Fictions and Metafictions of Evil applies critical, comparative and interdisciplinary approaches. It covers all genres of literature, childrenβs 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 childrenβs literature, hypertext (M. Joyce, Moulthrop) and metafiction (Coetzee, Munch) as well as music, philosophy, stylistics (Tolkien) and the visual arts (Tintoretto, Munch).
GraΕΌyna M. T. Branny, affiliated to the Pedagogical University in KrakΓ³w, 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.
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