Evil and Ugliness across Literatures and Cultures Pobrano z https://repo.uni.opole.pl / Downloaded from Repository of Opole University 2021-09-28 UNIVERSITY OF OPOLE INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH Evil and Ugliness across Literatures and Cultures Edited by Ryszard Wolny Stankomir Nicieja Andrzej Ciuk OPOLE 2013 Pobrano z https://repo.uni.opole.pl / Downloaded from Repository of Opole University 2021-09-28 RECENZENCI Ewa K³êbowska-£awniczak REDAKCJA TECHNICZNA Halina Szczegot SK£AD I £AMANIE Jolanta Brodziak KOREKTA Stankomir Nicieja PROJEKT OK£ADKI Wis³omira Nicieja © Copyright by Uniwersytet Opolski Opole 2013 ISBN 978-83-7395-537-0 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego, 45–037 Opole, ul. H. Sienkiewicza 33. Sk³adanie zamówieñ: tel. 77 441 27 14, 77 441 08 78; e-mail:
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[email protected] Pobrano z https://repo.uni.opole.pl / Downloaded from Repository of Opole University 2021-09-28 Andrew Taylor Edith Cowan University Perth, Australia INTRODUCTION: Evil, Ugliness and Disgrace: An Australian View Evil. Ugliness. Disgrace. What an unappealing trio! Two of them can be seen in the painting that was used to publicise the recent conference on this theme, but can we tell which one is missing? A reasonable guess would be that it is disgrace that is not pictured, as the two that can be seen seem to be thoroughly enjoying themselves. And disgrace is generally considered to be not only not enjoyable, but particularly painful. That, surely, might suggest then that if disgrace is not enjoyable, while evil and ugliness seem to be – at least for these two characters – then maybe evil, ugliness and disgrace may not be such natural bedfellows, such constantly inseparable companions, as one might first think.