the History of the Neurosciences by the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, examines the internal logic of such ideology, its genealogy, and its main contemporary incarnations.

Author : Brandy Schillace
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982113780

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Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher by Brandy Schillace Pdf

The “delightfully macabre” (The New York Times) true tale of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon…and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body. While surgeons on either side of the Iron Curtain competed to become the first to transplant organs like the kidney and heart, a young American neurosurgeon had an even more ambitious thought: Why not transplant the brain? Dr. Robert White was a friend to two popes and a founder of the Vatican’s Commission on Bioethics. He developed lifesaving neurosurgical techniques still used in hospitals today and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. But like Dr. Jekyll before him, Dr. White had another identity. In his lab, he was waging a battle against the limits of science and against mortality itself—working to perfect a surgery that would allow the soul to live on after the human body had died. This “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal), “provocative” (The Washington Post) tale follows his decades-long quest into tangled matters of science, Cold War politics, and faith, revealing the complex (and often murky) ethics of experimentation and remarkable innovations that today save patients from certain death. It’s a “masterful” (Science) look at our greatest fears and our greatest hopes—and the long, strange journey from science fiction to science fact.

Author : Durañona
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781616554170

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Creepy Archives by Durañona Pdf

Fresh and bizarre terrors abound in Creepy Archives Volume 20, collecting issues #94 - #98 of Warren Publishing's flagship horror anthology. Inside you'll find uncanny fables of magical children, shocking tales of extra-terrestrial encounters, and barbaric stories of warrior apes! Creepy Archives Volume 20 is not to be missed by horror-lovers and comics collectors everywhere.

Author : Various
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781630081102

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Creepy Archives Volume 21 by Various Pdf

Creepy Archives, the quintessential horror anthology, continues to deliver a multitude of monstrous plights and terrifying twist endings! This deluxe hardcover collects issues #99 to #103 of the influential Warren Publishing series and includes all original letters columns, color sections, and text pieces--along with a new foreword by José Villarrubia! Within these pages you'll shriek in fright as you witness the destruction of our planet, terrors arising from the ocean's depths, and hideous creatures and criminals lurking after every page turn! Contributors include timeless titans Bruce Jones, Richard Corben, Russ Heath, John Severin, Len Wein, and many others!