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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Nizar ZouidiPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 0.726kg ISBN: 9783030760571ISBN 10: 303076057 Pages: 510 Publication Date: 26 July 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsSection I: The (dis)embodiment of evil in medieval and Renaissance moments 1 Contours of an Inherent Frame: The Underpinnings of Evil in Everyman Bibhash Choudhury 2 If You Only Knew: Mephistopheles, Master Mirror, and the Experience of Evil Dustin Lovett 3 Recognizable Patterns of Evil in Muslim Characters in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature Jeffrey McCambridge 4 Desiring Empire: The Colonial Violence of “Hijab Pornography” Ibtisam M. Abujad 5 Villains of the High Seas: Apostasy and Piracy in George Peele’s The Battle of Alcazar, the Anonymously Authored Captain Thomas Stukeley, and William Daborne’s A Christian Turned Turk Jared S. Johnson Section II: Performing moral deformity in the Shakespearean moment 6 The Psychological Origins of Evil: The Trickster in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi Hend Hamed 7 A Show of Illusions: Performing Villainous Magic in Shakespeare’s The Tempest & Macbeth Lisann Anders 8 The Demon’s Amorous Looking Glass: Reflections on the Villain’s Performative Self-Fashioning in Richard III by William Shakespeare Nizar Zouidi 9 “It is his hand”: Villainy through letters in Shakespeare’s King Lear and Twelfth Night Sélima Lejri 10 Villainy as a facet of Nietzsche’s Wirkliche Historie prefigured in Shakespeare’s Richard II and concretized in Brecht’s Man Equals Man and The Measures Taken Mariem Khmiri Section III: Language, race and the dehumanization of the evil other in (post)colonial moments 11 Tituba’s Stairway: Representations of Tituba in Historical and Fictional Texts Danielle Legros Georges 12 Colonial ‘Idea’ and ‘Work’: The Evil in Marlow’s Heart of Darkness Ahmet Süner 13 Caught in a Feudal Hang-Up: My Feudal Lord Mirroring a Villain and the Rebellion of a Pakistani Woman Humaira Riaz 14 Good Versus Evil in Max’s Lucha Libre Adventures Series (2011-2020) by Xavier Garza Amy Cummins Section IV: Obsessed avengers, revenants and vampires in the British and American Romantic moments 15 Melville and Ford: Ahab and the Duke John Price 16 Naught Beyond: A Phenomenology of Ahab’s “Madness Maddened” Bill Scalia 17 Seductive Female Villains and Rhetoricians in The Monk and Zofloya; or, The Moor Hediye Özkan 18 Dressed to Kill: Manipulating Perceived Social Class Through the Con of Clothing in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Fiction Sabrina Paparella 19 Supernatural Doppelgangers: Manifestations of Villainy in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights Tammie Jenkins Section V: A world of dark secrets: Espionage, silent wars, and the threat of nuclear annihilation in the post-World War moments 20 Debating ‘the Nuclear Evil’ in U.S. Nuclear Fiction Inna Sukhenko 21 The Evil Gaze of the State and the Post-Human Interrogator in 1984 Sadok Bouhlila 22 Wicked Speech and Evil Acts: Performativity as Discourse and Murder as Responsibility in Curtain – Poirot’s Last Case (1975) and Speedy Death (1929) Federica Crescentini 23 Host of Otherness: The Trope of the Urban Space Habitat and the Concept of Evil in Contemporary Science Fiction Media Mark Filipowich Section VI: Good criticism of evil art: Studying evil in revisionist academic and cultural moments 24 Busting Binaries: Beyond Evil in Youth Literature, a Consideration of Emezi’s Pet E. F. Schraeder 25 On the Performance of Villainy and Evil in Joker (2019) Kelvin Ke Jinde 26 “Making Our Work of Art a Masterpiece”: The Aesthetics of Evil in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope Brennan Thomas 27 Textual Evil and Performative Precarity in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho Nicky GardinerReviewsAuthor InformationNizar Zouidi is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Hail, Saudi Arabia, and at the University of Gafsa, Tunisia. Zouidi is the author of a number of book chapters and journal articles about the representations of evil in early modern drama. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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