Literature And Evil

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141965970

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Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille Pdf

'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of eight authors and their work, including Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal and the writings of Sade, Kafka and Sartre, explore subjects such as violence, eroticism, childhood, myth and transgression, in a work of rich allusion and powerful argument.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401206808

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Villains and Villainy by Anonim Pdf

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 : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Good and evil in literature
ISBN : OCLC:1249175047

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Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille Pdf

Author : Corina-Mihaela Beleaua
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793609410

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Locating Values in Literature by Corina-Mihaela Beleaua Pdf

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.

Author : Damian Catani
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441185075

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Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought by Damian Catani Pdf

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.

Author : Ron Riekki,Jeffrey A. Sartain
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476668710

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The Many Lives of The Evil Dead by Ron Riekki,Jeffrey A. Sartain Pdf

One of the top-grossing independent films of all time, The Evil Dead (1981) sparked a worldwide cult following, resulting in sequels, remakes, musicals, comic books, conventions, video games and a television series. Examining the legacy of one of the all-time great horror films, this collection of new essays covers the franchise from a range of perspectives. Topics include The Evil Dead as punk rock cinema, the Deadites' (demon-possessed undead) place in the American zombie tradition, the powers and limitations of Deadites, evil as affect, and the films' satire of neoliberal individualism.

Author : Nizar Zouidi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030760557

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Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media by Nizar Zouidi Pdf

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 : Damian Catani
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441185563

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Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought by Damian Catani Pdf

An up-to-date, comprehensive and interdisciplinary interpretationof notions of evil in French literature and thought.

Author : Peter Brian Barry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317594772

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The Fiction of Evil by Peter Brian Barry Pdf

What makes someone an evil person? How are evil people different from merely bad people? Do evil people really exist? Can we make sense of evil people if we mythologize them? Do evil people take pleasure in the suffering of others? Can evil people be redeemed? Peter Brian Barry answers these questions by examining a wide range of works from renowned authors, including works of literature by Kazuo Ishiguro, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Oscar Wilde alongside classic works of philosophy by Nietzsche and Aristotle. By considering great texts from literature and philosophy, Barry examines whether evil is merely a fiction. The Fiction of Evil explores how the study of literature can contribute to the study of metaphysics and ethics and it is essential reading for those studying the concept of evil or philosophy of literature at undergraduate level.

Author : Karen J. Renner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317966746

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The 'Evil Child' in Literature, Film and Popular Culture by Karen J. Renner Pdf

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 : Chad Meister,Paul K. Moser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107055384

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The Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil by Chad Meister,Paul K. Moser Pdf

This Companion offers a state-of-the-art contribution by providing critical analyses of and creative insights on the problem of evil.

Author : Dara Waldron
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443865586

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Cinema and Evil by Dara Waldron Pdf

Malevolence (and its causes) has been central to film since its inception; the birth of film coinciding with a fascination with crime, death, murder, horror, etc. Films which address the problem of evil, however, are less frequent and fewer in quantity; especially films which respond to a body of thought – philosophical or theological – which has deliberated on the topic of evil over the centuries. Cinema and Evil: Moral Responsibility and the “Dangerous” Film addresses these films. It explores the legacy of evil from Manicheanism to Arendt, assessing the alternative definitions offered by philosophers, theologians and writers per se, on its problematic status. It then considers how the films of filmmakers such as Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michael Haneke, Gus Van Sant, and Lynne Ramsay have responded to the problem of evil in their films. In case by case studies, filmmakers’ response to “evil” events, whether those such as the Holocaust or Columbine, in which evil is used as a descriptor for human behaviour, is explored. The book refers to these as “dangerous” films, tasking us with the need to consider evil as a problem which is also our responsibility. It argues that these filmmakers have been at the forefront of ethical deliberation on evil.

Author : Luke Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198712480

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Evil by Luke Russell Pdf

When asked to describe wartime atrocities, acts of terrorism, and serial killers, many of us reach for the word evil. But what does it mean to say that an action or a person is evil? Some philosophers have claimed that there is no such thing as evil, and that thinking in terms of evil is simplistic and dangerous. In response to this sceptical challenge, Luke Russell shows that concept of evil has a legitimate place within contemporary secular moral thought. In this book he addresses questions concerning the nature of evil action, such as whether evil actions must be incomprehensible, whether evil actions can be banal, and whether there is a psychological hallmark that distinguishes evils from other wrongs. Russell also explores issues regarding the nature of evil persons, including whether every evil person is an evildoer, whether every evil person is irredeemable, and whether a person could be evil merely in virtue of having evil feelings. The concept of evil is extreme, and is easily misused. Nonetheless, Russell suggests that it has an important role to play when it comes to evaluating and explaining the worst kind of wrongdoing.

Author : Gloria Cigman
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3906769585

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Exploring Evil by Gloria Cigman Pdf

This book takes as its terrain the changing perceptions of evil across centuries of English Literature. Starting with the models of conflict and malevolence in the Book of Genesis, its paths are the themes of ambition, desire, survival, belief and knowledge, from the Middle Ages to the present day. As if looking through both ends of a telescope, it moves forward in time, propelled by what has been left behind and by our knowledge of what will follow. Because the cinema is so vibrant an archive of shifting images of ourselves, selected films are viewed alongside the narrative fiction, drama and poetry of each chapter. Throughout the book, resumes and quotations bring as-yet-unread writings into the same line of vision as all the others. <I>Exploring Evil confronts the diversity of evils reflected in literary depictions of human behaviour and finds two constant elements: the abuse of free will and a denial of the humanity of others. The author argues that, however much its forms and objectives may change, the supremacy of evil in the life of the imagination remains unassailable."

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300171250

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On Evil by Terry Eagleton Pdf

In this work, Eagleton investigates the condition of those 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?