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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"H.G. Wells."”.
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Fabricating humans: From H.G. Wells' Morlock to Karel Čapek's Robot via Zamyatin's OneState & E.M. Forster's Machine
… through the early science fiction of H. G. Wells, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, E. M. Forster's “The Machine Stops” and Karel Čapek's R.U.R.. It demonstrates how the “human” operates in a state of flux, in parallel with its environment which both defines and is defined by the “human.” I argue that …
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Environmental empowerment: Gender, nature, agency, and violence in 21st-century ecofiction
… nature and agency, which I contrast with H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau, the 1896 novella which inspired Moreno-Garcia’s text. The Broken Earth trilogy brings the age-old association of women and nature into question and reflects current cultural fears and hopes in a fictional …
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Renderings of the Abyss: some changing nineteenth-century literary perceptions of the animal / human divide.
… and The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells. During the course of this study I consider various ideas applied by the authors about the abyssal limits and what they consist of. These include considerations on reason, society, morality and spirituality, all ideas used in various different …
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The Soviet pilgrimage : American writers in Russia, 1922-1947.
… Hellman, Theodore Dreiser, Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Waldo Frank, Josephine Herbst, Abraham Cahan, and many others. This study examines the works of four of these travelers—Claude McKay, E.E. Cummings, Lillian Hellman, and John Steinbeck—each of whom travelled …
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Making Meaning Together: Information, Rumor, and Propaganda in British Literature of the First World War
Through an examination of fiction by H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, and John Buchan, this dissertation examines information as a category as it exists under conditions of modernity, and how the contours of and changes in definitions and understandings of modern information become more visible, and are …
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Signifying nothing: intelligence and intellectual disability in modern British literature and culture, 1919 – 1969
… works by H.D., Rebecca West, Olive Moore, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Peter Nichols, I show that scientific and political concerns about intelligence and intellectual disability animated literary approaches to the relationships among subject, society, and state …
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Rocket states - an analysis of US missile culture
… defence; it deploys analysis of the works of H.G Wells, Jonathan Schell, Nikola Tesla, Ronald Reagan and Elaine Scarry to discuss the transmission of rays, and of rumours.
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Propaganda and Poetry during the Great War.
<p>During the Great War, poetry played a more significant role in the war effort than articles and pamphlets. A campaign of extraordinary language filled with abstract and spiritualized words and phrases concealed the realities of the War. Archaic language and lofty phrases hid the horrible truth …