Editing Homunculus (section)

===Contemporary literature===
The homunculus legend, ''Frankenstein'' and ''Faust'' have continued to influence works in the twentieth and twenty-first century.  The theme has been used not only in [[fantasy literature]], but also to illuminate social topics. For instance, the British children's writers [[Mary Norton (author)|Mary Norton]] and [[Rumer Godden]] used homunculus motifs in their work, expressing various post-war anxieties about refugees, persecution of minorities in war, and the adaptation of these minorities to a "big" world.<ref>{{cite journal|hdl=1959.14/76602  |title=Post-war place and displacement in Rumer Godden's "The Doll's house" and Mary Norton's "The Borrowers"|last=Dubosarsky |first=Ursula|journal=CREArTA |volume=6 |issue=Special Issue |pages=103–107|year=2006 }}</ref> [[W. Somerset Maugham]]'s 1908 novel [[The Magician (Maugham novel)|''The Magician'']] utilises the concept of the homunculus as an important plot element. [[David H. Keller]]'s short story "A Twentieth-Century Homunculus" (1930) describes the creation of homunculi on an industrial scale by a pair of [[misogynists]]. Likewise, [[Sven Delblanc]]'s ''The Homunculus: A Magic Tale'' (1965) addresses alleged [[misogyny]] and the Cold War industrial-military complexes of the Soviet Union and [[NATO]]. In German children's author [[Cornelia Funke]]'s book, ''[[Dragon Rider (novel)|Dragon Rider]]'', the protagonists meet and are aided by a homunculus created by an alchemist. The homunculus, and [[alchemy]] broadly, is seen as more of a [[Magic in fiction|magical]] phenomenon in the story, however, rather than necessarily having a symbolic meaning.