Fictions and Metafictions of Evil

Grażyna M. T. Branny, affiliated to the Pedagogical University in Kraków, 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.

• Contents: Anna Pietrzykowska-Motyka: «Read Thine Own Evil»: Exploring the Faces of Evil in King Lear – Monika Mazurek: Awful Disclosures, or, Evil in Disguise: The Convent in the Victorian Protestant Novel – Jan Rybicki: «To What Serves Mortal Beauty» in «The Windhover» – Przemysław Michalski: The Problem of Violence in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke – Jutta Göller/Karl Heinz Göller (†): How Evil Came into the World: Ted Hughes’s «Apple Tragedy»: A Satirical Antithesis to the Biblical Myth of Creation – Aleksandra Budrewicz-Beratan: Social Evil in Eliza Orzeszkowa and Charles Dickens – Laurence Davies: Evil Communications in Burdekin and Baldwin – Grażyna M. T. Branny: The Unspoken and the Unspeakable: Evil and Intertextuality in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark – Marek Pawlicki: Reading Evil, Writing Evil in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello and The Master of Petersburg – Dominik Becher: The Disappearance of Evil?: The Anti-Villain as Identification Figure for Young Readers – Wojciech Majka: Subjectivity and Beyond: Ethics and the Question of Good and Evil – Małgorzata Pawłowska: Diabolus in Musica – J. Gill Holland: Fictions and Metafictions of Evil: The Case of Edvard Munch, Artist and Author – Joanna Podhorodecka: Reviving «Dead» Metaphors: Images of Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings – Emilia Branny-Jankowska: Demons of Technology: The Computer, the Society and Evil in Michael Joyce’s afternoon and Stuart Moulthrop’s Hegirascope – Anne Luyat: Terra Infidel: Tintoretto’s The Annunciation in Wajdi Mouawad’s Ciels.