1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author : Nightboat Books
Release : 2021-09-14
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 104/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Villainy by : Nightboat Books
Download or read book Villainy written by Nightboat Books. This book was released on 2021-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stras Acimovic
Release : 2018
Genre : Fantasy games
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 530/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Scum and Villainy by : Stras Acimovic
Download or read book Scum and Villainy written by Stras Acimovic. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Patterson
Release : 2021-04-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 283/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Villainy in France (1463-1610) by : Jonathan Patterson
Download or read book Villainy in France (1463-1610) written by Jonathan Patterson. This book was released on 2021-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, outward manifestation of inner malice—villainy—in French culture (1463-1610). In pre-modern France, villainous offences were countered, if never fully contained, by intersecting legal and literary responses. Combining the methods of legal anthropology with literary and historical analysis, this study examines villainy across juridical documents, criminal records, and literary texts. Whilst few people obtained justice through the law, many pursued out-of-court settlements of one kind or another. Literary texts commemorated villainies both fictitious and historical; literature sometimes instantiated the process of redress, and enabled the transmission of conflicts from one context to another. Villainy in France follows this overflowing current of pre-modern French culture, examining its impact within France and across the English Channel. Scholars and cultural critics of the Anglophone world have long been fascinated by villainy and villains. This book reveals the subject's significant 'Frenchness' and establishes a transcultural approach to it in law and literature. In this study, villainy's particular significance emerges through its representation in authors remembered for their less-than respectable, even criminal, activities: François Villon, Clément Marot, François Rabelais, Pierre de L'Estoile, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Marston, and George Chapman. Villainy in France affords legal-literary comparison of these authors alongside many of their lesser-known contemporaries; in so doing, it reinterprets French conflicts within a wider European context, from the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century.
Author : M. Gregory Kendrick
Release : 2016-03-01
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 336/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Villainy in Western Culture by : M. Gregory Kendrick
Download or read book Villainy in Western Culture written by M. Gregory Kendrick. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every society has its lineup of wicked, unethical characters--real or fictional--who are regarded as villainous. This book explores how Western societies have used villains to sort insiders from outsiders and establish behavioral norms to support harmony and well-being. There are three parts: nature and "barbarians" as sinister "others" bent on destroying Western civilization; tyrants, traitors and "femmes fatales" as challenges to ideals of legitimate governance, patriotism and gender roles; and gangsters, grifters and murderers as models of evil or unprincipled behavior. The author also discusses two related phenomena: the dramatic paring down of what is considered villainous in the West, and the proliferation of over-the-top villains in pop culture and mass media. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Nizar Zouidi
Release : 2021-07-24
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 553/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media by : Nizar Zouidi
Download or read book Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media written by Nizar Zouidi. This book was released on 2021-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, cultural backgrounds and (inter)disciplinary interests with the aim of energizing the ongoing discussion of the generic and thematic issues related to the representation of villainy and evil in literature and media. The volume covers medieval literature to contemporary literature and also examines important aspects of evil in literature such as social and political identity, the gothic and systemic evil practices. In addition to literature, the book considers examples of villainy in film, TV and media, revealing that performance, performative control and maneuverability are the common characteristics of villains across the different literary and filmic genres and eras studied in the volume.
