Villains in the Novel: from Dickens, Hardy and Wilkie Collins to Hilary Mantel
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- Are villains cardboard characters? If so, why do we enjoy them so much?
Drawing examples from film and TV drama, as well as from popular fiction, this lecture will try to explain the satisfaction of villainy for the audience. Using the novels of Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy, it will look at the development of the villain in nineteenth-century fiction; and at examples of contemporary literary novelists, like Hilary Mantel, who are willing to unleash the energies of villainy.
A lecture by John Mullan
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Bond Villain --first usage might be James Monaco's 1992 The Movie Guide page 620:
"Connery delivers his usual charming performance, and Brandaurer (Mephisto, Out of Africa) makes a great Bond villain."
This speaker is great!
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The hypothesis Andrew Beal, was wrong,
128^5+32^7=8^12,
do you want to know more?
John's verbal tic..... "aaaaand...." 😆
Isn't Mr Wickam a villain? You seem to reserve the title of "villain" only tfor the main plotting character, but just being villainous is not enough to be called a villain,
"...the villain comes from plays..." - but where did the plays get them from? To say the 'villain is a plotter' to bolster this claim and deny that the villain came from myth and fairytale rather neglects the debt the Vice from medieval drama owes to the Trickster figure from, yes, myth and fairytale. Consider Loki in Norse mythology - or that primeval villainous schemer, the serpentine Satan.
Long John Silver’s wife ran a tavern; was “woman of color” as I recall.
Villains in the Novel: from Dickens, Hardy and Wilkie Collins to Hilary Mantel 1725pm 11.4.22 can you say that now. or is it deemed racist? i mean, telling folk who happen to be asian or afro american they need to pay their taxes or national insurance has been deemed racist. i mean, you could have presented a talk on the literary schism called: mistaken identity... or in this case sharing the same moniker but engendering different attitudes to life's vicissitudes. he's bent he's straight as a die. discuss. p.s i loved dallas back in the day and i know i have waxed about soap operas being the preserve of women. but i used to think JR Ewing was a fantastic bad guy, excellently played. this show will never be surpassed... p.s i dont mind literary chats. any chance you could present a horror based literary lecture? i mean, after this i am going to watch salem's lot as i equate dallas with salem's lot for some reason.
A coloured woman. Don’t pander to the “woke” by adopting their language.
She was his accomplice too. She sold the tavern, drew their money from the bank and went off to meet Long John at some appointed place when he came back from his last adventure. The racist comments are from Squire Trelawney and Jim Hawkins.
@@rociomiranda5684 Villains in the Novel: from Dickens, Hardy and Wilkie Collins to Hilary Mantel 1520pm 8.5.22 not having read the tome you speak of... silence is the rage. but you can elaborate. i dont think words actually denote the sensibilities you want them to... irrespective of the era they were scrawled down in...
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Kronsteen!
Bond baddie is more traditional.
I guess Loveless is the original incel.
Why so much time spent taking about JR Ewing and James bond films?
I clicked to watch a talk about novels.
What a load of tripe. Dallas! JR! Dumbed down drivel.
I read Clarissa, but only once. I found her extremely irritating.
Amazing to see people getting paid to trot out this drivel from the public purse
I believe Gresham is still funded by endowments rather than the public purse.
why do you think its drivel?
Why is there always some git trying to attack videos like this in amongst just a few other comments. Why do you self inflated, little naysayers, even bother? You never say anything genuinely critical about these videos, you just say you hate them in a blustering, antiquated vocabulary that make you sound like a failed academic that's sat alone in a musty house, heavily drinking.
'I wanna be like Matt KELLY..! (OoooOooO)'