TY  - GEN
T1  - Metamorphoses of the vampire in literature and film : cultural transformations in Europe, 1732-1933
T2  - Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
A1  - Butler, Erik, 1971-
LA  - English
PP  - Rochester, New York
PB  - Camden House
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn731680342
AB  - "For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly represented as a parasitic aggressor from without, the vampire is in fact a native of Europe, and its "metamorphoses," to quote Baudelaire, a distorted image of social transformation. Because the vampire grows strong whenever and wherever traditions weaken, its representations have multiplied with every political, economic, and technological revolution from the eighteenth century on. Today, in the age of globalization, vampire fictions are more virulent than ever, and the monster enjoys hunting grounds as vast as the international market. Metamorphoses of the Vampire explains why representations of vampirism began in the eighteenth century, flourished in the nineteenth, and came to eclipse nearly all other forms of monstrosity in the early twentieth century. Many of the works by French and German authors discussed here have never been presented to students and scholars in the English-speaking world. While there are many excellent studies that examine Victorian vampires, the undead in cinema, contemporary vampire fictions, and the vampire in folklore, until now no work has attempted to account for the unifying logic that underlies the vampire's many and often apparently contradictory forms. Erik Butler is assistant professor of German Studies at Emory University, where he also teaches comparative literature and film."
OP  - 225
CN  - PN56.V3 B87 2010eb
SN  - 9781571138170
SN  - 157113817X
SN  - 9786613116338
SN  - 6613116335
SN  - 9781571134325
SN  - 1571134328
KW  - Vampires in literature.
KW  - Vampires : History.
KW  - Horror tales, European : History and criticism.
KW  - European fiction : History and criticism.
KW  - Vampire films : History and criticism.
KW  - Social change in literature.
KW  - Literature and society : Europe : History.
KW  - Vampires dans la littérature.
KW  - Vampires : Histoire.
KW  - Roman européen : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Changement social dans la littérature.
KW  - Littérature et société : Europe : Histoire.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Literary.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : German.
KW  - European fiction
KW  - Horror tales, European
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Social change in literature
KW  - Vampire films
KW  - Vampires
KW  - Vampires in literature
KW  - Europe
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Vampir
KW  - Weimarer Republik
KW  - Europa
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Film
KW  - Geschichte 1732-1933
KW  - Geschichte 1918-1933
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
KW  - Academic theses.
KW  - Thèses et écrits académiques.
ER  -