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Subject(s)

• Vampires [Browse]
• Folklore [Browse]

Related name

Day, Peter [Browse]

Series

• At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 28. [More in this series]
• At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 28 [More in this series]

Summary note

In the modern world vampires come in all forms: they can be perpetrators or victims, metaphors or monsters, scapegoats for sinfulness or mirrors of our own evil. What becomes obvious from the scope of the fifteen essays in this collection is that vampires have infiltrated just about every area of popular culture and consciousness. In fact, the way that vampires are depicted in all types of media is often a telling signifier of the fears and expectations of a culture or community and the way that it perceives itself; and others. The volume's essays offer a fascinating insight into both vampires themselves and the cultures that envisage them.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Language note

English

Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction / Peter Day
• 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 Etymology 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 Oldridge
• Vampire Dogs and Marsupial Hyenas: Fear, Myth, and the Tasmanian Tiger's Extinction / Phil Bagust
• Vampires for the Modern Mind
• Vampire Subcultures / Meg Barker
• Embracing the Metropolis: Urban Vampires in American Cinema of the 1980's and 90's / 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 / Nursel Icoz
• "You're Whining Again Louis": Anne Rice's Vampires as Indices of the Depressive Self / Pete Remington.

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ISBN

• 94-012-0146-3
• 1-4237-8823-0

OCLC

70680088

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