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The Paradoxes of Revenge in Conflicts
... Abstract: We consider a differential game of a conflict between two factions who both have a desire to exact revenge. We show that, in contrast to conventional wisdom, the desire for revenge need not lead ...
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Developments in revenge, justice and rape in the cinema
... Vigilante revenge films, by contrast, are about what ordinary citizens do when the justice system does not meet their expectations and fails them. “Justice” requires there to be revenge. The perpetrator ...
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The different Perspectives of Christianity and Paganism on the Concept of Revenge in Shakespeare's Hamlet
... of revenge is a controversial and contentious issue between Christians and pagans which may revive the conflict of positions and what makes the conflict more complicated is the foggy picture of the Old Testament ...
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The Desire for Revenge and the Dynamics of Conflicts
... exact revenge for past destruction ...for revenge can cause a low-ability player to exert a higher effort than a high- ability player, which means that the former may have a higher probability of success in ...
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The Face of Comic Revenge in Jonson's Alchemist
... of revenge, the first titles that spring to mind may include Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, and The Spanish ...genres. Revenge can be found in comedies alongside other stereotypes and expectations: the ...
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Rethinking the 'Spectacle of the Scaffold' : Juridical Epistemologies and English Revenge Tragedy
... I want, further, to suggest that even in revenge tragedy, the bloodiest of genres, the shaping epistemology of plot is not that of Foucault’s ‘‘spectacle of the scaffold’’ but is, rather,[r] ...
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Day of the Woman?: Feminism & Rape-Revenge Films
... rape’s place in our everyday world, not only as real physical events but also as part of our fantasies, fears, desires and consumptive practices.” 61 Watching Rape tackles the difficult question of how representations of ...
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Oral History and Revenge in Annie Proulx's "The Half Skinned Steer"
... ancestral revenge emerge as Mero falls back into the behaviours of his meat-eating relatives; the half-skinned steer appears to avenge the murder of its ancestors, just as traditional Icelandic folk tales show ...
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The Violation of Representation: Art, Argento and the Rape Revenge Film
... At stake here is the issue that the very act of representing rape may diminish its seriousness. Diane Wolfthal traces ‘heroic’ rape imagery to heroes and gods who rape to demonstrate power in Ancient Roman and Greek ...
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Revenge in Modern Times: The Necessity of a Federal Law Criminalizing Revenge Porn
... states. Revenge porn litigation should look to libel jurisdiction case law and grant jurisdiction to the state where the harm occurred, where the victim is ...
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Is Tort Law a Form of Institutionalized Revenge?
... These weaker premises are indeed more plausible. (They might even be true.) But the argument still has a problem. The problem is not that if you weaken the revenge argument’s premises to make them more plausible, ...
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Narratives of transformation : feminism, femininity and the rape revenge cycle
... 536-548 Modleski, Tania, Ae WomenTAo Knew TooMitch: Hitchcock and Feminist Aeory New York: Methuen, 1988 Modleski, Tania, Feminism Without Women: Culture and Criticism ill a Posýfeminisl[r] ...
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Revenge and victim justice : a philosophical analysis and evaluation
... of revenge, the defensibility of that model requires that the particular forms of revenge involved themselves be shown to be ...of revenge, the current dissertation is focused on placing in proper ...
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Revenge or reward? The case of Somalia’s suicide bombers
... The suicide wave also occurred simultaneously with the defeat of the insurgents; they were attacked and humiliated by superior forces, and were clearly outmatched.[43] The attacks could [r] ...
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Ragnok in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: The Revenge of the Hrimthursar
... References to Frankenstein will be cited parenthetically throughout the paper.[r] ...
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Revenge pornography: a conceptual analysis. Undressing a crime of disclosure
... of revenge pornography have gained widespread media attention, such as the case of Emma Holten, whose private, intimate and sexual images were disclosed without her consent and who regained control by disclosing ...
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Rage, rancour and revenge: existentialist motives in international relations
... of revenge towards the end of the play was deemed grotesque and unhinged from Greek ideals of nobility and ...terrible revenge: She enters Polymester’s tent under the false pretence of sharing information ...
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Preface: "On Revenge"
... Revenge plots offer particularly compelling combinations of fear and self-justification to those who consume them. The injuries that others may do to the innocent, the infringements upon victims’ rights, loom with ...
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Seeking Vengeance: Revenge Tragedy, Coherence and Scepticism from Sophocles to Shakespeare
... book Revenge Tragedy Aeschylus to Armageddon, John Kerrigan calls one of his chapters “Sophocles in Baker Street”, juxtaposing Oedipus with the famous detective Sherlock ...
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Punishment, Forgiveness, and the Proxy Problem
... Swinburne rejects the customary distinction between revenge and punishment, at least as that distinction is generally explained, arguing that the State's imposition o[r] ...
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