Literature And Evil
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| Author | : Georges Bataille |
| Publisher | : Marion Boyars Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
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;Literature is not innocent, ; Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. ;It is guilty and should admit itself so. ; The word, the flesh, and the devil are explored by this extraordinary intellect in the work of eight outstanding authors: Emily Bronte, Baudelaire, Blake, Michelet, Kafka, Proust, Genet and De Sade. Born in France in 1897, Georges Bataillewas a radical philosopher, novelist and critic whose writings continue to exert a vital influence on today's literature and thought.
| Author | : Georges Bataille |
| Publisher | : Marion Boyars |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : |
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Essays discuss the work of Emily Bronte, Baudelaire, William Blake, Proust, Kafka, Genet, and de Sade, and examine the depiction of evil
| Author | : Georges Bataille |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Good and evil in literature |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Terry Eagleton |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2010-04-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0300162960 |
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DIV In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil, no mere medieval artifact, is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world. In a book that ranges from St. Augustine to alcoholism, Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann, Shakespeare to the Holocaust, Eagleton investigates the frightful plight of those doomed souls who apparently destroy for no reason. In the process, he poses a set of intriguing questions. Is evil really a kind of nothingness? Why should it appear so glamorous and seductive? Why does goodness seem so boring? Is it really possible for human beings to delight in destruction for no reason at all? /div
| Author | : Damian Catani |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2013-02-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1441185070 |
Download Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this original, interdisciplinary approach to evil in French literature, Damian Catani links literary depictions of evil with cultural events to chart a history of the concept in some of the most important texts in modern literature. Beginning with Balzac and Baudelaire, Catani covers the restoration and the Second Empire before interpreting how Catholic stereotypes of the 'evil feminine' and new scientific theories impacted the work of Lautréamont and Zola. Moving into the twentieth century, evil is then explored in terms of the Self, power, knowledge and politics through readings of Proust, Céline, Sartre and Foucault. By seamlessly bringing together aesthetic, philosophical, historical and ideological concerns to read key French writers from the 18th to the 21st century, this study argues why a broader treatment of literary evils is vital to understanding our contemporary moral and political climate.
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| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9401206805 |
Download Villains and Villainy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This collection of essays explores the representations, incarnations and manifestations of evil when it is embodied in a particular villain or in an evil presence. All the essays contribute to showing how omnipresent yet vastly under-studied the phenomena of the villain and evil are. Together they confirm the importance of the continued study of villains and villainy in order to understand the premises behind the representation of evil, its internal localized logic, its historical contingency, and its specific conditions.
| Author | : Karen J. Renner |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2013-10-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317966740 |
Download The 'Evil Child' in Literature, Film and Popular Culture Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collection of essays from a global range of scholars examines a fascinating array of evil children and the cultural work that they perform, drawing upon sociohistorical, cinematic, and psychological approaches. The chapters explore a wide range of characters including Tom Riddle in the Harry Potter series, the possessed Regan in William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, the monstrous Ben in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child, the hostile fetuses of Rosemary’s Baby and Alien, and even the tiny terrors featured in the reality television series Supernanny. Contributors also analyse various themes and issues within film, literature and popular culture including ethics, representations of evil and critiques of society. This book was originally published as two special issues of Literature Interpretation Theory.
| Author | : Nizar Zouidi |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 534 |
| Release | : 2021-07-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3030760553 |
Download Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras. This collection brings together scholars and artists with different institutional standings, cultural backgrounds and (inter)disciplinary interests with the aim of energizing the ongoing discussion of the generic and thematic issues related to the representation of villainy and evil in literature and media. The volume covers medieval literature to contemporary literature and also examines important aspects of evil in literature such as social and political identity, the gothic and systemic evil practices. In addition to literature, the book considers examples of villainy in film, TV and media, revealing that performance, performative control and maneuverability are the common characteristics of villains across the different literary and filmic genres and eras studied in the volume.
| Author | : Robyn Muir |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 163 |
| Release | : 2022-04-25 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9004499504 |
Download Evil Women: Representations within Literature, Culture and Film Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Evil women, who are they really? What are their motives, and how are they remembered and constructed within our culture? Evil Women: Representations within Literature, Culture and Film seeks to interrogate the nature and construction of evil women in the above fields. Through literature, poetry, history, ballads, film and real-life culture, scholars explore how the evil woman has been constructed and, in some cases, erased; the punishment and treatment of evil women; and the way evil women have been portrayed on and off screen through character, narrative and behind the camera development.
| Author | : Corina-Mihaela Beleaua |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2020-10-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1793609411 |
Download Locating Values in Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Locating Values in Literature: Goodness, Beauty, and Truth discusses the relevance of literature in the current educational process, stating that regardless of the level of study, literature provides students with the necessary skills to address real-world situations. Corina-Mihaela Beleaua posits that a curriculum that includes literature has a multitude of benefits for the mental and ethical development of students, defending the relevance of the three ancient values of goodness, beauty, and truth. Beleaua argues that literature is a significant tool for endorsing these transcendentals and actualizing their positive potentials as humanistic and moral values, acting as a symbolic manifestation of moral values that will impact readers outside of the scope of the literature itself. Scholars of literature, philosophy, and education will find this book particularly useful.
