Empathy for the devil : the poetics of identification in psychopath fiction
Thesis
Bentham, A. Empathy for the devil : the poetics of identification in psychopath fiction. (Thesis). University of Salford
As Philip L. Simpson notes, humankind has an ‘ongoing...fascination with tales of gruesome murders and evil villains’ (15). Popular culture abounds with depictions of the mad and the bad; and perhaps no single disorder holds as much morbid appeal as... Read More about Empathy for the devil : the poetics of identification in psychopath fiction.