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

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 c...

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Superior document:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 76
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 76.
Physical Description:1 online resource (218 p.)
Notes:Papers from the 1st Global Villains and Villainy Conference, organised in September 2009 by Inter-Disciplinary.Net, at Mansfield College, Oxford.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.