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The supernatural revamped : from timeworn legends to twenty-first-century chic /
This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Madison :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
2016
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Of angels and demons: staging the demise of Ireland's "Celtic tiger" through supernatural allegory / C. Austin Hill
- No more Mr. Nice Angel: angelic ethics from the ancient world through Paradise Lost to Supernatural / Scott Culpepper
- The nightmare tales of J. S. Le Fanu / Paul E. H. Davis
- Of fairies and sorcerers: dichotomous depictions of race and ethnicity in 1980s fantasy / Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman
- Philosophers and demons: Socrates, Descartes, and the search for certainty / Darren Hibbs
- The haunting of a nation: ghostly public discourses and Jamaican national trauma / Andrea Shaw Nevins
- An American werewolf in Trellebourg: representation of the werewolf in Swedish folk belief and popular culture / Tommy Kuusela
- Magic Mexican modernity: the shifting image of witches and witchcraft in the movies / Claudia Schaefer and Raul Rodríguez-Hernández
- Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy, supernatural heredity, and "creature" genetics / Ashley Szanter
- An anime Dullahan: the Irish death messenger adapted in Japanese popular culture / Masaya Shimokusu
- Re-dressing revenants: anxieties of the body, the self, and desire when the undead make a stylish return / Sarah Heaton
- From vampires to zombies: the revisionist recreation of I Am Legend / Jessica E. Birch
- Dying to love you: the evolution of the romantic zombie / Simon Bacon
- Undead Yakuza: the Japanese zombie movie, cultural resonance, and generic conventions / Kayleigh Murphy and Mark David Ryan
- "Look at the flowers": female evolution in the face of the zombie hordes of The Walking Dead / Cynthia Vinney and Caryn Wiley-Rapoport
- From white zombies to night zombies and beyond: the evolution of the zombie in Western popular culture / Todd K. Platts
- From saga to Skyrim: the literary and multimedia reception of the Norse-Icelandic Draugr myth / Matthias Teichert