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Vendetta : essays on honor and revenge / edited by Giovanna Summerfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revenge in literature.
- Vendetta.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (172 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, c2010.
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In spite of our clever and urban modern logic, our sharp common sense of destruction and reaction versus the more gratifying construction and proactive action, we still weave talionic plots that go beyond staged tragedies and past eras. Revenge continues to be popular in fiction as in non-fictional realms. As an audience, we enjoy films and books that hail the 'getting even' philosophy; even our most renowned children's stories are seeded in vindication and retribution (Hansel and Gretel, Red...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-62437-7
- 9786612624377
- 1-4438-2101-2
- OCLC:
- 659729963
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