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Informationen zum Autor Malcah Effron is lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Brian Johnson is assistant professor of humanities at Cuyohoga Community College Klappentext The book offers an interdisciplinary approach to a subject that has largely been the province of religious studies and philosophy. Tackling the function of evil across social contexts rather than seeking a definition of evil, this collection explores the use of the term "evil" in multiple eras, genres, and disciplines. Zusammenfassung The book offers an interdisciplinary approach to a subject that has largely been the province of religious studies and philosophy. Tackling the function of evil across social contexts rather than seeking a definition of evil! this collection explores the use of the term "evil" in multiple eras! genres! and disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Brian Johnson and Malcah Effron1. Villainous Victimhood in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" Chu-chueh Cheng2. The Winter's Tale: Art and Redemption from Evil Olivia Coulomb3. Guilt, Evil, and Hell in Doctor Faustus and Macbeth Jamey Hecht4. Seasonal Villainy: Radical Evil, Relativity and Redemptive Relationships Charity Fowler5. The Name-of-the-Monster: Interpellation and the Construction of Evil Jim Casey6. The Communicative Force of Evil: The Case of Stephen King Jessica Folio7. When Real Life Isn't Evil Enough for Fiction: French Postwar Literature and the Relationship between Evil and Sexuality Marian Duval8. Poison and Antidote: Evil and the Hero-Villain Binary in Deon Meyer's Post-Apartheid Crime Thriller, Devil's Peak Sam Naidu and Karlien van der Wielen9. Ghosts of the Old South: The Evils of Slavery and the Haunted House in Royal Street Brian Johnson10. Ace in the Hole and Its Public: Evil and the News Spectacle Julie Michot11. The Evil Foreigner: Marvel Villains and the American National Identity from World War II to the War on Terror Joanna Nowotny and Bettina Jossen12. Tribalism and the Use of Evil in Modern Politics Riven Barton13. A "Fiend Incarnate": Sin, Science, and the Problem of Evil in the New American Nation Jeffrey Mullins...
