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Frankenstein and its classics : the modern Prometheus from antiquity to science fiction /
"Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and myth. Presenting twelve new essays intended for students, scholars, and other readers of Mary Shelley...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2018
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Promethean heat. Patchwork paratexts and monstrous metapoetics: "after tea M reads Ovid" / Genevieve Liveley ; Prometheus and Dr. Darwin's Vermicelli: another stir to the Frankenstein broth / Martin Priestman ; The Politics of revivification in Lucan's Bellum Civile and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Andrew M. McClellan ; Romantic Prometheis and the molding of Frankenstein / Suzanne L. Barnett ; Why "The Year without a Summer"? / David A. Gapp ; The sublime monster: Frankenstein, or the modern Pandora / Matthew Gumpert.
- Part II. Hideous progeny. Cupid and Psyche in Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Apuleian science fiction? / Benjamin Eldon Stevens ; "The pale student of unhallowed arts": Frankenstein, Aristotle, and the wisdom of Lucretius / Carl A. Rubino ; Timothy Leary and the psychodynamics of stealing fire / Neșe Devenot ; Frankenfilm: classical monstrosity in Bill Morrison's Spark of Being / Jesse Weiner ; Alex Garland's Ex Machina or the modern epimetheus / Emma Hammond ; The postmodern Prometheus and posthuman reproductions in science fiction / Brett M. Rogers.