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  • Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump

    Images from Literature and Visual Arts

    Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place” to the psychotic world of Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, from science fiction and recent horror films, ... Leer más

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  • Apocalyptic Chic

    Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts

    This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity’s fear of extinction and its quest for survival -- in revenant, supernatural, or living human ... Leer más

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  • The Supernatural Revamped

    From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic

    This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the ... Leer más

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  • Images of the Modern Vampire

    The Hip and the Atavistic

    Edición de Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan ...
    In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European revenant and ultimately to Dracula, who first appears as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, published in 1897. The essays in that collection ... Leer más

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  • The Universal Vampire

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    Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire was a feared creature of Eastern European folklore ... Leer más

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  • Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film

    Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933

    de Erik Butler ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems

    This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history. Quotes from the book: "Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute." "Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence ... Leer más

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  • Grimm's Fairy Tales

    Grimm’s Fairy Tales is a collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm. They were among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, and popularized stories such as The Frog Prince, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood, and Snow White. The influence of these fairy tales was widespread. W. H. Auden praised the ... Leer más

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  • Jack and The Beanstalk and Other Fairy Tales

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    "Dark Hollow" is yet another of Green’s fascinating legal thrillers, full of horror and spine chilling suspense. In this brilliant story, a “woman in purple” shows up at the house of a small village judge to challenge his verdict that many years before has convicted the local inn-keeper of a brutal murder. When the judge reaffirms his belief of her inn-keeper guilt, the mysterious woman, who is ... Leer más

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  • The Violet Fairy Book

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    The stories in this Violet Fairy Book, as in all the others of the series, have been translated out of the popular traditional tales in a number of different languages. These stories are as old as anything that men have invented. They are narrated by naked savage women to naked savage children. They have been inherited by our earliest civilised ancestors, who really believed that beasts and trees ... Leer más

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  • Bigfoot Observer's Field Manual

    Yah-ta-hey. Welcome! May I assume that you are interested in Forest Giants and wish to arrange your very own peaceful encounter? I won't tell you that it is easy. Nevertheless, it is possible and even probable — but only if you follow to the letter the systematic sugges tions contained within this manual.Take care, my friend. ... Leer más

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