Vampires
Subtitle: myths and metaphors of enduring evil
By: edited by Peter Day.
Contributors: Day, Peter.
Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries -- v. 28
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9789042016699
Subjects: Vampires.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Legend of the vampire : Getting to know the un-dead : Bram Stoker, vampires and Dracula / Elizabeth Miller; title: "One for ever" : desire, subjectivity and the threat of the abject in Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla / Hyun-Jung Lee; title: Sex, death, and ecstacy : the art of transgression / Lois Drawmer; title: The name of the vampire : some reflections on current linguistic theories on the of the word vampire / Peter Mario Kreuter; title: The discourse of the vampire in First World War writing / Terry Phillips; title: "Dead man walking" : the historical context of vampire beliefs / Darren Oldbridge; title: Vampire dogs and marsupia hyenas : fear, myth, and the Tasmanian tiger's extinction / Phil Bagust; title: Part II. Vampires for the modern mind : Vampire subcultures / Meg Barker; title: Embracing the Metropolis : urban vampires in American cinema of the 1980s and 90s / Stacey Abbott; title: Piercing the corporate veil; title: with a stake? Vampire imagery and the law / Sharon Sutherland; title: The vampire and the cyborg embrace : affect beyond fantasy in virtual materialism / James Tobias; title: Looking in the mirror : vampires, the symbolic, and the thing / Fiona Peters; title: "Death to vampires!" : the vampire body and the meaning of mutilation / Elizabeth McCarthy; title: The un-dead : to be feared or/and pitied / Mursel Icoz; title: "You're wining again Louis" : Anne Rice's vampires as indices of the depressive self / Pete Remington.