Promoting and producing evil /
The essays in this volume provide rich fodder for reflection on topics that are of urgent interest to all thinking people. Each one suggests new ways to contemplate our own role(s) in the production and promotion of evil. The authors encourage the reader to be challenged, outraged, and disturbed by...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2010.
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| Series: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 63. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=315612 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; PART I Linguistic Frameworks for Evil; Little White Lies: 9/11 and the Recasting of Evil through Metaphor; The Phenomenology of Domestic Violence: An Insider's Look; Side Effects of the Linguistic Construction of Others' Wickedness; PART II Literary Frameworks for Evil; Falling Under an Evil Influence; The Banality of Violence: From Kafka's The Castle to Auster's The Music of Chance; Sacred and (Sub)Human Pain: Witnessing Bodies in Early Modern Hagiography and Contemporary Spectatorship of Atrocity.