What is the problem with revenge? : : exploring the conundrum / / edited by Andrew Baker, Seline E M Doran and Mary Ann O'Grady.

• Superior document: Probing the boundaries
• TeilnehmendeR: Baker, Andrew,; E. M. Doran, Seline,; O'Grady, Mary Ann,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, United Kingdom : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Probing the boundaries.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Andrew Baker , Selina E. M. Doran and Mary Ann O’Grady -- Decontextualisation, Fantasy, Desubjectification: The Dreamscape of Revenge / Steve Larocco -- The Integrality of Self-Knowledge to a Revengeful State of Mind / Parnika Goel -- What is so Bad about Revenge? / Raphaelle Thery -- ‘Revenge’ versus ‘Retribution’ in Islam: Cultural Origins and Conflicting Paradigms / Cynthia Finlayson -- Borderlands, Cross-Cultural Exchange and Revenge in the Medieval and Early Modern Balkans: Roots of Present Regional Conflicts or Merely a Historical Case-Study? / Klemen Pust -- Post-Conflict Revenge: Intersubjectivity as a Lens for Understanding both Collective and Individual Behaviour / Sheila C. Bibb -- Mediating Revenge: Utu and Māori War Captives / Hazel Petrie -- Matricide and the Origins of Social Order in the Athenian Polis and a South Indian Fishing Village / Charles W. Nuckolls -- Thinking the Unthinkable: Examining this Phenomenon Called Filicide / Mary Ann O’Grady -- ‘Once You Decide to Strike, It is Better to Kill too Many than not Enough’: The Oslo and Virginia Tech Shootings as ‘Performed Revenge’ / Selina E. M. Doran -- Vengeance between Friends: Aristotle and Film / Ben Mulvey -- Satiric Revenge and the Baggage of Anger: The Case of Juvenal / Catherine Keane -- Revenge and Mercy in Latin Epic Poetry from Vergil to the Middle Ages / Henry Bayerle -- Revenge and Madness in Kill Bill / Megan Saunders -- We Get Bloody: Revenge Ethos in ‘Sons of Anarchy’ and Outlaw Biker Culture / Andrew Baker.