Vampires : myths and metaphors of enduring evil / edited by Peter Day.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Day, Peter.

Series:

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 28.

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vampires.

Folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0146-3

1-4237-8823-0

OCLC:

70680088