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More on The Last Dinosaur Book: Read Chapter 37, "Why Children Hate Dinosaurs, an excerpt from the book. Read Mitchell's Seven Theses on the Dinosaur a lecture handout on the main themes of The Last Dinosaur Book. An interview with W.J.T. Mitchell, reprinted from the University of Chicago Chronicle.
Other books by W. J. T. Mitchell published by the University of Chicago Press include:
Links to dinosaur resources on the web can be found at: Encyclopdia Britannica guide to dinosaur sites Links from the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre You may also like to read the Romantic Praxis interview of W.J.T. Mitchell. |
A Schematic History of Dinosaur Images |
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| | Period | American Revolution to the Civil War | Gilded Age to the Depression | World War II to end of Cold War | |
| | Dino-type | Mammoth to Victorian dinosaur | Classic or modern dinosaur | Postmodernism; dinosaur renaissance | |
| | Paradigm | Structure | Energy | Information | |
| | Prototype | Archetype | Engine | Program | |
| | Extinction scenario | Catastrophe | Entropy | Chaos | |
| | Historical schema | Creationism | Revolution | Evolution | |
| | Exemplar | Ark, frame, building | Train, automobile | Cyborg | |
| | Energy source | Water and wind | Fossil fuels | Nuclear energy | |
| | Stage of capitalism | Manufactory production | Mechanical production | Biocybernetic production | |
| | Exhibition site | Peale's museum Crystal Palace | Peabody AMNH Carnegie Smithsonian | Shopping mall Theme park | |
| | Sponsors | Jefferson Queen Victoria | Peabody Morgan Carnegie Sinclair |
McDonald's Ingen Corp. Universal Studios | |
| | Image makers | C. W. Peale W. Hawkins | Charles Knight R. Zallinger Winsor McCay Walt Disney | Gregory Paul John Gurche Steven Spielberg | |
| | Narrators | Jules Verne | Conan Doyle Edgar Rice Burroughs | Michael Crichton Italo Calvino | |
| | Narratives | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Gertie the Dinosaur Lost World King Kong Fantasia | Flintstones Godzilla Jurassic Park | |
| | Scientists | Cuvier Richard Owen T. H. Huxley | Cope and Marsh H. F. Osborn Barnum Brown R. C. Andrews | Robert Bakker Jack Horner Paul Sereno | |
