The Real and the Reflected : Heroes and Villains in Existent and Imagined Worlds /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Franks, Rachel, Meindl, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2012]
Temas:
Heroes in literature.
Villains in literature.
Heroes in mass media.
Villains in mass media.
Héros dans la littérature.
Méchants dans la littérature.
Héros dans les médias.
Méchants dans les médias.
Heroes in literature
Heroes in mass media
Villains in literature
Villains in mass media
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • The Real and the Reflected: Heroes and Villains in Existent and Imagined Worlds
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I: The Real and the Reflected: Acknowledging Good and Evil
  • Good and Evil in Ancient Persian Festivals: An Analytical Psychological Approach
  • PART II: The Real and the Reflected: Heroes and Villains in 1880
  • Messala: Roman Villain via Boss Tweed and Billy the Kid
  • The Noble Villain: Ned Kelly, the Cinema and the Jerilderie Letter
  • PART II: The Real: Education and Law Reform
  • Framing and Attitude Appropriate Psychosocial Sex Education in America
  • Is There a Perfect Environment to Allow a Villain and a Villainess to Thrive?
  • PART IV: The Real (and The Reel): The Villains and Victims of Conflict
  • Villains and Victims: A Complex Relationship
  • War and Punishment
  • Behind The Hurt Locker: Target Acquired?
  • PART V: The Reflected: Constructing Gender and Generating Sympathy
  • Crossing Legs, Gender and Genre (Catherine Tramell: A Portrait of a Woman Writer as a Postmodern Femme Fatale)
  • Positive Villains: Tarantino's Ability to Construct Negative Characters the Audience can Sympathise with on the Basis of Kill Bill
  • The Sympathetic Hero is an Inside Man
  • PART VI: The Reflected: Villains across Genres and across Time
  • Physiognomic Depictions of Heroes and Villains
  • Handsome, Rich, Dangerous: The Attraction of Gothic Villains in Nineteenth-Century Literature
  • Villains but no Criminals?! Selected Heroes and Villains in Fantasy Fiction for Children and Young Adults
  • The Joycean Hero as a Treacherous Villain in J.M. Coetzee's Summertime
  • PART VII: The Reflected: Heroes and Villains in Crime Fiction
  • Visualising Villains: Crafting Criminals in Australian Crime Fiction
  • 'Cossacks, whose Brutality was Fiendish': Russians as Villains in English-Language Fiction in the 1880s and 1890s
  • Villainy and Physiognomy: Identifying the Dangerous Foreigner in Sherlock Holmes
  • Philip Marlowe: The (In)Different Threshold
  • The Adorable Mr Ripley: Crime and Morality in Patricia Highsmith's Suspense Fiction

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