Fictions and Metafictions of Evil

Fictions and Metafictions of Evil applies critical, comparative and interdisciplinary approaches. It covers all genres of literature, children's literature and hypertext. Apart from spanning English, (African) American, South African, Polish and Norwegian literary texts, its scope extends to music, philosophy, stylistics and the visual arts.

This volume contains sixteen essays of literary criticism, comparative literature and interdisciplinary studies by Polish, German, Welsh, French and American scholars. It features a voyage through the sea of evil from the beginning of time to the present, from the creation of the world (Hughes) to contemporary terrorism (Wajdi Mouawad). It examines all genres of literature, from Shakespeare to Hopkins and Roethke, to Dickens and Orzeszkowa, Faulkner and McCarthy, Baldwin and Burdekin. The Gesamtkunst which evil has inspired in this volume includes the Victorian Protestant novel and children's literature, hypertext (M. Joyce, Moulthrop) and metafiction (Coetzee, Munch) as well as music, philosophy, stylistics (Tolkien) and the visual arts (Tintoretto, Munch).

Autorentext

Grazyna M. T. Branny, affiliated to the Pedagogical University in Kraków, Poland, is a Conrad, Faulkner, Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich scholar. J. Gill Holland, Professor Emeritus of Davidson College, USA, has published on English, Chinese and Norwegian literatures and art.

Inhalt
Contents: Anna Pietrzykowska-Motyka: «Read Thine Own Evil»: Exploring the Faces of Evil in King Lear Monika Mazurek: Awful Disclosures, or, Evil in Disguise: The Convent in the Victorian Protestant Novel Jan Rybicki: «To What Serves Mortal Beauty» in «The Windhover» Przemysaw Michalski: The Problem of Violence in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke Jutta Göller/Karl Heinz Göller (): How Evil Came into the World: Ted Hughes's «Apple Tragedy»: A Satirical Antithesis to the Biblical Myth of Creation Aleksandra Budrewicz-Beratan: Social Evil in Eliza Orzeszkowa and Charles Dickens Laurence Davies: Evil Communications in Burdekin and Baldwin Grayna M. T. Branny: The Unspoken and the Unspeakable: Evil and Intertextuality in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark Marek Pawlicki: Reading Evil, Writing Evil in J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and The Master of Petersburg Dominik Becher: The Disappearance of Evil?: The Anti-Villain as Identification Figure for Young Readers Wojciech Majka: Subjectivity and Beyond: Ethics and the Question of Good and Evil Magorzata Pawowska: Diabolus in Musica J. Gill Holland: Fictions and Metafictions of Evil: The Case of Edvard Munch, Artist and Author Joanna Podhorodecka: Reviving «Dead» Metaphors: Images of Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Emilia Branny-Jankowska: *Demons of Technology: The Computer, the Society and Evil in Michael Joyce's afternoon and Stuart Moulthrop's Hegirascope Anne Luyat: Terra Infidel: Tintoretto's The Annunciation in Wajdi Mouawad's Ciels*.