Exploring Evil
through the landscape of literature
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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, résumés and quotations bring as-yet-unread writings into the same line of vision as all the others. 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.
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Contents: Changing perceptions of evil - Literature: Middle Ages to the present day - Cinema - Cultural studies - Belief and Knowledge - Religion and ideologies.
Autoren-Porträt von Gloria Cigman
The Author: Gloria Cigman studied English Literature at the Universities of London and Oxford. She taught at the University of Warwick from 1968 to 1996, when she was appointed Honorary Senior Research Fellow, and now lives and works in Oxford and Paris. Her publications, international conference papers and public lectures, extending across the centuries from the Middle Ages to our own time, have been increasingly preoccupied with evil.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gloria Cigman
- 2002, Neuausgabe, 258 Seiten, 9 Abbildungen, Maße: 14,9 x 22,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 3906769585
- ISBN-13: 9783906769585
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.10.2002
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
«Écrit dans un style élégant et alerte, il est à la fois instructif pour les étudiants de la littérature anglaise et enrichissant pour le lecteur déjà averti et connaisseur.» (Danièle Frison, Études Anglaises)
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