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- Title
Relating Romantic Monsters to Dystopian Robots: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Carel Čapek's Rossum's Universal Robots.
- Authors
Gheran, Niculae
- Abstract
The following paper is a study case showing the way in which the debate and attitudes on creating artificial life were shaped by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and how this debate was inherited by dystopian author Carel Čapek in Rossum's Universal Robots. Paralels are made at the level of simbolic topography, classic scientific discourse, its relationship with gender constructs and the growing field of disability studies. Capek's thesis seems to be more complex than many have assumed. Rather than simply offering a radical critique of man's endeavour to create artificial life, the author seems to favour mimesis rather than the scientific attempt at improving nature itself.
- Subjects
SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; DEBATE; FRANKENSTEIN, Victor (Fictional character); ROBOTS; SCIENCE fiction
- Publication
Caietele Echinox, 2014, Vol 26, p251
- ISSN
1582-960X
- Publication type
Article