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In this inventive collection of poems, McCutcheon engages in
sophisticated literary play and deploys the Surrealist practices of
juxtaposition. Moving from eroticism to the macabre and from
transformative quotation to the individual idiom, Shape Your Eyes
by Shutting Them explores intertextuality in poetry by challenging
the cultural tradition of seeing quotation as derivative.
Charles E. Robinson, Professor Emeritus of English at The
University of Delaware, definitively transformed study of the
novel Frankenstein with his foundational
volume The Frankenstein Notebooks and, in nineteenth century
studies more broadly, brought heightened attention to the nuances
of writing and editing. Frankenstein and STEAM consolidates the
generative legacy of his later work on the novel's broad relation
to topics in science, technology, engineering, arts, and
mathematics (STEAM). Seven chapters written by leading and emerging
scholars pay homage to Robinson's later perspectives of the novel
and a concluding postscript contains remembrances by his colleagues
and students. This volume not only makes explicit the question of
what it means to be human, a question Robinson invited students and
colleagues to examine throughout his career, but it also
illustrates the depth of the field and diversity of those who have
been inspired by Robinson's work. Frankenstein and STEAM offers
direction for continuing scholarship on the intersections of
literature, science, and technology. Published by the University of
Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the
study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe
advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues
that it is Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively
reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English. It was then
Marshall McLuhan's media theory and its adaptations in Canadian
popular culture that popularized, even globalized, a
Frankensteinian sense of technology. The Medium Is the Monster
shows how we cannot talk about technology - that human-made
monstrosity - today without conjuring Frankenstein, thanks in large
part to its Canadian adaptations by pop culture icons such as David
Cronenberg, William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, and Deadmau5. In the
unexpected connections illustrated by The Medium Is the Monster,
McCutcheon brings a fresh approach to studying adaptations, popular
culture, and technology.
Charles E. Robinson, Professor Emeritus of English at The
University of Delaware, definitively transformed study of the
novel Frankenstein with his foundational
volume The Frankenstein Notebooks and, in nineteenth century
studies more broadly, brought heightened attention to the nuances
of writing and editing. Frankenstein and STEAM consolidates the
generative legacy of his later work on the novel's broad relation
to topics in science, technology, engineering, arts, and
mathematics (STEAM). Seven chapters written by leading and emerging
scholars pay homage to Robinson's later perspectives of the novel
and a concluding postscript contains remembrances by his colleagues
and students. This volume not only makes explicit the question of
what it means to be human, a question Robinson invited students and
colleagues to examine throughout his career, but it also
illustrates the depth of the field and diversity of those who have
been inspired by Robinson's work. Frankenstein and STEAM offers
direction for continuing scholarship on the intersections of
literature, science, and technology. Published by the University of
Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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