- Title
- Evil and the Hero-Villain Binary in Deon Meyer’s Post-Apartheid Crime Thriller, Devil’s Peak:
- Creator
- Naidu, Samantha
- Creator
- Van der Wielen, Karlien
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157991
- Identifier
- vital:40137
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781498533423
- Description
- The Functions of Evil Across Disciplinary Contexts explores answers to two important questions about the age-old theme of evil: is there any use in using the concept of evil in cultural, psychological, or other secular evaluations of the world and its productions? Most importantly, if there is, what might these functions be? By looking across several disciplines and analyzing evil as it is referenced across a broad spectrum of phenomena, this work demonstrates the varying ways that we interact with the ethical dilemma as academics, as citizens, and as people. The work draws from authors in different fields—including history, literary and film studies, philosophy, and psychology—and from around the world to provide an analysis of evil in such topics as deeply canonical as Beowulf and Shakespeare to subjects as culturally resonant as Stephen King, Captain America, or the War on Terror. By bringing together this otherwise disparate collection of scholarship, this collection reveals that discussions of evil across disciplines have always been questions of how cultures represent that which they find socially abhorrent. This work thus opens the conversation about evil outside of field-specific limitations, simultaneously demonstrating the assumptions that undergird the manner by which such a conversation proceeds.
- Format
- 14 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Naidu, S. and van der Wielen, K., 2017. Evil and the Hero-Villain Binary in Deon Meyer’s Post-Apartheid Crime Thriller, Devil’s Peak. In The Function of Evil across Disciplinary Contexts, Lexington Books. p.117-130
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