"The divorce of faith from reason" from modernism to post-modernism: H.G.Wells'fiction and Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier (1998)
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1 juin 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.5759
- isbn: 9782869062221
- eisbn: 9782869064867
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Legends and stories Novels Stories Tube wells Water wells Novels Novellas (Short novels) Fiction--Philosophy Metafiction Stories Theological belief Religious beliefCiter ce document
Simon Dubois Boucheraud, « "The divorce of faith from reason" from modernism to post-modernism: H.G.Wells'fiction and Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier (1998) », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.5759
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Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) is known as the pioneer of science fiction and his view of man's cosmic destiny has been considerably influential in twentieth-century fiction. Wells did not consider his fiction as works of art but as the objects of a struggle partaking of an ideological enterprise. He was a socialist but not a Marxist as has often been suggested. Therefore, he had faith not in class struggle but in the mere scientific education, which he thought, could give man an absolute p...