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Villains: Global Perspectives on Villains and Villainy Today

By Burcu Genc (editor) , Corinna Lenhardt (editor)

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Publisher
Inter-Disciplinary Press
Year
2011
ISBN
97818488800528
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2188527 bytes)
Pages
\265
Time added
2022-01-15 15:49:34

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Table of Contents Introduction • Burcu Genc & Corinna Lenhardt Part I: Renaissance Villainy An Archetypal Figure of the ‘Villainous Jew’ in English Renaissance Literature • Ivona Misterova The Strategies of Narrative Representation of Villains in English Renaissance Rogue Literature • Kateryna Vasylyna Damnation of a Hero or Villain: Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus • Seyda Inceoglu Part II: Doubles, Criminals and Nicholas Dyer A Complicated Matter of Villainy: Mr Hyde in R. L. Stevenson’s ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ • Ömer ÖĞÜNÇ What is a Villain? Thackeray’s Play with the Reader’s Perception in Catherine and Barry Lyndon • Ellen Redling The Double in Poe and Dostoevsky: The Descent into the Subconscious • Ekaterina Yasko Steerpike and Evasive Villainy in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Novels • Arrate Hidalgo Sánchez Enter Peter Ackroyd’s Nicholas Dyer: Architect, Devil Worshipper and Murderer • Roxanne Barbara Doerr Part III: Literary Villainy with an Ethnic Twist Washington’s Troops Skinned Dead Indians from the Waist Down and Made Leggings from the Skins: Reiterating Villainy in Native American Gothic Fiction • Corinna Lenhardt Representations of Villainy in Yemeni Fiction • Fawaz Jazim A Spanish Incarnation of Cain: Miguel de Unamuno’s Abel Sánchez • Santiago Pérez Isasi Part IV: Gendered Villainy The Changing Face of the Femme Fatale: Is She Really Villainous? • Burcu Genc The Portrayal of the Male Villain in the Broadcast Televisual Text Hollyoaks • Selina E. M. Doran Monstrous Action-Men and Jealous Princesses: Defining the Villain in Gendered Narratives • Dikmen Yakalı-Çamoğlu Part V: Villains of Our Youth The Triumvirate of Evil: Major Villains of Don Rosa’s Donald Duck Comics • Katja Kontturi I Want More! Insatiable Villains in Children’s Literature and Young Adults’ Fiction • Karin Kokorski Part VI: Villainy On Stage and On-Screen ‘Gainst Nature Still: Reading Macbeth’s Murder of Duncan • Timo Uotinen Precious Villain ... Honourable Murderer: The Betrayer as Scapegoat in Shakespeare • Shala Alert The Sow that Repeatedly Devours Her Piglets: The Villain on the Nigerian Stage • Tiziana Morosetti You don’t Make Up for Your Sins in Church: Dilemmas of Moral Development in Scorsese’s Mean Streets • David Sousa Part VII: Futuristic Villains and Cosmic Killers The Mad Scientist as a Villain: H. G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau • Oya Bayıltmış I Am the Man in the Dark Room: The Puppetmaster from Cosmic Adversary to Cosmic Villain • Luke Seaber The Evolutionary Villain: Alfred Bester as an Oppressed Victim and a Righteous Villain • Mikko Poutanen The Cyborg Villain: Mechanical Hybridity and Existential Fear • Jori De Coster Part VIII: Villainous States Sexual Villainy in the Holocaust • Beverley Chalmers The State Villainy in Orwell’s 1984 • Cumhur Yılmaz Madran

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