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Living Dead

Name: Living Dead
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822307891
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A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature

Autor: James B. Twitchell

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Editura: Duke University Press

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In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell wr...

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Autor

James B. Twitchell

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1981

Pagini

232

EAN

9780822307891

ISBN

0822307898

Enbook ID

04936023

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

414

Dimensiuni

154 x 236 x 17

Descriere completă

In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal relations. However vulgar the vampire has since become, it is important to remember that along with the Frankenstein monster, the vampire is one of the major mythic figures bequeathed to us by the English Romantics. Simply in terms of cultural influence and currency, the vampire is far more important than any other nineteenth-century archetypes; in fact, he is probably the most enduring and prolific mythic figure we have. This book traces the vampire out of folklore into serious art until he stabilizes early in this century into the character we all too easily recognize.