In Frankenstein S Wake
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In Frankenstein S Wake
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Author : Alison Bedford
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-12-28
In Frankenstein S Wake written by Alison Bedford and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Just over 200 years ago on a stormy night, a young woman conceived of what would become one of the most iconic images of science gone wrong, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature. For a long period, Mary Shelley languished in the shadow of her luminary husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, but was rescued from obscurity by the feminist scholars of the 1970s and 1980s. This book offers a new perspective on Shelley and on science fiction, arguing that she both established a new discursive space for moral thinking and laid the groundwork for the genre of science fiction. Adopting a contextual biographical approach and undertaking a close reading of the 1818 and 1831 editions of the text give readers insight into how this story synthesizes many of the concerns about new science prevalent in Shelley's time. Using Michel Foucault's concept of discourse, the present work argues that Shelley should be not only credited with the foundation of a genre but recognized as a figure who created a new cultural space for readers to explore their fears and negotiate the moral landscape of new science.
The Endurance Of Frankenstein
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Author : George Levine
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1982-05-19
The Endurance Of Frankenstein written by George Levine and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-05-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
MARY SHELLEY's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus grew out of a parlor game and a nightmare vision. The story of the book's origin is a famous one, first told in the introduction Mary Shelley wrote for the 1831 edition of the novel. The two Shelleys, Byron, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori (Byron's physician) spent a "wet, ungenial summer in the Swiss Alps." Byron suggested that "each write a ghost story." If one is to trust Mary Shelley's account (and James Rieger has shown the untrustworthiness of its chronology and particulars), only she and "poor Polidori" took the contest seriously. The two "illustrious poets," according to her, "annoyed by the platitude of prose, speedily relinquished their uncongenial task." Polidori, too, is made to seem careless, unable to handle his story of a "skull-headed lady." Though Mary Shelley is just as deprecating when she speaks of her own "tiresome unlucky ghost story," she also suggests that its sources went deeper. Her truant muse became active as soon as she fastened on the "idea" of "making only a transcript of the grim terrors of my waking dream": "'I have found it! What terrified me will terrify others."' The twelve essays in this collection attest to the endurance of Mary Shelley's "waking dream." Appropriately, though less romantically, this book also grew out of a playful conversation at a party. When several of the contributors to this book discovered that they were all closet aficionados of Mary Shelley's novel, they decided that a book might be written in which each contributor-contestant might try to account for the persistent hold that Frankenstein continues to exercise on the popular imagination. Within a few months, two films--Warhol's Frankenstein and Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein--and the Hall-Landau and Isherwood-Bachardy television versions of the novel appeared to remind us of our blunted purpose. These manifestations were an auspicious sign and resulted in the book Endurance of Frankenstein.
Frankenstein
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Author : Mary Shelley
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-04-16
Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-16 with Fiction categories.
Written by Mary Shelley (1797-1851), Frankenstein is the best-selling horror classic about an experiment that goes horribly wrong, and a monster who swears revenge on his creator. Swiss student Victor Frankenstein uncovers the secret to bringing life to what is lifeless, and in assembling body parts to create a monster, ultimately sets the stage for his own destruction and that of everything he loves when the monster is rejected by society. Penned as part of a competition between Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori to see who could write the best horror story, Frankenstein is resonant with themes of love, friendship, hubris, and fear. It presents the epic battle between man and monster, showing that man is not always capable of controlling that which he creates. Frankenstein was first published anonymously in London in 1818, reflecting English biases towards female authors, and Mary Shelley was not credited as the author of Frankenstein until the French edition was published in 1823. Frankenstein has had a lasting influence on literary tradition, opening the door to literary horror as a genre, and is widely recognized as the first work of science fiction. It has been adapted for film, television, and stage, as well as providing the basis for new works of literary fiction.
Victor Frankenstein The Monster And The Shadows Of Technology
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Author : Robert D. Romanyshyn
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-25
Victor Frankenstein The Monster And The Shadows Of Technology written by Robert D. Romanyshyn and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-25 with Psychology categories.
In Victor Frankenstein, the Monster and the Shadows of Technology: The Frankenstein Prophecies, 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? In the first six questions, Romanyshyn explores how Victor’s story and the Monster’s tale linger today as the dark side of Frankenstein’s quest to create a new species that would bless him as its creator. Victor and the Monster are present in the guises of climate crises, the genocides of our "god wars," the swelling worldwide population of refugees, the loss of place in digital space, the Western obsession with eternal youth and the eclipse of the biological body in genetic and computer technologies that are redefining what it means to be human. In the book’s final two questions, Romanyshyn uncovers some seeds of hope in Mary Shelley’s work and explores how the Monster’s tale reframes her story as a love story. This important book will be essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian theory, literature, philosophy and psychology, psychotherapists in practice and in training, and for all who are concerned with the political, social and cultural crises we face today.
The Strange Case Of The Alchemist S Daughter
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Author : Theodora Goss
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-06-20
The Strange Case Of The Alchemist S Daughter written by Theodora Goss and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-20 with Fiction categories.
Based on some of literature’s horror and science fiction classics, this “tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit and insight” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) debut is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders—and the bigger mystery of their own origins. Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents’ death, is curious about the secrets of her father’s mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father’s former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture…a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes. But her hunt leads her to Hyde’s daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Mary continues her search for the elusive Hyde, and soon befriends more women, all of whom have been created through terrifying experimentation: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherin Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein. When their investigations lead them to the discovery of a secret society of immoral and power-crazed scientists, the horrors of their past return. Now it is up to the monsters to finally triumph over the monstrous.
Frankenstein
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Author : Mary Shelley
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1992-03-10
Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-03-10 with Fiction categories.
No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations and outright plagiarisms which have followed in its ample wake. In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), Mary Shelley produced English Romanticism's finest prose fiction.
I Am Frankenstein
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Author : C. Dean Andersson
language : en
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Release Date : 2018-07-16
I Am Frankenstein written by C. Dean Andersson and has been published by Crossroad Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-16 with Fiction categories.
I am Frankenstein. I awaken Nightmares. My truth is Terror made Flesh. Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley told part of my story. Now hear the rest! I am the Creature of Frankenstein. The Horror of my story is more terrifying than his. I know how it feels to be stripped of flesh. So, I did to Frankenstein what he did to me, cursed him with Immortality! I am Katiasa. I traveled back in time to help Frankenstein create Life from Death. It was fun, mostly, until his Creature made me a monster, too. I am Tzigane. I am not a monster. I am a Witch, a Vampire, the Mate of Dracula. Frankenstein and his Creature? Katiasa? Three interesting monsters. I spent time with them. Why? Spend time with them yourself. Read their book! I am C. Dean Andersson. Warning: I AM FRANKENSTEIN’s editor wanted the book destroyed. Trouble is, Monsters don't stay dead. They come back. Sometimes, they even try to tell jokes. And now, I AM FRANKENSTEIN has returned. Take its hand. It has things to show you. Have a nice scream.
Frankenstein
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Author : Mary Shelley
language : en
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date : 1992-03-10
Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley and has been published by Everyman's Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-03-10 with Fiction categories.
No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations and outright plagiarisms which have followed in its ample wake. In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), Mary Shelley produced English Romanticism's finest prose fiction.
Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus Large Print Edition
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Author : Mary Shelley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04-22
Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus Large Print Edition written by Mary Shelley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-22 with Fiction categories.
Frankenstein is the most famous, notorious, imitated, copied, revised, recreated book ever written in the modern era, yet it was written by a mere 18-year-old runaway girl. Mary Shelley says the Frankenstein story came to her in a waking dream. She sat around with friends by a log fire in the villa of Lord Byron. Each undertook to think about and write a ghost story. Unable to think of one and unable to sleep, Mary became possessed by her imagination as she beheld the grim terrors of her "waking dream," her ghost story. There have been numerous books, movies, comics books and videos based to the Frankenstein story. However, most deviate far from the original. The most common explanation for the creation of the Frankenstein monster was it was assembled from the body parts of dead humans and an electrical shock brings it back to life. In the original book, Victor Frankenstein is a scientist who is experimenting with life forms when he finally finds a way to create life. The monster he creates has no name at all. However, in most of the movies, film stills, clips, photos, book covers, mags, illustrations, cartoons, toys, videos and comic books based on the original, Frankenstein is the name of the monster himself. The word Frankenstein has become part of the English language. It can be predicted that more Frankenstein books and movies will be coming out. In the movie version, the scientist has an assistant named Igor. Igor makes a mistake, putting a diseased brain in the body of the monster rather than a healthy brain. It is this mistake that causes the monster to go off on a murderous rampage.
Frankenstein Original Unabridged Version
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Author : Mary Shelley
language : en
Publisher: Golden Valley Press
Release Date : 2019-12-23
Frankenstein Original Unabridged Version written by Mary Shelley and has been published by Golden Valley Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-23 with categories.
"The novel 'Frankenstein' by Marry Shelley is a very famous gothic novel and has sold many copies till date. It is a compelling book that has managed to grab the attention of audiences since day-one. According to some, the monster of Frankenstein is symbolic of the industrialization that created havoc and destruction in Europe in the nineteenth century. However, according to others, it stands for the fears in the writer's mind to changing times and new events. The novel is often classified as gothic since it dwells on mystery and the supernatural world. The setting is that of dark, sublime and exotic, making the reader uneasy. And, the 'double' feature only adds to the mystery and the sensation for the reader. According to some critics in the past and present, this is the first extant scientific novel written in English language. The writing style of the author is truly remarkable and is the main highlight of this book. The plot of the book has been well thought of and it has all the essentials that make a book a classic. It has the right dose of love, suspense, friendship and, quintessential to this book, human psychology. The book provides the reader with an understanding on life in a totally new and refreshing manner."