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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Vampires."”.
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Vampires in Literature
… relief which follows when the horror has ended. Vampires belong to the literary tradition of horror and started out as monsters of pure evil that preyed on the innocent. Count Dracula, from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897), is an example of an evil being which belongs to the class of the “old” …
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Jailbreakers, Villains, and Vampires: Representations of Criminality in Early-Victorian Popular Texts
<p>In <em>Jailbreakers, Villains, and Vampires: Representations of Criminality in Early-Victorian Popular Texts</em>, I analyze moments of discursive dissonance that emerge through the juxtaposition of early-Victorian theories of criminality and representations of criminals in popular culture. In …
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R.M. Renfield: The Missing Link in the Degeneration of Humans into Vampires in Bram Stoker's Dracula
… is neither totally degenerated to the level of vampires nor as fully evolved to the level of humans, instead holding a stepping stone spot between these two species. Because of Renfield’s liminal position, his character is often complex and shifting. I argue that towards the end of the novel, …
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COMING OUT OF THE COFFIN AS THE POSTHUMAN: POSTHUMAN RHETORIC AND HARRIS’ SOOKIE STACKHOUSE SERIES
<p>In this article, I argue that the vampires in Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels illustrate clearly the posthuman self in its connection beyond itself to other vampires, humans, and non-humans. Learning to co-exist becomes problematic in Harris’ series, where we encounter a “new” …
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“More than What [They] Made Us to Be”: From Passing to Perception in Victorian and Modern Vampire Media
<p>Throughout Victorian Gothic horror fiction, vampires function as deviant figures, maneuvering within social confines of passing until their status quo-threatening identity is exposed. Of the popular vampires from this period, most gradually fail to maintain status as social insiders—as …
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"There was No Sign of Man in It": Casting Dracula as Posthuman and Valuing the Progressive Vampire
… and a plethora of scholarship. I argue that the vampires in <em>Dracula </em>do not fit into the traditional critical understandings of the vampire; rather, they belong in two different but related categories recently theorized by science fiction studies and related to human evolution: transhuman …
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Performing "Camp, Vamp & Femme Fatale": Revisiting, Reinventing & Retelling the Lives of Post-Death, Retro-Gothic Women
… of cultural narratives about female vampires. The chapter goes on to survey the narrative, cinematic and critical work on women as vampires. As many of the texts were developed as part of the fantasy role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, this chapter also surveys how fantasy …
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Fear Then and Now: The Vampire as a Reflection of Society
… to focus on here is the <em>vampire</em>. Said vampires are witnessed as changing over time to adjust to the awakening or loss of certain human fears, distresses, and perceived threats—whether that be war, religion, race, etc. While the basic pillars of their image remain similar to their …
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Sex, Consent, and Autonomy in Twilight and Vampire Academy
… adult series, Twilight and Vampire Academy, use vampires to aid in conversations revolving around prevalent teenage issues such as sex, consent, and autonomy. Both series have romantic relationships at the forefront of their plot. By having the main characters of the books be in new …
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Nightfall
… sixteen-year-old Lilith attends a party full of vampires, she learns her angel blood is an irresistible delicacy. Torn between vampire brothers Nox and Sol, Lilith must make the life changing decision to stay human or change into a vampire and live between the brothers forever.</p>
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Blood, Enjoyment and Belonging in Selected Vampire Fiction
… Crow segregation ended in America, postmodern vampires who relate to their blood-drinking with reluctance appeared. The ironic distance between postmodern vampires and their earlier counterparts meant that the genre provided a means for exploring the afterlife of eugenics, given the vampire’s …
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Paranormal Orgy
… a world full of the paranormal— demons and vampires and aliens— and how some very real, very flawed characters get by in the face of these monsters. Many different points of view are utilized in this work, beginning with the point of view of a 15-year-old girl who may or may not be …
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Through the eyes of a vampire: the effects of rhetorical context in two of Anne Rice's vampire chronicles
… deeply ingrained ideas, such as the evilness of vampires, can be affected and perhaps even altered by rhetorical perspective.
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From demon to god : the evolution of the vampire in literature.
Vampires may be centuries-old mythological creatures, but depictions thereof abound in our modern society in literature, film, and television. The prevalence of the vampire is related to its enormous symbolic power to reflect socio-cultural conditions of society at the time of its creation, which …
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Blood, Tears, and Sweat: An Intersectional Excavation of the Literary Vampire in Neoliberal Discourse
… the discourse of monstrosity with regard to vampires. The shifting representation of the vampire in many paranormal romances is profoundly conflicted; it often explicitly calls attention to the injustice of social inequalities while also implicitly reinforcing institutional ideologies that …
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Maintaining Untraditional Virginity
… there are striking similarities between the vampires and the goddess. Through their virgin connection, the two texts demonstrate the universality of the conception of virginity and the complexity that can come with it.
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Slaying Literature: Metaphor and Characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
… Whedon is a storyteller who created Buffy the Vampires Slayer, a television series about a young girl who is chosen to fight the supernatural evil. She makes friends who help her when she needs it, and enemies who are frequently demonic and generally evil. Whedon uses many metaphors in the …
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Stigma Isn’t All Bad: How Storytelling and Monster Metaphors in Anita Blake Challenge Existing Notions of Health-Related Stigma and Generate Productive Stigma Outcomes
… Like people living with HIV/AIDS, zombies, vampires and werewolves which are found in fictional narratives experience a variety of stigmatizing behaviours. They are diagnosed as ‘sick’ or ‘diseased’, labelled and stereotyped as dangerous and contagious, and separated physically as well as …
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