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myths and metaphors of enduring evil

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Rodopi
Language
English
Pages
243

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Table of Contents

Part I. Legend of the vampire : Getting to know the un-dead : Bram Stoker, vampires and Dracula / Elizabeth Miller
"One for ever" : desire, subjectivity and the threat of the abject in Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla / Hyun-Jung Lee
Sex, death, and ecstacy : the art of transgression / Lois Drawmer
The name of the vampire : some reflections on current linguistic theories on the of the word vampire / Peter Mario Kreuter
The discourse of the vampire in First World War writing / Terry Phillips
"Dead man walking" : the historical context of vampire beliefs / Darren Oldbridge
Vampire dogs and marsupia hyenas : fear, myth, and the Tasmanian tiger's extinction / Phil Bagust
Part II. Vampires for the modern mind : Vampire subcultures / Meg Barker
Embracing the Metropolis : urban vampires in American cinema of the 1980s and 90s / Stacey Abbott
Piercing the corporate veil
with a stake? Vampire imagery and the law / Sharon Sutherland
The vampire and the cyborg embrace : affect beyond fantasy in virtual materialism / James Tobias
Looking in the mirror : vampires, the symbolic, and the thing / Fiona Peters
"Death to vampires!" : the vampire body and the meaning of mutilation / Elizabeth McCarthy
The un-dead : to be feared or/and pitied / Mursel Icoz
"You're wining again Louis" : Anne Rice's vampires as indices of the depressive self / Pete Remington.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Amsterdam, New York, NY
Series
At the interface/probing the boundaries -- v. 28

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Library of Congress
GR830.V3 V34 2006, GR830.V3V34 2006

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Pagination
xiv, 243 p. ;
Number of pages
243

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Open Library
OL22763191M
ISBN 10
9042016698
ISBN 13
9789042016699
OCLC/WorldCat
68568663
Library Thing
1609051
Goodreads
1781760

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