Performativity of villainy and evil in Anglophone literature and media / Nizar Zouidi, editor.
Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras. This collection brings together scholars and artists with different institutional standings, cultu...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Contours of an Inherent Frame: The Underpinnings of Evil in Everyman, Bibhash Choudhury
- 2. If You Only Knew: Mephistopheles, Master Mirror, and the Experience of Evil, Dustin Lovett
- 3. Recognizable Patterns of Evil in Muslim Characters in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Jeffrey McCambridge
- 4. Desiring Empire: The Colonial Violence of Hijab Pornography, Ibtisam M. Abujad
- 5. Villains of the High Seas: Apostasy and Piracy in George Peeles The Battle of Alcazar, the Anonymously Authored Captain Thomas Stukeley, and William Dabornes A Christian Turned Turk, Jared S. Johnson
- 6. The Psychological Origins of Evil: The Trickster in Websters The Duchess of Malfi, Hend Hamed
- 7. A Show of Illusions: Performing Villainous Magic in Shakespeares The Tempest & Macbeth, Lisann Anders
- 8. The Demons Amorous Looking Glass: Reflections on the Villains Performative Self-Fashioning in Richard III by William Shakespeare, Nizar Zouidi
- 9. It is his hand : Villainy through letters in Shakespeares King Lear and Twelfth Night, Selima Lejri
- 10. Villainy as a facet of Nietzsches Wirkliche Historie prefigured in Shakespeares Richard II and concretized in Brechts Man Equals Man and The Measures Taken, Mariem Khmiri
- 11. Titubas Stairway: Representations of Tituba in Historical and Fictional Texts, Danielle Legros Georges
- 12. Colonial Idea and Work: The Evil in Marlows Heart of Darkness, Ahmet Suner
- 13. Caught in a Feudal Hang-Up: My Feudal Lord Mirroring a Villain and the Rebellion of a Pakistani Woman, Humaira Riaz
- 14. Good Versus Evil in Maxs Lucha Libre Adventures Series (2011-2020), Xavier Garza, Amy Cummins
- 15. Melville and Ford: Ahab and the Duke, John Price
- 16. Naught Beyond: A Phenomenology of Ahabs Madness Maddened, Bill Scalia
- 17. Seductive Female Villains and Rhetoricians in The Monk and Zofloya; or, The Moor, Hediye Ozkan
- 18. Dressed to Kill: Manipulating Perceived Social Class Through the Con of Clothing in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Fiction, Sabrina Paparella
- 19. Supernatural Doppelgangers: Manifestations of Villainy in Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights, Tammie Jenkins, 20. Debating the Nuclear Evil in U.S. Nuclear Fiction, Inna Sukhenko
- 21. The Evil Gaze of the State and the Post-Human Interrogator in 1984, Sadok Bouhlila
- 22. Wicked Speech and Evil Acts: Performativity as Discourse and Murder as Responsibility in Curtain Poirots Last Case (1975) and Speedy Death (1929), Federica Crescentini
- 23. Host of Otherness: The Trope of the Urban Space Habitat and the Concept of Evil in Contemporary Science Fiction Media, Mark Filipowich
- 24. Busting Binaries: Beyond Evil in Youth Literature, a Consideration of Emezis Pet, E.F. Schraeder
- 25. On the Performance of Villainy and Evil in Joker (2019), Kelvin Ke Jinde
- 26. Making Our Work of Art a Masterpiece : The Aesthetics of Evil in Alfred Hitchcocks Rope, Brennan Thomas
- 27. Textual Evil and Performative Precarity in Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho, Nicky Gardiner.