A shadow within : evil in fantasy and science fiction /
Barbini, F. T.,editor.
At head of title: Academia Lunare: call for papers 2018.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Good and evil in literature.
Science fiction.
Fantasy literature.
Fantasy literature.
Good and evil in literature.
Science fiction.