Live Evil: Of Magic and Men / Edited by Sophia Vivienne Kottmayer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kottmayer, Sophia Vivienne, editor.

Series:

At the interface/probing the boundaries. Diversity and recognition.

At the Interface

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2011. Magic and the Supernatural have become de rigeur in popular culture to an extent that it is well-nigh inconceivable to imagine our quotidian lives without them. It is most probably the notion of danger and prohibition that incites our curiosity for these conceptions: they can be used for the Good, but out of control they trigger Evil. Oftentimes it is claimed that something is only magical until it can be explained in rational terms and that therefore we remain in a state of childish ignorance if believing in it. We are made to think that it is more conducive to focus on what happens in the here and now than to worry about the afterlife. From a perfectly logical point of view, though, this must be a misconception, for there is no such thing as purity. Consequently, rationality cannot exist by itself. And after all, do stark facts not mar the pleasure of the marvellous? This collection of academic papers seeks to analyse how over centuries mankind has cast supernatural experiences into narrative, into archetypal stories which account for a specific culture's heritage, all the while trying to conserve the marvel emerging from the inexplicable.

Contents:

""Front Cover ""; ""Inside Cover ""; ""Advisory Board ""; ""ISBN ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction: Kottmayer ""; ""Literary Movements and the Emerging Question: Antakyalioglu ""; ""Evil as Opposition to Self in American Literature and Contemporary Culture: Bourget and Smith ""; ""The Abyss of Freedom: Carew ""; ""Evil as Bondage to the Passions: Doncu ""; ""Unexpected Evils: Fitzsimmons and Lanphar ""; ""What is Tempting Anthony: Grotenhuis ""; ""Transgressing Gender Roles: Kottmayer ""; ""Malicious (Non)Space in Speculative Fiction: Kotwasinska ""; ""Evil Writers: Lima ""

""'Primum Non Nocere': Martin """"What We Know About Evil: Myers ""; ""Complexio Oppositorum: Rossman ""; ""The Evil Queens of The Faerie Queene: Seber ""; ""Toward a Communicative Conception of Evil: Sticker ""; ""The Hoodoo that You Do: Auge ""; ""Magic and the Power of the Condemned: Banks ""; ""Cinema and the Magical Erasure of the Woman: Chadder ""; ""Shifting the Focus: Farghaly ""; ""Schools for Wizards: Hersh ""; ""Ancestor Haunts: Kontturi ""; ""Faerie Communion: Sari ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-072-3

OCLC:

891381924

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848880726 DOI