The Function of Evil across Disciplinary Contexts
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The Function of Evil across Disciplinary Contexts

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

The Function of Evil across Disciplinary Contexts

About this book

The Function of Evil Across Disciplinary Contexts explores answers to two important questions about the age-old theme of evil: is there any use in using the concept of evil in cultural, psychological, or other secular evaluations of the world and its productions? Most importantly, if there is, what might these functions be? By looking across several disciplines and analyzing evil as it is referenced across a broad spectrum of phenomena, this work demonstrates the varying ways that we interact with the ethical dilemma as academics, as citizens, and as people. The work draws from authors in different fields—including history, literary and film studies, philosophy, and psychology—and from around the world to provide an analysis of evil in such topics as deeply canonical as Beowulf and Shakespeare to subjects as culturally resonant as Stephen King, Captain America, or the War on Terror. By bringing together this otherwise disparate collection of scholarship, this collection reveals that discussions of evil across disciplines have always been questions of how cultures represent that which they find socially abhorrent. This work thus opens the conversation about evil outside of field-specific limitations, simultaneously demonstrating the assumptions that undergird the manner by which such a conversation proceeds.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2017
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9798216316435
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter One: Villainous Victimhood in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”
  5. Chapter Two: The Winter’s Tale
  6. Chapter Three: Guilt, Evil, and Hell in Doctor Faustus and Macbeth
  7. Chapter Four: Seasonal Villainy
  8. Chapter Five: The Name-of-the-Monster
  9. Chapter Six: The Communicative Force of Evil
  10. Chapter Seven: When Real Life Isn’t Evil Enough for Fiction
  11. Chapter Eight: Poison and Antidote
  12. Chapter Nine: Ghosts of the Old South
  13. Chapter Ten: Ace in the Hole and Its Public
  14. Chapter Eleven: The Evil Foreigner
  15. Chapter Twelve: Tribalism and the Use of Evil in Modern Politics
  16. Chapter Thirteen: A “Fiend Incarnate”
  17. Index
  18. About the Contributors

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