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The universal vampire : origins and evolution of a legend /
"Since the publication of John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of ar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc.,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. THE WESTERN VAMPIRE:FROM DRAUGR TO DRACULA; Chapter 1. "Draugula": The Draugr in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Literature and His Relationship to the Post-Medieval Vampire Myth; Chapter 2. Dracula Anticipated: The "Undead" in Anglo-Irish Literature; Chapter 3. Retracing the Shambling Steps of the Undead: The Blended Folkloric Elements of Vampirism in Bram Stoker's Dracula; Chapter 4. Dracula's Kitchen: A Glossary of Transylvanian Cuisine, Language, and Ethnography; Part II. MEDICAL EXPLANATIONS FOR THE VAMPIRE.
- Chapter 5. Biomedical Origins of VampirismChapter 6. Evidence for the Undead: The Role of Medical Investigation in the 18th-Century Vampire Epidemic; Chapter 7. Undead Feedback: Adaptations and Echoes of Johann Flückinger's Report, Visum et Repertum (1732), until the Millennium; Part III. THE FEMALE VAMPIRE IN WORLD MYTH AND THE ARTS; Chapter 8. Women with Bite: Tracing Vampire Women from Lilith to Twilight; Chapter 9. Vampiresse: Embodiment of Sensuality and Erotic Horror in Carl Th. Dreyer's Vampyr and Mario Bava's The Mask of Satan.
- Chapter 10. The Vampire in Native American and Mesoamerican LoreChapter 11. Vampiric Viragoes: Villainizing and Sexualizing Arthurian Women in Dracula vs. King Arthur (2005); Chapter 12. "If I Wasn't a Girl, Would You Like Me Anyway?" Le Fanu's Carmilla and Alfredson's Let the Right One In; Part IV. OLD AND NEW WORLD MANIFESTATIONS OF THE VAMPIRE; Chapter 13. A Cultural Dynasty of Beautiful Vampires: Japan's Acceptance, Modifications, and Adaptations of Vampires; Chapter 14. From Russia with Blood: Imagining the Vampire in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture.
- Chapter 15. Dracula Comes to Mexico: Carlos Fuentes's Vlad, Echoes of Origins, and the Return of ColonialismChapter 16. Sublime Horror: Transparency, Melodrama, and the Mise-en-Scène of Two Mexican Vampire Films; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Editors.