ENGLISH

Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil

By Peter Day

Book information

Publisher
Rodopi
Year
2003
ISBN
1904710050
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2250360 bytes)
Series
At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 28
Pages
137\146
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

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.

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