The Function of Evil across Disciplinary Contexts (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Effron, Malcah; Johnson, Brian

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216316435
• Artikelnr.: 74399491

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Brian Johnson and Malcah Effron 1. Villainous Victimhood in
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" Chu-chueh Cheng 2. The Winter's
Tale: Art and Redemption from Evil Olivia Coulomb 3. Guilt, Evil, and Hell
in Doctor Faustus and Macbeth Jamey Hecht 4. Seasonal Villainy: Radical
Evil, Relativity and Redemptive Relationships Charity Fowler 5. The
Name-of-the-Monster: Interpellation and the Construction of Evil Jim Casey
6. The Communicative Force of Evil: The Case of Stephen King Jessica Folio
7. When Real Life Isn't Evil Enough for Fiction: French Postwar Literature
and the Relationship between Evil and Sexuality Marian Duval 8. 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 Wielen 9. Ghosts
of the Old South: The Evils of Slavery and the Haunted House in Royal
Street Brian Johnson 10. Ace in the Hole and Its Public: Evil and the News
Spectacle Julie Michot 11. The Evil Foreigner: Marvel Villains and the
American National Identity from World War II to the War on Terror Joanna
Nowotny and Bettina Jossen 12. Tribalism and the Use of Evil in Modern
Politics Riven Barton 13. A "Fiend Incarnate": Sin, Science, and the
Problem of Evil in the New American Nation Jeffrey Mullins