Roslynn D Haynes
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 375479 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Roslynn D Haynes |
| NOMBRES | Roslynn D |
| APELLIDO | Haynes |
| FIRMA | HAYNES R D |
| AFILIACIONES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6962-6349 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Australian Desert
This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history of Australia. Beginning with the prehistory of the continent, it engages with geology, the Aboriginal Dreaming narratives of origin, the arrival of the first Australians, Aboriginal culture of the Dreaming, anthropology, colonial history and the cult of the inland explorer-hero, and integration of the …
Transforming Myths
A Clash of Cultures
Whatever happened to the ‘mad, bad’ scientist? Overturning the stereotype
The cluster of myths relating to the pursuit of knowledge has perpetuated the archetype of the alchemist/scientist as sinister, dangerous, possibly mad and threatening to society’s values. Shelley’s Frankenstein provided imagery and a vocabulary universally invoked in relation to scientific discoveries and technological innovation. The reasons for the longevity of this seemingly antiquated, semiotic imagery are discussed. In the twenty-first cent…
From Alchemy to Artificial Intelligence
Throughout Western culture, the master narrative of the scientist is of an evil and dangerous man. This simplification underlying contemporary mythology of knowledge arises from fear of the power and change that science entails, leaving many people feeling confused and disempowered. It reemerges in the media, most often under the name of “Frankenstein, ” with any new discovery that appears to threaten social equilibrium. This is not a new phenome…
Vacation Stories
It was in 1905, the year before he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with his archrival in neurohistology, Camillo Golgi, that Santiago Ramón y Cajal finally risked publishing these provocative tales. We learn from Laura Otis's excellent introduction that he had actually written these "anti-religious, anti-establishment" stories (p. vii) some twenty years earlier, and they are therefore grounded in the cutting-edge science of the …
Romanticism and Environmentalism
Although few people today have heard of them, the nine novelspublished by Marie Bjelke-Petersen between 1917 and 1937 were.immensely popular in their time. Sales, including translations, totalled250,000 and in 1935 Bjelke-Petersen was awarded the King's Jubilee Medal forLiterature
Astronomy and the Dreaming
Dying of Landscape
The six, relatively neglected I Australian novels of Elliot Lovegood GrantWatson, written between 1914 and 1935, present an intriguing andcomplex reworking of their author's engagement with the WesternAustralian desert. Equipped with a broad literary background, a close knowledgeof psychoanalysis and Jungian ideas, a deep interest in comparative religion andthe prior experience of travel in the Middle East, as well as a training in biologyand ant…
From Faust to Strangelove
They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove the scientists of film and fiction, cultural archetypes that reflected ancient fears of tampering with the unknown or unleashing the little-understood powers of nature. This book offers a…
Frankenstein
1993 saw the appearance of yet another 'Frankenstein' film, following hot on the heels of the David Wicks production in 1993.
Dreaming the stars The astronomy of the Australian Aborigines
Although the celestial observations made by the Aborigines were precise, the significance attached to them was conceptual rather than perceptual. It could not be derived from observation but only from knowledge gained by initiation into tribal values. The legends which embodied the astronomical knowledge had a threefold pragmatic role in tribal culture: they functioned as a predictive calendar for terrestrial events; they were associated with sto…
H. G. Wells in Australia
Now that H.G. Wells has passed through the almost obligatory phases of being acclaimed as a prophet, vilified as a superficial optimist and then, chiefly through the efforts of his son Anthony West, awarded the medal of existential Angst for his deep pessimism, it is possible to reassess him as one of the great twentieth-century thinkers. His brave attempt to take all knowledge as his province and his zeal in fostering inter-disciplinary communic…
The Scientist in Literature
Recent surveys of public attitudes to science and scientists have indicated that scientists are seen in highly stereotyped forms, most of them unfavourable. Before scientists can alter their public image, it is necessary for them to understand how it has arisen. One very important way is through the literary tradition – the manner in which scientists have been presented as fictional characters from the medieval alchemists to the computer experts …
Art as Reflection in Jessica Anderson’s *Tirra Lirra by the River
Jessica Anderson's title is, at first sight, uninviting. Even the most ardent Tennyson reader must have secretly felt that Sir Lancelot could have found something more profound or manly to sing than 'Tirra lirra', and to single out this line for a title seems only to emphasize its deficiencies. However the title in fact points to one of the most important themes of the novelâ one which, I believe, has been overlooked by criticsâ namely the author…
H. G. Wells' Contribution to Western Thought
H. G. Wells
Before Wells embarked on the study of science he was already well acquainted with such diverse social settings as the unprofitable china-shop in Bromley, Up Park, the gracious home where his mother was housekeeper, two drapery shops and a chemist’s shop, where he served aborted apprenticeships, and Midhurst Grammar School, where he spent a year as a student teacher. All these scenes were later to feature in the novels of his middle period, descri…
H. G. Wells in Australia
Now that H.G. Wells has passed through the almost obligatory phases of being acclaimed as a prophet, vilified as a superficial optimist and then, chiefly through the efforts of his son Anthony West, awarded the medal of existential Angst for his deep pessimism, it is possible to reassess him as one of the great twentieth-century thinkers. His brave attempt to take all knowledge as his province and his zeal in fostering inter-disciplinary communic…
H. G. Wells
Before Wells embarked on the study of science he was already well acquainted with such diverse social settings as the unprofitable china-shop in Bromley, Up Park, the gracious home where his mother was housekeeper, two drapery shops and a chemist’s shop, where he served aborted apprenticeships, and Midhurst Grammar School, where he spent a year as a student teacher. All these scenes were later to feature in the novels of his middle period, descri…
H. G. Wells' Contribution to Western Thought
Art as Reflection in Jessica Anderson’s *Tirra Lirra by the River
Jessica Anderson's title is, at first sight, uninviting. Even the most ardent Tennyson reader must have secretly felt that Sir Lancelot could have found something more profound or manly to sing than 'Tirra lirra', and to single out this line for a title seems only to emphasize its deficiencies. However the title in fact points to one of the most important themes of the novelâ one which, I believe, has been overlooked by criticsâ namely the author…
The Scientist in Literature
Recent surveys of public attitudes to science and scientists have indicated that scientists are seen in highly stereotyped forms, most of them unfavourable. Before scientists can alter their public image, it is necessary for them to understand how it has arisen. One very important way is through the literary tradition – the manner in which scientists have been presented as fictional characters from the medieval alchemists to the computer experts …
H. G. Wells in Australia
Now that H.G. Wells has passed through the almost obligatory phases of being acclaimed as a prophet, vilified as a superficial optimist and then, chiefly through the efforts of his son Anthony West, awarded the medal of existential Angst for his deep pessimism, it is possible to reassess him as one of the great twentieth-century thinkers. His brave attempt to take all knowledge as his province and his zeal in fostering inter-disciplinary communic…
Frankenstein
1993 saw the appearance of yet another 'Frankenstein' film, following hot on the heels of the David Wicks production in 1993.
Dreaming the stars The astronomy of the Australian Aborigines
Although the celestial observations made by the Aborigines were precise, the significance attached to them was conceptual rather than perceptual. It could not be derived from observation but only from knowledge gained by initiation into tribal values. The legends which embodied the astronomical knowledge had a threefold pragmatic role in tribal culture: they functioned as a predictive calendar for terrestrial events; they were associated with sto…
From Faust to Strangelove
They were mad, of course. Or evil. Or godless, amoral, arrogant, impersonal, and inhuman. At best, they were well intentioned but blind to the dangers of forces they barely controlled. They were Faust and Frankenstein, Jekyll and Moreau, Caligari and Strangelove the scientists of film and fiction, cultural archetypes that reflected ancient fears of tampering with the unknown or unleashing the little-understood powers of nature. This book offers a…
Dying of Landscape
The six, relatively neglected I Australian novels of Elliot Lovegood GrantWatson, written between 1914 and 1935, present an intriguing andcomplex reworking of their author's engagement with the WesternAustralian desert. Equipped with a broad literary background, a close knowledgeof psychoanalysis and Jungian ideas, a deep interest in comparative religion andthe prior experience of travel in the Middle East, as well as a training in biologyand ant…
Astronomy and the Dreaming
Romanticism and Environmentalism
Although few people today have heard of them, the nine novelspublished by Marie Bjelke-Petersen between 1917 and 1937 were.immensely popular in their time. Sales, including translations, totalled250,000 and in 1935 Bjelke-Petersen was awarded the King's Jubilee Medal forLiterature
Vacation Stories
It was in 1905, the year before he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with his archrival in neurohistology, Camillo Golgi, that Santiago Ramón y Cajal finally risked publishing these provocative tales. We learn from Laura Otis's excellent introduction that he had actually written these "anti-religious, anti-establishment" stories (p. vii) some twenty years earlier, and they are therefore grounded in the cutting-edge science of the …
From Alchemy to Artificial Intelligence
Throughout Western culture, the master narrative of the scientist is of an evil and dangerous man. This simplification underlying contemporary mythology of knowledge arises from fear of the power and change that science entails, leaving many people feeling confused and disempowered. It reemerges in the media, most often under the name of “Frankenstein, ” with any new discovery that appears to threaten social equilibrium. This is not a new phenome…
Whatever happened to the ‘mad, bad’ scientist? Overturning the stereotype
The cluster of myths relating to the pursuit of knowledge has perpetuated the archetype of the alchemist/scientist as sinister, dangerous, possibly mad and threatening to society’s values. Shelley’s Frankenstein provided imagery and a vocabulary universally invoked in relation to scientific discoveries and technological innovation. The reasons for the longevity of this seemingly antiquated, semiotic imagery are discussed. In the twenty-first cent…
The Australian Desert
This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history of Australia. Beginning with the prehistory of the continent, it engages with geology, the Aboriginal Dreaming narratives of origin, the arrival of the first Australians, Aboriginal culture of the Dreaming, anthropology, colonial history and the cult of the inland explorer-hero, and integration of the …
Transforming Myths
A Clash of Cultures
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