Vampires and Vampirism
Author | : Dudley Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Vampires |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dudley Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Vampires |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Montague Summers |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2012-05-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0486121062 |
DIVStudy examines vampire lore in fantastic detail, addressing such issues as how vampires came into existence, vampirish behavior, vampire-like ancient myths, and vampires in modern literature. /div
Author | : Joseph P. Laycock |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2009-05-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
This book, about real vampires and the communities they have formed, explores the modern world of vampirism in all its amazing variety. Long before Dracula, people were fascinated by vampires. The interest has continued in more recent times with Anne Rice's Lestat novels, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the HBO series True Blood, and the immensely popular Twilight. But vampires are not just the stuff of folklore and fiction. Based upon extensive interviews with members of the Atlanta Vampire Alliance and others within vampire communities throughout the United States, this fascinating book looks at the details of real vampire life and the many expressions of vampirism as it now exists. In Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism, Joseph Laycock argues that today's vampires are best understood as an identity group, and that vampirism has caused a profound change in how individuals choose to define themselves. As vampires come "out of the coffin," as followers of a "religion" or "lifestyle" or as people biologically distinct from other humans, their confrontation with mainstream society will raise questions, as it does here, about how we define "normal" and what it means to be human.
Author | : Thomas M. Bohn |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789202930 |
“An illuminating contribution to scholarship on the vampire figure.”—Slavic Review Even before Bram Stoker immortalized Transylvania as the homeland of his fictional Count Dracula, the figure of the vampire was inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected sources, this book offers a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally emerged from folk traditions from all over the world—became so strongly identified with Eastern Europe. It demonstrates that the modern conception of the vampire was born in the crucible of the Enlightenment, embodying a mysterious, Eastern otherness that stood opposed to Western rationality. From the Prologue: From Original Sin to Eternal Life For a broad contemporary public, the vampire has become a star, a media sensation from Hollywood. Bestselling authors such as Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer continue to fire the imaginations of young and old alike, and bloodsuckers have achieved immortality through films like Dracula, Interview with a Vampireand Twilight. It is no wonder that, in the teenage bedrooms of our globalized world, vampires even steal the show from Harry Potter. They have long since been assigned individual personalities and treated with sympathy. They may possess superhuman powers, but they are also burdened by their immortality and have to learn to come to terms with their craving for blood. Whereas the Southeast European vampire, discovered in the 1730s, underwent an Americanization and domestication in the media landscape of the twentieth century, the creole zombies that first became known through the cheap novels and horror films of the 1920s still continue to serve as brainless horror figures. Do bloodsuckers really exist and should we really be afraid of the dead? These are the questions that I seek to tackle, following the wishes of my daughter, who was ten when I started this project.
Author | : Paul Barber |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780300048599 |
Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers a scientific explanation for the origins of the legends.
Author | : Summers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2013-10-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136202617 |
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Toma Longinović |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2011-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822350394 |
Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century.
Author | : Michael Romkey |
Publisher | : Fawcett |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 1990-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0449146383 |
From yesterday to a hundred years ago, he lives in the world and walks among us. He enjoys the finest things in life, including beautfiul women, well-aged wine, and the finest classical composers. He has no guilt—he has no need of it. Neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, he is a man, he is a vampire. And this is his story. . . . “Women are my weakness. Or to be more accurate, I should say they are my greatest weakness, for I have many. Travel. Books. Classical music. Art. Excellent wine. And, formerly, cocaine. I admit these things without a sense of guilt. I am, as my friend from Vienna says, a man with a man’s contradictions. I am neither good nor bad, neither angel nor devil. I am a man. I am a vampire.”—From I, Vampire
Author | : Nick Groom |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2018-10-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300240813 |
An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom’s detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind’s fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.
Author | : Cait Coker |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2020-01-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476637334 |
The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort, humor and fear, desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response, bound by time and geography, but is many things to many people. With a global perspective, this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire's evolution in popular culture. Divided by geography, this text emphasizes the vampiric as a globetrotting citizen du monde rather than an isolated monster.