The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon - Hardcover

Mitchell, W. J. T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226532046 ISBN 13: 9780226532042

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1998

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Book by Mitchell W J T

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This text addresses the question of how dinosaurs moved from natural extinction to pop culture resurrection, exploring the animal's place in our lives and the source of its popular appeal. In tracing the cultural family tree of the dinosaur there is discovered a creature of striking flexibility, linked to dragons and mammoths, skyscrapers and steam engines, cowboys and Indians. Here the dinosaur becomes a cultural symbol whose plurality of meaning and often contradictory nature is emblematic of modern society itself. As a scientific entity, the dinosaur endured a near-eclipse for over a century, but as an image it is enjoying its widest circulation. The text suggests it endures because it is uniquely malleable, a figure of both innovation and obsolescence, massive power and pathetic failure - the totem animal of modernity.

Biografía del autor:

W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago and editor of Critical Inquiry.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0226532046
• ISBN 13: 9780226532042
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336