A shadow within : evil in fantasy and science fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Barbini, F. T. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Luna Press Publishing, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The antihero's journey: the influence of Milton's Satan on the evolution of the dark hero / Alice Capstick
  • Rewriting evil. An alternative to personification: portrayal, presence and purpose in the short fiction of M. John Harrison / Jason Gould
  • Through the veil of the digital revolution and into the abyss of artificial intelligence: the insidious desensitisation of humanity / Sharon Day
  • Embodiments of evil and reflections of social change in second-world fantasy / A J Dalton
  • Xenomorphia - Eighties societal fears and issues as reflected in the movie Aliens / Robert S Malan
  • Born bad: unmasking evil on John Carpenter's Halloween and James Cameron's The Terminator / Kim Lakin-Smith
  • Bluebeard: the eternal predator / Teika Bellamy
  • The problem of evil in pseudo-Taoist secondary worlds / Lucinda Holdsworth
  • From dark side to grey politics: the portrayal of evil in the Star Wars saga / Rostislav Kurka
  • Imperialism as "evil" in epic fantasy: an analysis of the fantasy works of Eddings, Jordan, Sanderson and Brett / Matthew J. Elder & C. Palmer-Patel
  • Yesterday's tyrant: evolving evil in fantasy televisions reformed villains / Katarina O'Dette
  • Spring again: the problem of evil and the end of winter in C.S. Lewis's Narnia / Octavia Cade
  • 'I have done only what was necessary' An exploration of individual and structured evil in the works of N. K. Jemisin / Thomas Moules
  • The nature of evil in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson / Barbara Stevenson
  • Machines of chaos - the Shadows and the Reapers as representations of evil in the television series Babylon 5 and the Mass Effect game series / Jyrki Korpua
  • The bloodlust of Elizabeth Bathory: from the Brothers Grimm to American Horror Story / Tatiana Fajardo
  • From light to dark - using gothic styles to visualise evil in architecture / Dominic Riemenschneider
  • The Inquisitor's creatures: the historical roots of the witch trope and its evolution over the centuries / Steph P. Bianchini
  • Naming the terror in the forest: evolution of the horned god in fantasy fiction / Anna Milon
  • Evil rewritten: witches in revisionist fairy tales / Anna Kohler
  • The fictional scientist as a dichotomy of good and evil in contemporary realist speculative fiction / Sean Z Fitzgerald.