Evolution -- the Mad Poet Does Science
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A Critical History Oxford: Oxford University Press pp.
For hundreds of years, scholars, writers, and mental health professionals have debated, discussed, endorsed, rebuked, or reveled in, associations between madness and creativity, specifically between madness and poets. Is the relationship correlational, or causational?
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Does poetry cause madness, or vice versa? Are our efforts to understand past accounts of poets and their madness anachronistic or otherwise inadequate? In what ways have our glorified mythologies of mad poets, or our ever-evolving cultural and scientific understandings and perceptions of 'madness' and 'creativity' influenced the ongoing debate?
In an attempt to make sense of the relationship between madness and poetry, they have explicated poems, combed biographies, conducted studies, and applied various and sundry psychological and psychiatric theory, all with fascinating analyses which result in claims that are far from definitive and occasionally oversimplify, or under-represent, aspects of the discussion. James Whitehead's recent monograph, Madness and the Romantic Poet: Whitehead's text does not offer its readers definitive answers to any of the above questions about creativity and madness; rather, Whitehead seeks to deconstruct some previous mistaken notions, complicate others, and provide more accurate representation to certain elements of the debate which may have been neglected, as he notes: Further, he notes that the work is not 'fundamentally hostile' to psychological research on the relationship between creativity and mental illness: One example of the way in which Whitehead elucidates previously under-represented aspects of the debate occurs in the first two chapters.
Mad Evolutionists and Missing Links: Evolution in Cinema
In Chapter One, Whitehead carefully identifies classical references of various forms and perceptions of madness, tracing their evolution and transference into the Romantic period. Chapter Two explores the status and perception of madness and mad poets in eighteenth-century culture, setting the stage for a rich discussion of the development of those concepts in the Romantic era. Chapters Three through Five are likely to be of special interest to readers, as those are the chapters which analyze concepts of madness and creativity in the context of the Romantic era itself. Chapter Three, 'Alienists', explores the history of medicine and the evolution of medical thinking during the Romantic era, as Whitehead notes: Whitehead's discussion of the development of 'moral management', which 'played down the [ Several early films adopted the caricature of the ape-like human or the human-like ape for comedic purposes.
The idea of the missing link spurred numerous searches in the hopes of providing evidence supporting evolution, especially those fossils connecting humans to the apes. Such was the case for this film that starred comedian Syd Chaplin who was the elder half-brother of Charlie Chaplin.
Beast of Borneo Not every early film treated evolutionary theory as a joke.
This perception led to several films in which an unhinged scientist character goes to extreme lengths to prove that evolution is true. The perceived threat of evolutionary thought to public morality was mirrored in films like Beast of Borneo. The Russian scientist Dr.
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Interestingly, for a film that punishes a scientist for his evolutionary beliefs, the film goes to great lengths to show how human-like the orangutans are. Monster on the Campus The coelacanth was thought to have gone extinct 66 million of years ago in the late-Cretaceous period, so the discovery of a living coelacanth in caused an international sensation.
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Coelacanths are related to the lungfish and, thus, they look like a transitionary species between fish and amphibians. For many people the coelacanth seemed to be a creature frozen in time.
Donald Blake this is a fortunate discovery that proves his evolutionary theories. In it she plays anthropologist Dr.
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