Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy
Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy

Author: Gregory Maertz

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-09-21

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 3838215915

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Gregory Maertz has written extensively on Romantic and Modern literature, art, and ideas. In these nine related essays, he investigates the expression of Romanticism in literature, philosophy, and cultural politics from the Renaissance to Modernism. The comparative essays in Part One examine the affinity between the religious logic of Sir Thomas Browne and Søren Kierkegaard; Tolstoy’s enduring attraction to Schopenhauer’s thought; Rilke’s debts to the sculptor Rodin; the identification of an early novel by William Godwin as the chief precursor text to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; and the corresponding literary projects of Osip Mandelstam, Rilke, and David Jones. In Part Two the essays are clustered around the literary activity of writers and philosophers associated with radicalism in Britain and transcendentalism in America: a reconsideration of the life of William Godwin; the central role played by English radicals in the transmission of German literature; Godwin’s innovations in travel fiction; and the crystallization of authorial identity around the influence of Goethe in the work of women writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot.

The Bonhoeffer Legacy
The Bonhoeffer Legacy

Author: ATF Press

Publisher: ATF Press

Published: 2018-12-31

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1925872726

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This collection of essays looks at a range of topics: public theology, why Chinese intlectuals are intersted in engaging with Bonhoeffer, Bonhoeffers concept of the logos and public theology and Bohoeffer's approach to social analyis. Contibutors: Barry Harvey, Robert Vosloo, Jason Lam, Joel Banman and Dustin Benac.

Prometheus
Prometheus

Author: Carol Dougherty

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780415324052

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Carol Dougherty traces a history of the Prometheus myth from its origins in Ancient Greece to its resurgence in the works of the Romantic era and beyond. Prometheus defied Zeus to steal fire for mankind and his story continues to make an appearance in art and literature to the present day.

The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost
The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost

Author: Jonathon Shears

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1351882430

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The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, Shears devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets, contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton within a range of historical, aesthetic, and theoretical contexts and discourses. By tackling the vexed issue of whether Paradise Lost by its nature makes available and encourages alternate readings or whether misreadings are imposed on the poem from without, Shears argues that the Romantic inclination towards fragmentation and a polysemous aesthetic leads to disrupted readings of Paradise Lost that obscure the theme, or warp the 'grain', of the poem. Shears concludes by examining the ways in which the legacy of Romantic misreading continues to shape critical responses to Milton's epic.

The Legacy of Arniston House
The Legacy of Arniston House

Author: T. L. Huchu

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2024-11-12

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1250883105

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A dangerous cult craves a dark power. The Legacy of Arniston House is the spellbinding fourth instalment of the USA Today bestselling Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu Ropa Moyo is a wannabe magician, can speak to the dead, and has officially given up being an intern. Leaving Scottish magic behind, she now works for the English Sorcerer Royal. But just as she adjusts to working for the English, an old enemy reveals a devastating secret about her Gran, and Ropa’s world falls apart. Outraged, she rushes home, but finds her grandmother dead – murdered – with no killer in sight. What’s more, she’s the prime suspect. In her quest to find the true murderer, Ropa becomes caught in the dark tendrils of a cult, hell-bent on resurrecting an ancient power. Ropa must use her wits, her magic, and call in all favors to stop the ritual – and clear her name. Edinburgh Nights series: The Library of the Dead Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle The Legacy of Arniston House At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The legacy of John Polidori
The legacy of John Polidori

Author: Sam George

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-10-01

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1526166372

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John Polidori’s novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps ‘the most influential horror story of all time’ (Frayling). Polidori’s story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori’s Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori’s vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. The essays emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.

Frankenstein's Legacy: Four Conversations about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and the Modern World
Frankenstein's Legacy: Four Conversations about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and the Modern World

Author: Brad King

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 1387333801

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Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus was first published two hundred years ago on March 11, 1818. Shelley's novel warns of the possible sacrifices for knowledge and hints toward the costs to man and society, how new knowledge can redefine human existence and experience. These themes of Frankenstein have been reinterpreted and applied to debates regarding atomic weapons, nuclear energy, cloning, bioengineering, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI). This collection brings together CMU scholars in the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences to consider the relevance of Shelley's novel today, particularly how it helps frame the responsibility of investigators to consider the consequences of artificial intelligence and a technologically-augmented human society.

Grass
Grass

Author: Joe C. Truett

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-11-03

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0520944526

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Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original habitat: grasslands. In a richly drawn, anecdotally driven narrative, Joe C. Truett, a grasslands ecologist who writes with a flair for language, traces the evolutionary, historical, and cultural forces that have reshaped North American rangelands over the past two centuries. He introduces an intriguing cast of characters—wildlife and grasslands biologists, archaeologists, ranchers, and petroleum geologists—to illuminate a wide range of related topics: our love affair with turf and how it manifests in lawns and sports, the ecological and economic dimensions of ranching, the glory of cowboy culture, grasslands and restoration ecology, and more. His book ultimately provides the background against which we can envision a new paradigm for restoring rangeland ecosystems—and a new paradigm for envisioning a more sustainable future.

Lucifer's Legacy
Lucifer's Legacy

Author: F. E. Close

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0198503806

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Lucifer's Legacy describes the possible outcomes of this experiment, and assesses their implications for our understanding of the universe."--Jacket.