Dreams and Nightmares

Science and Technology in Myth and Fiction

Mordecai Roshwald (Autor)

Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

227 Seiten

2008
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-3694-1 (ISBN)

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Studies the treatment of science and technology, demonstrating the importance of science to human civilization as evidenced in literature.

This book studies the treatment of science and technology from ancient myths to current works, demonstrating the importance of science to human civilization as evidenced in literature. Works studied include the Bible, Greek mythology, tales from the Middle Ages (including those about the Golem and Dr. Faustus), Gulliver's Travels, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and works by Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, and Aldous Huxley, among others.

Mordecai Roshwald is professor emeritus of social science and humanities at the University of Minnesota. He has held visiting appointments at universities in Israel, United Kingdom, Canada and Taiwan and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is also the author of the noted dystopian science fiction novel Level 7 (1959).

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Bible

2. Greek Mythology

3. The Middle Ages

4. Age of Reason

5. Science and Human Nature

6. The Machine Prophet

7. Evolution: Natural and Designed

8. Mind Control

9. The Menace of the Machine

10. The Threat of Paradise

11. The Suicide of Civilization

Conclusion

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.10.2008
Reihe/Serie	Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7864-3694-8 / 0786436948
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-3694-1 / 9780786436941
Zustand	Neuware