Literature and Evil

Reducere. The Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles - throughout history the Prince of Darkness, the Western world's most powerful symbol of evil, has taken ...

This book provides the much-needed, no-nonsense guidance crucial for project managers - that is, the type of guidance that is missing from every ma...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, ponder...

Reducere. Beowulf is one of the most important works of Old English literature. This epic poem is believed to have been composed between 700 and 750, its aut...

Reducere. Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Bataille's earlier book, The Accursed Share, brought to anthropology and history; namely, an analysis ...

Reducere. Often referred to as the "Iliad" of medieval Japanese literature, "The Tale of the Heike" is the epic 14th-century story of the struggle between th...

Reducere. The adventures of Huon of Bordeaux have been perennial favorites since their first appearance in the thirteenth century as a French chanson de gest...

Violence and the Sacred is René Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout his...

Reducere. "Llamadme Ismael" es una de las primeras frases más recordadas en la historia de la literatura. Así comienza Moby Dick, la gran obra maestra de Her...

Reducere. Do you want to read Crime and Punishment? If so then keep reading...One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, Crime and Punishment catap...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Incubus and Succubus are the same creature. The incubus is its male shape, seducing women. The succubus or succuba visits men, causi...

Patricia Wildman, the daughter of the world-renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s and '40s, Dr. James Clarke "Doc" Wildman, is all alon...

Reducere. This collection of eighteen short tales, a novelette and a short novel takes the reader inside the dark imagination of Elizabeth Engstrom, author o...

Reducere. For many centuries philosophers have been discussing the problem of evil - one of the greatest problems of intellectual history. There are many fac...

Reducere. Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915-1985) was the last true Re...

Contributor(s): Author: William BuckIntroduction by: B. A. van NootenIllustrator: Shirley TriestFew works in world literature have inspired so vast...

One of the towering figures of world literature, Goethe has never held quite as prominent a place in the English-speaking world as he deserves. Thi...

Reducere. Get out your trusty broadsword and your masculinity, and return with us to the glory days of old-time Sword & Sorcery fiction. Sure, it's not "fine...

Reducere. This collection of eighteen short tales, a novelette and a short novel takes the reader inside the dark imagination of Elizabeth Engstrom, author o...

Reducere. Violence and the Sacred is Ren Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout hist...

Reducere. Father Brown explains: "You see, I murdered them all myself... I planned out each of the crimes very carefully. I thought out exactly how a thing l...

Reducere. The thirteenth and penultimate novel by Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations" chronicles the education of Pip, an orphan living in mid-nineteenth c...

The Malleus Maleficarum, first published in 1486-7, is the standard medieval text on witchcraft and it remained in print throughout the early moder...

Reducere. As the popularity of William Bennett's Book of Virtues attests, parents are turning more and more to children's literature to help instill values i...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Of all the issues in the philosophy of religion, the problem of reconciling belief in God with evil in the world arguably commands more attention t...

Reducere. The first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, Tree of Souls reveals a mythical tradition as rich and as fascinating as any in the world. Draw...

Examines JM Coetzee's writings about Elizabeth Costello, and the ways in which philosophers have responded to them. This book considers the relatio...

Evil - along with its incarnation in human form, the psychopath - remains underexamined in the psychological and psychoanalytic literature. Given c...

Focusing on the traits and types of guises usually associated with the ""bitch"" character in literature (evil stepmothers, village gossips, sinful...

Incorporates sources from philosophy, criminology, psychology, and history to argue that Dostoevsky's thinking about punishment was shaped not only...

The "century of trauma" produced writing at once saturated in political violence and complicated by the ethics of aesthetic representation. Stretch...

Reducere. In this study, Michael Hundley explores the diverse deities of ancient Near Eastern and biblical literature, from deified doors and diseases to the...