...Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos ; tlie materials must, in the first place, be afforded :...cannot bring into being the substance itself. In all mattere of discovery and invention, even of those that appertain to the imagination, we are My imagination,...

...they make the elephant stand upon a torto1se. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos ; the materials...reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg. Invention confists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding...

...they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials...story of Columbus and his egg. Invention consists on the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject; and in the power of moulding and fashioning...

...linked to something that went before. . . . Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials...but cannot bring into being the substance itself. If she cannot think of a story, she uses her failure, defensively, as a chance to observe that no one...

...linked to something that went before . . . Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials...but cannot bring into being the substance itself. (F.8) For Mary Shelley, the roots of a Romantic mythology lay not in intense, metaphysical claims about...

...Space: Cultural Criticism/Cultural Production Invention . . . does not consist in creating out of the void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the...but cannot bring into being the substance itself. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: or, the Modem Prometheus, x. Almost fifteen years have passed since I addressed...

...they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials...continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg.7 Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power...

...Shelley, in discussing cosmogony, asserts that: "invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials...but cannot bring into being the substance itself" (x). In "humbly" insisting that creation does not come out of nothing, Shelley here suggests that her...

...they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials...but cannot bring into being the substance itself" (Frankenstein, 226). One recalls Jakobson's patient for whom original words and autonomous subjectivity...

...manuscripts."30 "Invention," the author of Frankenstein "humbly admit[s]" in the Introduction, "does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials...in the first place, be afforded: it can give form. . . . [I]t consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject and in ... moulding...