The Technologist in Classical Mythology and American Literature

TY - CHAP

T1 - The Technologist in Classical Mythology and American Literature

AU - Dalsgaard, Inger Hunnerup

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - Figures from classical mythology which can be identified broadly as “technologists” are transformed and live on in later works of literature. Mythic characters like Daedalus, Hephaistos and Prometheus have survived through the years by a process of adaptation. Their significance either changes as they reappear in later works of fiction, as is the case with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or, the New Prometheus (1818), or their characteristics inform later technologist figures as part of the critical fictional strategies of authors like Herman Melville or Thomas Pynchon.

AB - Figures from classical mythology which can be identified broadly as “technologists” are transformed and live on in later works of literature. Mythic characters like Daedalus, Hephaistos and Prometheus have survived through the years by a process of adaptation. Their significance either changes as they reappear in later works of fiction, as is the case with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or, the New Prometheus (1818), or their characteristics inform later technologist figures as part of the critical fictional strategies of authors like Herman Melville or Thomas Pynchon.

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-1-42983-739-2

T3 - Critical Insights

SP - 112

EP - 127

BT - Critical Insights: Technology and Humanity

A2 - Colatrella, Carol

PB - Salem Press

CY - Salem

ER -