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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781788003321

Titolo

Villains and villainy [[electronic resource] ] : embodiments of evil in literature, popular culture and media / / edited by Anna Fahraeus and Dikmen Yakah Çamoğlu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Editions Rodopi, 2011

ISBN

1-283-25052-7

9786613250520

94-012-0680-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Collana

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; ; v. 76

Altri autori (Persone)

FahraeusAnna

ÇamoğluDikmen Yakah

Disciplina

809/.93353

Soggetti

Villains in mass media

Villains in popular culture

Villains in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from the 1st Global Villains and Villainy Conference, organised in September 2009 by Inter-Disciplinary.Net, at Mansfield College, Oxford.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Examining infamous represetations of villainy -- pt. 2. Villainy victorious -- pt. 3. Villains in the community -- pt. 4. Exemplifying exceptional perspectives : villainy as a necessary end.

Sommario/riassunto

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.