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Frankenstein and philosophy : the shocking truth / edited by Nicolas Michaud.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 79.
- Popular culture and philosophy ; 79
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851--Criticism and interpretation.
- Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character)--Philosophy.
- Popular culture--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Open Court Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus sparked into life a fascination with science-gone-awry that refuses to die. From 1818 to present-day Hollywood, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his reanimated, stitched-together corpse has inspired (some would say) the very idea of modern science fiction and countless essays, movies, novels, songs, comic-books, and TV shows aiming to capture what was right, wrong, abominable, inevitable, scary, or funny in this classic tale.Can organic life be reanimated using electricity or genetic manipulation? If so, could Frankenstein's monste
- Contents:
- ""Table of Contents""; ""That Vital Spark of Life""; ""I. DR. FRANKENSTEIN'S EASY GUIDE TO ETERNAL LIFE ""; ""1. Wanna Live Forever? Don't Pull a Frankenstein!""; ""2. Victor Frankenstein in the Twenty-First Century ""; ""3. Embracing the Corpse People ""; ""4. So, You Want to Be a Mad Scientist ""; ""II. DR. FRANKENSTEIN'S TREATMENT NOTES""; ""5. That Frightening Frankenmetaphor""; ""6. Frankenstein's Failure""; ""7. Frankenstein and Zarathustra - Godless Men ""; ""8. Capitalism the Monster""; ""III. I MADE A MONSTER! NOW WHAT? ""; ""9. Is the Monster Free? ""
- ""10. How to Raise a Monster """"11. When Creations Go Bad ""; ""12. Who's to Blame? ""; ""IV. DR. FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER IDENTIFICATION FIELD GUIDE""; ""13. Sure It's Aliiiive, but Does It Have a Sooooul? ""; ""14. Who Is Frankenstein's Monster? ""; ""15. I'm the Person, You're the Monster""; ""16. What Love Means to a Creature ""; ""17. Getting Inside the Monster's Head ""; ""18. Come Back Dr. Frankenstein, All Is Forgiven ""; ""V. DR. FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER ASSEMBLY KIT ""; ""19. And We Thought He Was the Monster""; ""20. Adopting Frankenstein's Creature""; ""21. Why Science Is Horrific ""
- ""22. The Human and the Monstrous """"23. The Monster that Therefore I Am ""; ""VI. YOU CAN LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES ""; ""24. If We Could All Be Dr. Frankensteins. . . ""; ""25. Why It's Wrong to Make Monsters - or Babies""; ""26. Why Bad Things Happen to Good Monsters""; ""27. Good and Ugly ""; ""The Mad Creators ""; ""Bits and Pieces""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 17, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 0-8126-9842-8
- OCLC:
- 857800253
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