The Universal Vampire

The Universal Vampire
Author :
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Total Pages : 265
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781611475814
ISBN-13 : 1611475813
Rating : 4/5 (813 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Universal Vampire by : Barbara Brodman

Download or read book The Universal Vampire written by Barbara Brodman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire was a feared creature of Eastern European folklore and legend, rising from the grave at night to consume its living loved ones and neighbors, often converting them at the same time into fellow vampires. A major question exists within vampire scholarship: to what extent is this creature a product of European cultural forms, or is the vampire indeed a universal, perhaps even archetypal figure? In this collection of sixteen original essays, the contributors shed light on this question. One essay traces the origins of the legend to the early medieval Norse draugr, an “undead” creature who reflects the underpinnings of Dracula, the latter first appearing as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. In addition to these investigations of the Western mythic, literary and historic traditions, other essays in this volume move outside Europe to explore vampire figures in Native American and Mesoamerican myth and ritual, as well as the existence of similar vampiric traditions in Japanese, Russian and Latin American art, theatre, literature, film, and other cultural productions. The female vampire looms large, beginning with the Sumerian goddess Lilith, including the nineteenth-century Carmilla, and moving to vampiresses in twentieth-century film, literature, and television series. Scientific explanations for vampires and werewolves constitute another section of the book, including eighteenth-century accounts of unearthing, decapitation and cremation of suspected vampires in Eastern Europe. The vampire’s beauty, attainment of immortality and eternal youth are all suggested as reasons for its continued success in contemporary popular culture.


The Universal Vampire Related Books

The Universal Vampire
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Barbara Brodman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-08 - Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, mu
The Universal Vampire
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Barbara Brodman
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Since the publication of John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, musi
Return of Evil
Language: en
Pages: 214
Authors: Larry Mike Garmon
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When three teenagers' summer jobs at Universal Studios go awry, classic movie monsters who are supposed to be turned into holograms turn into reality instead, a
Images of the Modern Vampire
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Barbara Brodman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-04 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vamp
Dracula
Language: en
Pages: 97
Authors: Bram Stoker
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-04-12 - Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! The most powerful vampire of all time returns in our Stepping Stone Classic adaption of the origi