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This thing of darkness : perspectives on evil and human wickedness /
Written across the disciplines of art history, literature, philosophy, sociology, and theology, the ten essays comprising the collection all insist on multidimensional definitions of evil. Taking its title from a moment in Shakespeare's Tempest when Prospero acknowledges his responsibility for...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2004.
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| Colección: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Editorial foreword / Rob Fisher
- Preface / Richard Paul Hamilton
- 1. Twentieth-century vampire literature: intimations of evil and power / Katri Lehtinen
- 2. Evil encounters with "others" in Tayeb Salih and Toni Morrison: the case of Mustafa Saeed and Sula Peace / Salwa Ghaly
- 3. A visual theology of evil and redemption? Watt's Eve trilogy and Burne-Jones's Altarpiece of the nativity / Kathy M. Bullough
- 4. Or image of that horror?: imagining radical evil / David H. Fisher
- 5. Hier ist kein Warum?: evil at the limits of understanding / Richard Paul Hamilton
- 6. Condemned to artifice and prevented from being a pirate: how prisoners convicted of terribel crimes recognize themselves in discourse / Diana Medlicott
- 7. The apostasy of the baptized: Christians and the Holocaust / Deirdre Burke
- 8. The exorcist: personification of human wickedness or upholder of religious duties? / Sandeep Singh Chohan
- 9. Wandering the heath: Niebuhr and the need for realism / Rob Fisher
- 10. Prohibition and transgression: Georges Betaille and the possibility of affirming evil / Jones Irwin.