ZAA - Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
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Heft 3/2000

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  • Göran Kjellmer: Mondegreens and Phonology

  • Lucy Katona: A Framework of Negotiated Oral Test Discourse Based on Hungarian EFL Examinations

  • Peter Krahé: The Early Modern Age as a Period of Transition in Ben Jonson’s “To Penshurst”

  • Dirk Padeken: Das Böse Ende der Moderne: William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Bret Easton Ellis (abstract)

  • Sabine Milz: Ethnicity and/or Nationality Writing in Contemporary Canada and Germany: A Comparative Study of Marlene Nourbese Philip’s and Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Writing of Hybridity and Its Public and Critical Reception

  • Buchbesprechungen

  • Lars Hermerén. English for Sale: A Study of the Language of Advertising. (Albrecht Neubert)

  • Manfred Görlach. Studies in Middle English Saints’ Legends. (Thomas Kohnen)       

  • Robert Mayer. History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe. (Ewald Mengel)            

  • Theo Stemmler/Stefan Horlacher, eds. Erscheinungsformen des Sonetts. (Sonja Fielitz)     

  • Christoph Bode/Ulrich Broich, eds. Die Zwanziger Jahre in Großbritannien: Literatur und Gesellschaft einer spannungsreichen Dekade. (Wolfgang Wicht)    

  • Dieter Mehl/Christa Jansohn, eds. The First and Second Lady Chatterley Novels. (Jürgen Donnerstag)       

  • Hildegard Möller. A Wake Bestiary: Mit Untersuchungen zur Tiersymbolik in James Joyces Finnegans Wake. (Helmut Bonheim)           

  • Christoph Schöneich. Edmund Talbot und seine Brüder: Englische Bildungsromane nach 1945. (Ralf Schneider)         

  • Martina Löschnigg. Edward Bond: Dialog und Sprachgestus. (Peter Paul Schnierer)          

  • Nancy Ruttenberg. Democratic Personality: Popular Voice and the Trial of American Authorship. (Gabriele Linke)

  • Bernd C. Peyer. The Tutor’d Mind: Indian Missionary-Writers in Antebellum America. (Gesa Mackenthun)     

  • Jack Zipes. When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition. (Mirosawa Buchholtz)         

  • Kati Röttger/Heike Paul. Differenzen in der Geschlechterdifferenz. (Susanne Scholz)  

  • Jörg Helbig. Geschichte des britischen Films. (Claudia Sternberg)


Dirk Padeken: Das Böse Ende der Moderne: William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Bret Easton Ellis
In pre-modern times the existence of evil confirmed the Divinity of God – or so went Aurelius Augustinus’ theory of the theodicy. In modern times the existence of evil confirmed the sovereignty and the autonomy of the human – or so went Ralph Waldo Emerson’s or William James’s theory of the anthropodicy. This essay focuses on three 20th century novels by William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy and Bret Easton Ellis which – against this very backdrop – dare to face evil as a radical and ontological power instead, a power of annihilation, devoid of any hope of reconciliation. In their respective attempts to ask for the position of the self in a world in which evil takes its solid turn, Faulkner, on the one hand, falls back upon gnostic ideas and Cormac McCarthy, on the other hand, reflects about ancient cosmology, especially the dark philosophical insights of Heraclitus. Ellis finally testifies to the ultimate triumph of evil and the failure of both cosmology and humanity.


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