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Vampires : myths and metaphors of enduring evil /

In the modern world vampires come in all forms: they can be perpetrators or victims, metaphors or monsters, scapegoats for sinfulness or mirrors of our own evil. What becomes obvious from the scope of the fifteen essays in this collection is that vampires have infiltrated just about every area of po...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Day, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.
Colección:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 28.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; PART I Legend of the Vampire; Getting to know the Un-dead: Bram Stoker, Vampires and Dracula; "One for Ever": Desire, Subjectivity and the Threat of the Abject in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla; Sex, Death, and Ecstasy: The Art of Transgression; The Name of the Vampire: Some Reflections on Current Linguistic Theories on the Etymology of the Word Vampire; The Discourse of the Vampire in First World War Writing; "Dead Man Walking": The Historical Context of Vampire Beliefs; Vampire Dogs and Marsupial Hyenas: Fear, Myth, and the Tasmanian Tiger's Extinction.