Live Evil : of Magic and Men.

Intro -- Live Evil: Of Magic and Men -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Literary Movements and the Emerging Question: 'Can Evil Exist Today?' -- Evil as Opposition to Self in American Literature and Contemporary Culture -- The Abyss of Freedom: The Radical Evil at the Basis of Human Subjectivity -- Evil as Bondage to the Passions: Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown and Fury -- Unexpected Evils: The Necessity of the Dark Side in Adolescent Narrative -- What is Tempting Anthony? The Beauty of Evil Depicted in Symbolism -- Transgressing Gender Roles: Shape-Shifting in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Malicious (Non)Space in Speculative Fiction: Kathe Koja's The Cipher and Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves -- Evil Writers: The Obsessive Effect of Gothic Writing -- 'Primum Non Nocere': Grey Area in Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong -- What We Know About Evil: A Deep Map -- Complexio Oppositorum: The Integration of Good and Evil in Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat -- The Evil Queens of The Faerie Queene -- Towards a Communicative Conception of Evil -- The Hoodoo that You Do: The Material Culture of Gendered Magic as Risk Management Mechanisms -- Magic and the Power of the Condemned: English Public Execution and Popular Superstition from 1735 to 1868 -- Cinema and the Magical Erasure of the Woman, Or 'How do You Make a Woman Disappear?' -- Shifting the Focus: Magical Beings as Sympathetic Other -- Schools for Wizards -- Ancestor Haunts: Ghosts in Don Rosa's Donald Duck Comics -- Faerie Communion: Magical Cure in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

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