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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451382103321

Autore

Du Coudray Chantal Bourgault

Titolo

The curse of the werewolf : fantasy, horror and the beast within / / Chantal Bourgault du Coudray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London [England] : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2006

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019

ISBN

0-7556-9558-5

1-282-60519-4

9786612605192

0-85771-187-3

600-00-0889-9

1-4294-6265-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

398.469

Soggetti

Werewolves

Folklore, myths & legends

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Shifting shapes of the werewolf -- Werewolves and scholars -- Upright citizens on all fours -- I used to be a werewolf but I'm alright nowooooo -- The call of the wild -- Women who run with the wolves -- A manifesto for werewolves -- In the steps of the werewolf.

Sommario/riassunto

Half-man-half-myth, the werewolf has over the years infiltrated popular culture in many strange and varied shapes, from Gothic horror to the 'body horror' films of the 1980s and today's graphic novels. Yet despite enormous critical interest in myths and in monsters, from vampires to cyborgs, the figure of the werewolf has been strangely overlooked. Embodying our primal fears - of anguished masculinity, of 'the beast within' - the werewolf, argues Bourgault du Coudray, has revealed in its various lupine guises radically shifting attitudes to the human psyche. Tracing the werewolf's 'use' by ant.