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The Postmillennial Vampire. Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives.
Susan Chaplin
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Description for The Postmillennial Vampire. Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives.
Hardback. Num Pages: 113 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFN; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 293.
This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture. The figure of the vampire has captured the popular imagination to an unprecedented extent since the turn of the millennium. The philosopher René Girard associates the sacred with a communal violence that sacred ritual controls and contains. As traditional formations of the sacred fragment, the ... Read more
This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture. The figure of the vampire has captured the popular imagination to an unprecedented extent since the turn of the millennium. The philosopher René Girard associates the sacred with a communal violence that sacred ritual controls and contains. As traditional formations of the sacred fragment, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
113
Condition
New
Number of Pages
113
Place of Publication
Basel, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319483719
SKU
V9783319483719
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About Susan Chaplin
Susan Chaplin specialises in Romanticism and Gothic Literature from the eighteenth century to the present. She has published extensively in these fields. Her works include The Gothic and the Rule of Law, 1764-1820, Gothic Literature: Texts, Contexts, Connections, The Romanticism Handbook (edited with Professor Joel Faflak), The Frankenstein Workbook, and Law, Literature and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Fiction.
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