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Titolo |
The universal vampire : origins and evolution of a legend / / edited by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan |
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Madison [N.J.], : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc., 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-24337-1 |
1-61147-581-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BrodmanBarbara |
DoanJames E |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Vampires |
Animals, Mythical |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 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 |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book presents the vampire as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire (such as Dracula), or 20th and 21st-century film versions. Instead, we find examples of vampires from literally around the world: each culture and age reshaping the legend in its own image and even seeking psychological and scientific explanations to explain the phenomenon. |
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