What is the problem with revenge? : exploring the conundrum / edited by Andrew Baker, Seline E M Doran and Mary Ann O'Grady.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Andrew, editor.

E. M. Doran, Seline, editor.

O'Grady, Mary Ann, editor.

Series:

Probing the boundaries.

Probing the boundaries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revenge--Social aspects.

Revenge.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2013]

Summary:

This multidisciplinary book furthers the debate on the much-contested concept of revenge. It offers a combination of conceptual arguments, and historical, fictional and socio-cultural examples of revenge.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Andrew Baker , Selina E. M. Doran and Mary Ann O’Grady

Decontextualisation, Fantasy, Desubjectification: The Dreamscape of Revenge / Steve Larocco

The Integrality of Self-Knowledge to a Revengeful State of Mind / Parnika Goel

What is so Bad about Revenge? / Raphaelle Thery

‘Revenge’ versus ‘Retribution’ in Islam: Cultural Origins and Conflicting Paradigms / Cynthia Finlayson

Borderlands, Cross-Cultural Exchange and Revenge in the Medieval and Early Modern Balkans: Roots of Present Regional Conflicts or Merely a Historical Case-Study? / Klemen Pust

Post-Conflict Revenge: Intersubjectivity as a Lens for Understanding both Collective and Individual Behaviour / Sheila C. Bibb

Mediating Revenge: Utu and Māori War Captives / Hazel Petrie

Matricide and the Origins of Social Order in the Athenian Polis and a South Indian Fishing Village / Charles W. Nuckolls

Thinking the Unthinkable: Examining this Phenomenon Called Filicide / Mary Ann O’Grady

‘Once You Decide to Strike, It is Better to Kill too Many than not Enough’: The Oslo and Virginia Tech Shootings as ‘Performed Revenge’ / Selina E. M. Doran

Vengeance between Friends: Aristotle and Film / Ben Mulvey

Satiric Revenge and the Baggage of Anger: The Case of Juvenal / Catherine Keane

Revenge and Mercy in Latin Epic Poetry from Vergil to the Middle Ages / Henry Bayerle

Revenge and Madness in Kill Bill / Megan Saunders

We Get Bloody: Revenge Ethos in ‘Sons of Anarchy’ and Outlaw Biker Culture / Andrew Baker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-164-9

OCLC:

1096223235

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848881648 DOI