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Victor Frankenstein, the monster and the shadows of technology : the Frankenstein prophecies / Robert D. Romanyshyn.
Van Pelt Library PR5397.F73 R66 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Romanyshyn, Robert D. (Robert Donald), 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.
- Jung, C. G.
- Literature and technology.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 126 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Summary:
- "In Victor Frankenstein, the Monster and the Shadows of Technology: The Frankenstein Prohecies, 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?"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Resurrecting the dead : is Mary Shelley's story a prophecy of the dangers of acting as gods?
- The melting polar ice : is Mary Shelley's story a prophecy of the dying of nature?
- The monster's body : is Mary Shelley's story a prophecy of the monster's descendants?
- Out of Africa to the moon : is Mary Shelley's story a prophecy of creating a new species of humankind?
- From astronauts to angels in clouds : is Mary Shelley's story a prophecy of the last generations of humankind?
- WWW : adrift in the digital world : is Mary Shelley's story a prophecy of being homeless in a wired, webbed world?
- Who is the monster? is Mary Shelley's story a prophecy of a radical ethics?
- Other seeds of hope in Mary Shelley's story: is Mary Shelley's story a prophecy of new beginnings?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-122) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Romanyshyn, Robert D. (Robert Donald), 1942- author. Victor Frankenstein, the monster and the shadows of technology
- ISBN:
- 9780367137311
- 0367137313
- 9780367137328
- 0367137321
- OCLC:
- 1081358601
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