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Chandler, Anthony N. "Vampires incorporated, self-definition in Anne Rice's Vampire chronicles." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0021/MQ37197.pdf.
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Chandler, Anthony N. "Vampires incorporated : self-definition in Anne Rice's Vampire chronicles." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28234.
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This thesis examines the use of orality as a means to self-definition in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. The main contention of this thesis is that within the Vampire Chronicles orality defines the self through incorporation, and that the bodily incorporation of food through a sexual consumption leads the vampire to naturally evolve a sense of who he or she is at any given moment in time. It is in this manner that this article discusses how the body, sexuality, food, and the possession of financial capital define and limit the individual's notion of self.
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Prinz, Kristin Taylor. "Changing the Vampire Tradition: The Vampires of Darren Shan." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579332.
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This paper will explore the ways in which the Cirque du Freak series by Darren Shan both follows and deviates from the older vampire tradition that is seen in books such as The Vampyre, Dracula, Varney the Vampire, Carmilla, and Interview the Vampire. It will also look at the way the changes he made to the vampire tradition reflect the deep conflicts in modern western culture, especially the social interactions and relationships most relevant to his teenage readers, such as problems that involve gender roles, family relationships, and finding one's place in society. Finally, this paper will examine the way other modern day young-adult vampire novels reflect conflicts differently than Shan's novels.
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Nahrung, Jason. "Vampires in the sunburnt country : adapting vampire Gothic to the Australian landscape." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2007. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16668/1/Jason_Nahrung_-_Exegesis.pdf.
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I first became enamoured with vampire Gothic after reading Bram Stoker's Dracula in high school, but gradually became dissatisfied with the Australian adaptations of the sub-genre. In looking for examples of Australian vampire Gothic, a survey of more than 50 short stories, 23 novels and five movies made by Australians reveals fewer than half were set in an identifiably Australian setting. Even fewer make use of three key, landscape-related tropes of vampire Gothic - darkness, earth and ruins. Why are so few Australian vampire stories set in Australia? In what ways can the metaphorical elements of vampire Gothic be applied to the Sunburnt Country?
This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining examples of Australian vampire narratives, including film. Particular attention is given to Mudrooroo's Master of the Ghost Dreaming series which, more than any other Australian novel, succeeds in manipulating and subverting the tropes of vampire Gothic. The process of adaptation of vampire Gothic to the Australian environment, both natural and man-made, is also a core concern of my own novel, Vampires' Bane, which uses earth, darkness and a modern permutation of ruins to explore its metaphorical intentions.
Through examining previous works and through my own creative process, Vampires' Bane, I argue that Australia's growing urbanisation can be juxtaposed against the vampire-hostile natural environment to enhance the tropes of vampire Gothic, and make Australia a suitable home for narratives that explore the ongoing evolution of Count Dracula and his many-faceted descendants.
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Nahrung, Jason. "Vampires in the sunburnt country : adapting vampire Gothic to the Australian landscape." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16668/.
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I first became enamoured with vampire Gothic after reading Bram Stoker's Dracula in high school, but gradually became dissatisfied with the Australian adaptations of the sub-genre. In looking for examples of Australian vampire Gothic, a survey of more than 50 short stories, 23 novels and five movies made by Australians reveals fewer than half were set in an identifiably Australian setting. Even fewer make use of three key, landscape-related tropes of vampire Gothic - darkness, earth and ruins. Why are so few Australian vampire stories set in Australia? In what ways can the metaphorical elements of vampire Gothic be applied to the Sunburnt Country? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining examples of Australian vampire narratives, including film. Particular attention is given to Mudrooroo's Master of the Ghost Dreaming series which, more than any other Australian novel, succeeds in manipulating and subverting the tropes of vampire Gothic. The process of adaptation of vampire Gothic to the Australian environment, both natural and man-made, is also a core concern of my own novel, Vampires' Bane, which uses earth, darkness and a modern permutation of ruins to explore its metaphorical intentions. Through examining previous works and through my own creative process, Vampires' Bane, I argue that Australia's growing urbanisation can be juxtaposed against the vampire-hostile natural environment to enhance the tropes of vampire Gothic, and make Australia a suitable home for narratives that explore the ongoing evolution of Count Dracula and his many-faceted descendants.
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Catalán-Morseby, Elizabeth. "Vampires in The Twilight Saga : The Reinvention and Humanization of the Vampire Myth." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-6709.
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This paper aims to make a comparison and investigation between three popular vampire fictions, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire and Stephanie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga in order to show a development of the vampire. During the investigation it has become clear that the vampire over a decade has become an object that writers continue to reinvent and humanize. Concepts of Self and Other are thus important terms in this paper in the attempt to analyze the reinvention and humanization of the vampire myth. In Stoker’s Dracula, the vampire will be discussed from an Eastern and Western perspective where hence the vampire figures as an Oriental demon that in every way is the opposite from the British Empire. Rice’s novel, Interview of the Vampire shows a seemingly more humanized vampire that is less Evil, whilst Meyer’s The Twilight Saga demonstrates a vampire that is entirely human, however, with “special” abilities.
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Gianniny, Megan E. ""Other than Dead": Queering Vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Interview with the Vampire, and The Gilda Stories." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/382.
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This thesis examines three diverse vampire narratives from around the 1990s, arguing that the liminal figure of the vampire, forever in between life and death, is also then well-positioned to queer norms around gender, sexuality, and relationships. This queering, however, manifests differently in each narrative. My analysis looks at each of these three narratives in turn, while also considering how each text’s placement as mainstream or not mainstream affected the manifestation of the vampires’ queering.
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Ruggieri, Maria Cristina. "Le vampire : origines folkloriques et transpositions cinématographiques." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030157.
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"L'"existence" du vampire est un leitmotiv récurrent dans des époques et des domaines très éloignés. Ses origines doivent être recherchées en partant de l'anthropologie, puisqu'elles sont étroitement liées aux croyances ancestrales et aux craintes ataviques de l'être humain. Mon étude se propose d'analyser les étapes et les éléments fondamentaux qui ont permis au non-mort d'exister depuis toujours et de s'adapter à chaque circonstance historique, géographique et culturelle. En particulier, en bâtissant un pont entre deux disciplines très éloignées, le folklore et le cinéma, je vise à cerner ce qui reste au cinéma de l'image du vampire archétype, dont les origines plongent dans les domaines de l'anthropologie et du folklore. "The vampire is a recurring leitmotiv that can be found in differents ages and differents environments. His origins are connected to ancestral beliefs and human fears. The purpose of my study consiste in finding the archetypal vampire in modern vampire cinema
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Herrmann, Andrew F. "Ghosts, Vampires, Zombies, and Us." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/751.
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In this exploration, I examine how autoethnographers create connections and community through the metaphor of the undead in their various forms. Autoethnography allows us to write and speak about our anxieties, our impolite private issues, and what frightens us at home and at work, including aging, guilt, mortality, shame, and lost love. Through autoethnography, we connect the seen and the invisible, the known and the unknown, the understood and the unexplained, mystery and science. It provides us the opportunity to reenchant the world. Most importantly, autoethnographic writing provides us the opportunity to recognize that our fears are not ours alone but are a basis upon which we can all connect.
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Stenholm, Catharina. "Vampyrer : En studie av den europeiska vampyren och dess samtida funktioner." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-26414.
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Abstract ”The Vampire from past to present”. This essay studies and compares the early historical Vampire as it is presented in some of the Western Europe countries, primarily Greece, but also Romania and how their descriptions of the Vampire have inspired the portrait of vampires in modern films and literature. The essay aims to answer the questions: How has the historical, traditional, European Vampire developed through the centuries into the modern Vampire of today? Which original facts and perceptions about the Vampire from a Christian and pre-Christian point of view can be observed in the modern Vampire, as it is presented in the chosen films and furthermore, can any new ideas be observed in the films? By studying Vampire literature and poems throughout the centuries, a very interesting picture appears. Therefore lots of stories, poems and historical individuals, both real and fictional, are presented in a part of this essay. Another important fact for this essay, is that the Vampire is historically related to the Werewolf, and therefore this creature is also presented here. The conclusion is that the Vampire seem to fit in every historical context, and has managed to thrive over time. It is still presented as a mean, blood-sucking creature, even though we don´t seem to fear it any longer. It has become more of an ideal for many people; representing our longing for youth, beauty and a never-ending life, than a frightening, dangerous creature as it was presented in the early history.
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Osap, Sonja. "Queer as Vampires : A study of Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire through queer theory." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-6262.
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This paper will focus on the homosexuality and homoeroticism that can be found in Anne Rice’s novel Interview With The Vampire using Queer theory. The paper is divided into four parts in which different aspects of the novel will be discussed. Firstly the discussion focuses on the homoeroticism which is abundant in Rice’s novel. The second part covers the subject of identity and Louis’ quest to find out what and why he is. Next the issue of family within the vampyric world is examined using the family unit that Louis, Lestat and Claudia make as its basis. Lastly the question of why the ‘gender-free’ love which is present in Interview With The Vampire is important to the vampire genre is answered.
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Soloviova-Horville, Daniela. "Du vampire slave au vampire occidental : genèse et migrations d'une figure de l'imaginaire." Amiens, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006AMIE0016.
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L’étude examine les particularités de la vision slave du vampirisme et retrace les étapes de sa migration au sein de la société et de la littérature occidentales aux XVIIIe et XIXe s. Elle examine les facteurs favorisant la découverte des cas de vampirisme survenus en Serbie dans les années 1730. L’analyse des réactions des penseurs du XVIIIe s. Face à cette ‘superstition’ montre que le vampirisme est stigmatisé comme une pathologie culturelle, l’apanage des peuples incultes. L’examen des définitions des dictionnaires du XVIIIe s. Témoigne de la focalisation sur l'aspect gorgé de sang du vampire. La fascination devant la pléthore sanguine répond ainsi à la perplexité devant la pléthore de preuves ‘officielles’. Dans la littérature du XIXe s. L’image du corps vampirique reflète les préoccupations d’une société occidentale en quête d’elle-même. Le vampire devient le symbole du mal-être et du désir insatisfait - le corps pâle et exsangue se fait l’allégorie du manque et de la privationBeginning with an analysis of the Slavic vision of vampirism and its attributes, our dissertation traces the various stages of its development in Western European literature and culture in the 18th and 19th centuries, before examining the factors responsible for the growing notoriety of Serbian vampire "cases" in the 1730s. The numerous philosophical and theological treatises concerning this "superstition" substantiate the fact it was considered a pathological adjunct of ignorant peoples. Eighteenth century entries in dictionaries stress the distended aspect of vampires bloated with blood, the fascination for which can be measured by the plethora of official texts "proving" their existence. The image of the vampire in 19th century literature exemplifies Western European society's quest for identity, and it is within this framework that the vampire came to connote infirmity and unquenched desire, with the pale and bloodless body becoming the allegorical representation of deprivation
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Sturchler, Georges. "Vampires et vampirismes : des mythes aux perversions." Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986STR1M125.
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Louis, Stella. "Faire croire aux vampires, des écrits (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles) aux images cinématographiques (XXe-XXIe siècles)." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL039.
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Le vampirisme est une parole et un discours qui circulent : il est une écriture qui contamine et qui se transmet de texte en texte, d’histoire en histoire, d’image en image. Le vampire est une forme vide, un cadavre ouvert et disséqué à la grande époque du vampirisme (le XVIIIe siècle), et que l’imagination, collective ou individuelle, a rempli de fiction(s) dans la perspective et/ ou selon le désir de « faire croire » au(x) vampire(s), même quand il s’agit de remettre en cause leur existence. Des images se réunissent pour faire le vampire et le réaliser, et circulent selon le principe « vampirique » de la contamination. Une forme vampirique au sens d’une écriture formelle se répète des écrits du XVIIIe et du XIXe siècle jusqu’aux dernières images cinématographiques, et toujours selon le même principe qui consiste à interroger la croyance d’un destinataire-récepteur : un lecteur ou un spectateur. L’objet de cette thèse est principalement de mettre en évidence et d’étudier l’identité de la croyance aux vampires du XVIIIe siècle et la croyance du spectateur devant un film de vampires. Son objet est d’étudier la genèse et les variations littéraires, cinématographiques, d’une écriture formelle de la croyance aux vampires, dans le vampire et le vampirisme, dans un corpus de textes officiels, critiques, littéraires et cinématographiques. Tous ces documents proposent un récit qui construit des formes narratives et discursives qui font croire et douter, à des fins notamment esthétiques, de plaisir, d’horreur, de peur, de fascination. C’est cette histoire que la thèse propose d’explorerVampirism is a word and a speech circulating: it is a writing that contaminates and that is transmitted from text to text, from history to history, from image to image. The vampire is an empty form, an open and dissected corpse in the great era of vampirism (the eighteenth century), and that imagination, collective or individual, has filled with fiction(s) in perspective and / or desire to “make believe” the vampires, even when it is to questioning their existence.Images come together to make the vampire and realize it, and circulate according to the “vampiric” principle of contamination. A vampiric form in the sense of a formal writing is repeated from the eighteenth and nineteenth century to the last cinematographic images, and still according to the same principle which consists in questioning the belief of a receiver: a reader or a spectator.The purpose of this thesis is mainly to highlight and study the identity of belief in eighteenth-century vampires with the viewer’s belief in front of a vampire movie. Its purpose is to study the genesis and the literary and cinematographic variations of a formal writing of the belief in vampires and vampirism, in a body of official, critical, literary and cinematographic texts. All these documents offer a narrative that constructs discursive forms that make people believe and doubt, especially for aesthetic purposes, pleasure, horror, fear, fascination. This is the story that the thesis proposes to explore
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Quitschal, Patricia Maia. "Os Diários de Vampira: a sexualidade livre e dominadora das vampiras e o tratamento dado pela mídia." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/100/100135/tde-05062014-154818/.
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Objetivo: Verificar a atribuição de um teor de negatividade para a liberação sexual feminina em produtos culturais, focando no caso do seriado estadunidense The Vampire Diaries, levando em consideração a concepção de feminino predominante na cultura ocidental e os significados que a figura da vampira adquirem dentro dela. Metodologia: Analisar a cultura de violência contra a mulher, os preconceitos que a justificam e como isso aparece de forma ideológica em produtos culturais; comparar a vampira Katherine Pierce e seu duplo, a humana Elena Gilbert, ambas do seriado The Vampire Diaries, utilizando teoria semiótica francesa; comparar as contrapartes masculinas Damon e Stefan Salvatore e verificar reações do público alvo, predominantemente feminino, diante de suas condutas; observar o tratamento dado à sexualidade feminina em diversos produtos culturais. Resultados: A mensagem ideológica velada no seriado é de que a vampira Katherine e sua sexualidade exuberante representam o mal, enquanto a humana Elena e sua conduta recatada representam o bem. Entretanto, a conduta sexual violenta de Damon Salvatore não é representada como algo passível de punições. Conclusão: O presente estudo conclui que a sexualidade feminina é apresentada de forma negativa no seriado, e que isso é um reflexo de valores arraigados na cultura ocidental. A conduta sexual é, de modo geral, utilizada como um dado definidor do caráter de personagens femininos em produtos culturais, sendo que a atividade sexual \"excessiva\" predominantemente acarreta punições.Purpose: Determining the attribution of a level of negativity towards sexual liberation of women in cultural products, focusing on the case of the U.S. series The Vampire Diaries, considering the prevailing conception of women in Western culture and the meanings that the figure of the female vampire acquires within it. Methods: Analyzing the culture of violence against women, the prejudices justifying it and how it is displayed in ideological ways in cultural products; comparing the vampire Katherine Pierce and her doppelganger, the human Elena Gilbert, both of the series The Vampire Diaries, using French semiotic theory; comparing the male counterparts Damon and Stefan Salvatore and verifying reactions by the target audience, predominantly female, in the face of their conduct; observing the treatment given to female sexuality in different cultural products. Results: The ideological message veiled on the series is that the vampire Katherine and her exuberant sexuality represent the evil, while the human Elena and her modest demeanor represent the good. However, Damon Salvatore\'s violent sexual conduct is not represented as something liable to punishment. Conclusions: This study concludes that female sexuality is presented in a negative way on the show, and that is a reflection of values entrenched in Western culture. Sexual conduct is in general used as a defining of the character in female characters in cultural products, and the \"excessive\" sexual activity predominantly entails punishment.
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Carvalho, Fernanda Sousa. "Sexuality and gender in contemporary women's Gothic fiction - Angela Carter's and Anne Rice's Vampires: Angela Carter's and Anne Rice's Vampires." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-7SHFJY.
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In this thesis, I provide an analysis of Angela Carter's and Anne Rice's works based on their depiction of vampires. My corpus is composed by Carter's short stories 'The Loves of Lady Purple' and 'The Lady of the House of Love' and by Rice's novels The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. My analysis of this corpus is based on four approaches: a comparison between Carter's and Rice's works, supported by their common use of vampire characters; an investigation of how this use consists of a particular way of exploring gothic elements, related to the contemporary context; an identification of the mechanisms through which this use of vampire characters conveys discourses on the issues of sexuality and gender that take in the 1970s and 1980s; and an investigation of the possibility for the vampire characters to express such discourses, in terms of their symbolisms. I demonstrate here that Rice and Carter explore the potential of abjection of the vampire and the subversive potential of a gothic representation of life experiences to question and subvert in their works patriarchal ideologies about the issues of sexuality and gender. This strategy of questioning and subversion is informed by the debates about these two issues in late-twentieth century, a period marked by the development of theories about sexuality and gender, by political movements towards sexual and gender freedom, and by the eminence of the AIDS epidemic that influenced the direction followed by these theories and movements. My analysis of Carter's and Rice's works demonstrates that, although they are different in their focuses and concerns, both authors represent, through their vampires, discourses against the imposition of gender roles and of sexualities by patriarchal societies, reflecting the contemporary view of gender and sexuality as constructed, complex, and fluid categories. In this sense, their works can be said to characterize a contemporary gothic fiction written by women.xxx
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Christensen, Shannon Elizabeth. "History of Prostitution/Vampires in the American Republic." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153867.
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The two papers that comprise this masters portfolio are "The History of Prostitution by William Sanger as a Basis for Modern Studies of Prostitution" and "Vampires in American Newspapers: 1820-1840" "The History of Prostitution by William Sanger as a Basis for Modern Studies of Prostitution" examines how Sanger's work has influenced the historiography of prostitution in New York City. This paper begins by examining William Sanger as an individual, and demonstrates how despite claiming to be objective, his work is clouded by his role as a resident physician on Blackwell's Island. His work is unique because it can be read as a primary and secondary text: the first half of his work is a discussion of the history of prostitution and its causes, while the latter half is documented quantitiative research. The main argument of this paper is that historians should read his text as a primary source: both his quantitative research and reproduced history is inherently biased, making many of his claims difficult to use as a secondary source. This paper points out several historians who cite him, and either do not point out his historical bias and inaccuracies, or in several cases miscite his arguments. "Vampires in American Newspapers: 1820-1840" examines American newspaper articles published between 1820 and 1840 that contain references to vampires. The authors of these articles engaged with vampires for multiple reasons and for multiple purposes: they refer to vampires as literal monsters (such as giant squid), monsters who disguised themselves as men, politicians, and foreigners. This paper demonstrates that "vampires" existed in the United States, and that they had a distinct American nature.
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Margetts, Emma. "From cannibal to consumer: The shifting poetic metaphor of the vampire." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2007. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/253.
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The Vampire is a parasitic demon who has ·haunted humanity for thousands of years. Feeding off the living, this bloodsucking, animated corpse could generally be said to embody human fears surrounding death and sexuality. Appearing in a variety of mythologies around the world, the vampire has been connected with excessive and/or repressed desire, the subconscious and dark side of human nature. The vampire and associated metaphors' reflect social boundaries and express forbidden desires, in particular, when the figure appeared in late-Gothic literature of the 18th-century novel. The transitions occurring within the vampire's iconography over the last 200 years of Western history offer us a fascinating mirror through which to examine social change. This thesis presents a brief historic outline of the path sketched out by this imaginary avatar from its departure in folklore and superstition into 18th and 19th-century poetry and literature appearing as a preternatural/over and then finally arriving on the screen as the iconic villain/hero of the 20th century. Focusing on issues of gender, sexuality, capitalism and desire, this thesis draws the, conclusion that the 21st -century vampire is a consumer, lost in an insatiable and disorientating bloodlust of materialist desire. Through exploring the lineage of patriarchal terror and vampiricism endemic within our global consumer consciousness and behaviour, this thesis draws an analogy between the attitudes towards, and surrounding, the woman's body and the body of our Earth, the Mother. It asserts that the ideologies of desire explicit within late-capitalist society expose an erotic libidinal economy, which perceives both women and the Earth as commodity, there to be possessed and consumed. Accompanying this thesis paper is a creative project called .The Gothic Opera: A Symphony in Terror, This hybrid performance incorporated dance, aerial theatre and opera in a collaborative theatre event involving over thirty artists. The Gothic Opera traces a historical route through the shifting poetic metaphors of the vampire over the last two hundred years of western cultural change. The Gothic Opera explores, through the medium of performance, many of the characters and theoretical ideas discussed within this thesis paper.
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Kemp, Kurt Alan. "Anne Rice's vampire aesthetic : redefining the vampire tradition /." View online, 1994. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998858840.pdf.
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Jarrot, Sabine. "Vampires, de l'Autre à un autre soi-même : l'étude des mutations des caractéristiques du vampire littéraire du XIXe au XXe siècle comme appréhension de l'évolution de la société." Besançon, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999BESA1001.
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Ce travail sur corpus romanesque s'inscrit dans le cadre de la sociologie de l'art et de la culture. Il s'agit d'une comparaison entre des caractéristiques du vampire (narration, statut social, apparence physique, moyens de protection et de destruction) littéraire de la fin du XIXe siècle avec celles du XXe siècle. Cette comparaison révèle que, sur cette période, le vampire s'humanise. Une analyse sociologique de l'évolution de ces caractéristiques du vampire illustre que littérature et société évoluent dans le même sens. Un texte d'une époque s'imprègne effectivement de l'état d'esprit et des faits majeurs de cette époque. Je postule donc qu'on peut lire le social dans les textes romanesques. L'humanisation du vampire avec l'identification concomitante du lecteur pose deux questions : est-ce que la société accepte mieux aujourd'hui les différences ? Est-ce que l'homme moderne est devenu monstrueux ?This work on fantastic corpus lies within the scope of the sociology of art and culture. It deals with the comparison between the vampire's features (narration, social status, physical appearance, ways of protection and destruction) in the literature of the end of the 19th century and those of the 20th century. Tffls comparison shows that, during this period, the vampire has become more human. A sociological analysis of the evolution of the vampire's features makes it clear that literature and society evolve in the same direction actually a text from a given era becomes imbued with the state of mind and the major facts of this given era. I thus postulate that social matters can be found in the fantastic texts. The humanisation of the vampire with the concomitant identircation of the reader leads to two questions : does today society put up with the differences in a better way ? Has modern man become a monster ?
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Crai, Eugen. "The vampires of Transylvania : ethnic accommodation and legal pluralism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ64267.pdf.
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Khatib, Sami. "The Drive of Capital: Of Monsters, Vampires and Zombies." Universität Leipzig, 2021. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A73698.
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Valls, de Gomis Estelle. "Le vampire au fil des siècles : enquête autour d'un mythe /." Coudray-Macouard : Cheminements, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400892612.
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Rosa, Cristiano de Jesus. "As metamorfoses do vampiro na trilogia de Lúcio Cardoso." Pós-Graduação em Letras, 2014. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5765.
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Comparative literature enables to create the most different modes of reading from a perception of the world quite keen. In a certain way, it can connect a particular literary text to another by means of their similarities and differences, which depends on the capacity of each comparative man, since the individual guides its reading through a socio historical context, in which it is inserted. Therefore, in this work we undertake a possible closeness between Dracula, of the book homonym (1897), by Bram Stoker and Inácio, which travels over the trilogy of Lúcio Cardoso, Inácio (1944), O enfeitiçado
(1954) and Baltazar (unfinished). The Cardoso s character brings the vamp essence and malevolent of Stoker, but it is not a vampire in the restrictive sense of the word. Inácio has its particularities, which are essential to understand Dracula better. So, because it is a comparative study, it resorts as the theoretical basis the Literatura comparada (2010), by Sandra Nitrini and A intertextualidade (2008), by Tiphaine Samoyault. In relation to the concept of monstrosity, História dos vampiros: autópsia de um mito (2005), by Claude Lecouteux, Monstros e monstruosidades na literatura (2007), organized by Julio Jeha, "A cultura dos monstros: sete teses" (2000), by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, and Da natureza dos monstros (1998), Luiz Nazario, among other texts, which have contributed significantly to the development of this research.A literatura comparada possibilita criar os mais diferentes modos de leitura a partir de uma percepção de mundo bastante aguçada. De certa forma, pode-se ligar um determinado texto literário a outro por meio de suas semelhanças e diferenças, o que depende da capacidade de cada comparatista, já que o indivíduo norteia sua leitura através de um contexto sócio histórico, no qual está inserido. Assim, neste trabalho se empreende uma possível aproximação entre Drácula, do livro homônimo (1897), de Bram Stoker e Inácio, o qual transita pela trilogia de Lúcio Cardoso, Inácio (1944), O enfeitiçado (1954) e Baltazar (inacabada). O personagem cardosiano traz a essência vampiresca e maléfica do de Stoker, mas não é um vampiro no sentido restrito da palavra. Inácio possui suas particularidades, as quais são imprescindíveis para que entendamos melhor Drácula. Para tanto, por ser um estudo comparativo, recorreu-se como embasamento teórico a Literatura comparada (2010), de Sandra Nitrini e A intertextualidade (2008), de Tiphaine Samoyault. Em relação ao conceito de monstruosidade, História dos vampiros: autópsia de um mito (2005), de Claude Lecouteux, Monstros e monstruosidades na literatura (2007), organizado por Julio Jeha, "A cultura dos monstros: sete teses" (2000), de Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, e Da natureza dos monstros (1998), de Luiz Nazário, entre outros textos, que contribuíram significativamente para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa.
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Stephanou, Aspasia. "Our blood, ourselves : the symbolics of blood in vampire texts and vampire communities." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3644.
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My thesis examines the ways in which blood is represented in vampire novels, films, and vampire communities. I locate my thesis within a postmodern framework that encompasses a diverse range of critical approaches such as postmodern, feminist and materialist theories, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and histories of medicine and ideas. The mixture of high and low status texts selected examine the ways identity, self-fashioning and the body are constructed through their use of a symbolics of blood. The first chapter examines the changing meanings of blood in vampire texts from the nineteenth century to the present through the discourses of medical science and technology. While blood is shown to be an important fluid in biomedicine, at the same time it conjures up associations with identity and corporeality. The second chapter examines consumption as a trope to define and control the female vampire. Through the analysis of literal and figurative acts of cannibalistic consumption, eating and incorporation in vampire literature, the chapter seeks to address female appetite, disease and identity. The third chapter examines the use of blood and postmodern self-fashioning in vampire communities in order to expose the various meanings of real or symbolic blood within postmodern culture. I conclude by addressing issues and ideas that my thesis has brought to the fore and which can be explored further.
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Tso, Wing-bo, and 曹穎寶. "Representation of female vampires in Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and horror films." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29940412.
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Reynolds, Emily. "Screams, Vampires, Werewolves, and Autographs: An Exploration of the Twilight Phenomenon." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2908.pdf.
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Johansson, Fredrik. "From Conqueror to Rebel Without a Cause : The Change in the Symbolic Function of Vampires, from Bram Stoker’s Imperialistic Dracula to Anne Rice’s Anarchistic The Vampire Lestat." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2572.
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In this essay I look at the change in the symbolic function of vampires, and to see this I use
Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat. My argument is that the
difference between Dracula and Lestat is basically that they represent different ideologies,
with Dracula being an imperialist, and Lestat being an anarchist. The difference is shown by
taking examples from the text of the two novels, and also taking information about the
ideologies, and seeing if the actions and thoughts of the characters match the suggested
ideology.
First, the essay looks at Dracula and his connection with imperialism, and then it turns to
Lestat and his connection with anarchism.
The conclusion is that the facts derived from the novels make it quite clear where the
political hearts of the vampires lie.
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Paolucci, Peter Leonard. "Re-reading the vampire from John Polidori to Anne Rice structures of impossibility among three narrative variations in the vampiric tradition /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ56254.pdf.
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Graham, Brita Marie. "Buffy at play tricksters, deconstruction, and chaos at work in the whedonverse /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/graham/GrahamB0507.pdf.
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Marigny, Jean. "Le Vampire dans la littérature anglo-saxone /." Paris : Didier, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34781156x.
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Chan, Pui Nam. "Empowerment and vampire literature: an examination of female vampire characters as a cultural response to oppression." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/475.
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Vampire and Vampirism have raised the interests of the public from 1700s. Vampire is being used as a lens to discuss social issues in the real world. However, it is seen that there are limited works discussing the situation of coloured communities. This project is to examine female vampire figures in select works and evaluate the extent to which those figures are able to represent an empowered image of women of colour. To achieve this aim, textual analysis will be used to examine classical vampire literature, such as Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" (1872/2003), Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "Luella Miller" (1902/2014), Bram Stoker's Dracula (2007), Anne O'Brien Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1976/2010) and L. A. Banks's Minion (2003). There will be interdisciplinary reading of the social situation and behavior of the colored alongside with textual analysis of Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories: A Novel (1991) and Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling: A Novel (2005). I will conclude that vampire literature has the ability and potentiality to reflect social behavior and environment of the coloured, especially coloured women. The contribution of this thesis is to demonstrate that reflecting the situation of the coloured can be a new area for vampire literature to explore in the future development and evolution of vampire literature as a genre. This is also breakthrough to the function of vampire literature as a genre because on top of appearing as entertainment and reflection of society, vampire literature is able to serve social function to empower and enlighten readers by raising their awareness to social issues that people are used to neglect.
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Alnwick, Marie. "Translating the Buffyverse: Examining French fan response to "Buffy contre les vampires"." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27568.
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Fictional texts represent a particular challenge for translators due to their use of expressive language. The translation of audiovisual texts in particular is complicated by various institutional and technical constraints. As such, assessing the quality of translated televisual fiction is a complex undertaking that requires an approach more flexible than that prescribed by proponents of textual-linguistic models.
This thesis looks at translation quality from another angle, that of audience reception. As a case study, this thesis investigates the reception of the French dubbed translation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a popular American television show characterized by its frequent use of illocutionary elements, including wordplay, neologisms and cultural references. One interpretive community's response to the French dubbed translation is examined through the document analysis of a French chat room thread dedicated to the dubbed version of the show.
In order to check the legitimacy of fans' claims, a translated episode of Buff the Vampire Slayer is assessed, with posters' comments informing the evaluation criteria. In particular, the target text is evaluated according to its treatment of illocutionary strategies. The results of the document analysis and the translation evaluation are compared to give a multidimensional perspective on the quality of the target text. The evaluation highlights the prevailing tendency of the target text to omit illocutionary elements in favour of neutral paraphrase, and the document analysis suggests that this tendency may in part account for the chat viewers' largely negative response to Buffy the Vampire Slayer's French dubbed translation.
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Abbott, Stacey. "'Up to date with a vengeance' : modern vampires from Dracula to Blade." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401222.
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Renoult, Nicolas. "La trahison des apparences dans Les vampires et Fantômas de Louis Feuillade /." Cergy-Pontoise : Université de Cergy-Pontoise, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb401299132.
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Graham, Chelsea. "Defanged and Desirable: An Examination of Violence and the Lesbian Vampire Narrative." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460127837.
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Sardenberg, Thiago Silva. "The all-seeing mirror: reflecting on vampires as allegories in socio-culturally sensitive literary works." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4730.
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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a figura do vampiro na literatura como poderosa ferramenta de leitura e interpretação dos medos e angústias que afligem um determinado espaço sociocultural. Ao olhar para a evolução do vampiro literário através dos séculos dezenove, vinte e vinte e um, notamos que cada uma de suas encarnações difere dramaticamente da anterior, e no que o vampiro é reinventado, ele engaja-se num diálogo pertinente e coerente com questões de seu próprio tempo, nunca perdendo assim sua relevância. Sua existência heterogênea, explicitada na dissertação primariamente através das obras Carmilla, de Sheridan LeFanu, Dracula, de Bram Stoker, Eu Sou a Lenda, de Richard Matheson, Entrevista com o Vampiro, de Anne Rice e Fledgling, de Octavia Butler, e as diferentes questões suscitadas em cada uma dessas obras como a sexualidade, a alteridade e o hibridismo nos levarão ao entendimento de que o vampiro pode potencialmente desempenhar importante função alegórica, tornando-se um espelho da própria humanidade através da qual se sustentaThe present work aims at looking at the figure of the vampire in literature as powerful means of reading and interpreting the fears and anxieties of a specific socio-cultural space. By looking at the evolution of the literary vampire through the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, we are able to notice that each of its incarnations dramatically differs from the previous one, and as vampires are reinvented, they engage in a coherent dialog with issues pertaining to their times, in a way that they never lose their relevance. Their heterogeneous existence, explicited in the dissertation primarily through Sheridan LeFanus Carmilla, Bram Stokers Dracula, Richard Mathesons I am Legend, Anne Rices Interview with the Vampire and Octavia Butlers Fledgling, and the different theoretical questions brought on by each of them such as sexuality, alterity and hybridity will lead us to the understanding that the vampire may potentially function as a powerful allegory as it becomes a mirror of the very humanity on which its life depends
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Keyworth, Godon David. "The undead : an unnatural history of vampires and troublesome corpses in Western Europe from the medieval period to the twentieth century /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:158192.
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McFarland, Jami. "In the Coffin of Current U.S. Assimilationist Politics: Reading the Homonormative Politics of Stephanie Meyer's Vampire." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30165.
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Broadly, this thesis is a project about queerness and its relationship to Twilight. This thesis seeks to recuperate the queer in the Twilight series. Using discourse analysis, I explore both common and uncommon representations of queerness and the popular and unpopular discourses of Twilight. While both Chapter 1 and 2 offer paranoid readings of the Twilight series and its relationship to queerness, Chapter 3 presents a reparative reading of the text. I argue that Meyer’s tame and conservative vampire, conventionally represented as being either sexually ambiguous or outside the norm, is symptomatic of a modern culture that is becoming more accepting of odd, strange, and/or queer individuals. I maintain, however, that the normalization of specific "ways of being" still comes at the expense of the constitutive “other”. Furthermore, I understand this process of normalizing a monster to be representative of a seemingly apolitical, yet violent, Faludian backlash toward queers.
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Hoenes, Eric. "The vampire as a reflector of Anglo-American culture from 1897 to the present." Thesis, Boston University, 1997. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27675.
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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Bernard, Lucie. "Les filles qui aimaient les vampires : la construction de l'identité féminine dans Twilight de Stephenie Meyer et deux autres séries romanesques de bit lit, Vampires Diaries et House of Night." Thesis, Brest, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BRES0013.
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La bit lit, un genre littéraire très contemporain qui associe le récit amoureux et le récit vampirique et s'adresse principalement à un public adolescent féminin, a acquis une visibilité mondiale avec la parution de Twilight de Stephenie Meyer en 2005. Ce mouvement littéraire reprend l'un des thèmes les plus récurrents et centraux des histoires d'amour comme des histoires de vampires occidentales : la construction du féminin, la position attribuée à ce dernier, et ses interactions avec un univers majoritairement hostile et dangereux. Or, malgré des représentations très conservatrices, voire rétrogrades, le genre connaît un succès très important en particulier auprès des jeunes femmes. Il est donc indispensable de s'interroger sur cette apparente contradiction, qui amène des auteures exclusivement de sexe féminin et un lectorat très majoritairement féminin à écrire et lire des récits sentimentaux peu féministes. Pour ce faire, la présente étude se penche sur trois oeuvres de bit lit : Twilight de Stephenie Meyer, The Vampire Diaries de L. J. Smith et House of Night de P. C. et Kristin Cast. Elle s'appuie sur trois approches, les études culturelles et l'étude de la réception, la narratologie, puis les études de genre. Les influences littéraires qui nourrissent les romans, le mode de lecture qu'ils encouragent et les choix narratifs qu'ils déploient sont analysés afin de comprendre ce qu'ils mettent en scène : la rencontre entre le sujet féminin et une conception patriarcale du mondeSupernatural romance (or 'bit lit' in French) is a contemporary literary genre which associates sen-timental and vampiric stories and is primarily aimed at a female teenage audience. It acquired global visibility in 2005 with the publication of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight. This literary movement takes up one of the most recurring and central themes of Western love stories and vampire stories alike: the construction of the feminine, of its positioning and its interactions with an essentially hos-tile and dangerous environment. Despite very conservative and even reactionary representations, the genre has met a huge success among young women. It is thus necessary to question this ap-parent contradiction: why do exclusively female writers and mostly female readers write and read sentimental stories that can be qualified at best as 'hardly feminist'? To do so, the current study focuses on three supernatural romance series: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith and House of Night by P. C. and Kristin Cast. It relies on three approaches: cultural and reception studies, narratology and gender studies. The literary influences that inform the nov-els, the reading mode they incite and the narrative choices they unfold are analyzed in order to understand how they stage the encounter between the feminine subject and a patriarchal worldview
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Fredriksson, Frida. "Vampires - “Culture’s Sexy Drug of Choice” and “Dangerous Warnings” : A comparison of the depiction of vampires in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight and Bram Stoker’s Dracula connected to genre, narration, and readership." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-48232.
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This essay discusses the differences in depiction of vampires between Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). By using examples from the novels, the essay exemplifies how genre, narration, and readership affect the description of vampires within the two novels. The essay bases its discussion on genre on the premise that the vampire genre is in fact a genre to itself, but one with a broad variation. Furthermore, the essay briefly discusses the shift within the vampire genre, where vampires during the last centuries have gone from dangerous and scary to appealing and romantic. A connection is made between the shift within the vampire genre and Anne Rice’s vampire fiction. The discussion on genre shows how the romance, fantasy, and horror genres affect the depiction of vampires.Denna uppsats diskuterar hur vampyrer i verken Twilight (Meyer, 2005) och Dracula (Stoker, 1897) skildras på olika sätt. Skillnader i beskrivningarna illustreras med hjälp av exempel från de båda böckerna och berör genre, berättarperspektiv och läsarkrets. Diskussionen i uppsatsen baseras på att vampyrgenren är en egen genre med många olika beskrivningar av vampyren. Uppsatsen berör även förändringen i genren och lyfter kort hur vampyren från början tolkas som farlig och skrämmande för att sedan framstå som attraktiv och romantisk. En koppling görs också mellan förändringen i vampyrgenren och Anne Rices vampyrnoveller. Vidare i diskussionen kring genre berörs även hur genrerna romantik, fantasy och skräck påverkar skildringen av vampyrerna i de nämnda verken.
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Paquiot, Alethea. "Images de la transgression : Carmilla (1872), Dracula (1897) et les vampires d'Anne Rice." Thesis, Le Havre, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LEHA0028.
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Devenu célèbre sous les traits de Dracula, le vampire est un monstre révélateur et résilient qui s'est fait archétype incontournable de la culture populaire et dont l'existence diégétique précède le roman de Bram Stoker. Du folklore à la fiction et de l'ombre à la lumière, son évolution est représentative des sociétés et des époques dans lequel il revient à la vie. A la fois transgressifs et normatifs, ses avatars jouent un rôle cathartique en incarnant le refus des lois humaines naturelles et divines, mais aussi la réitération de ces règles et la création de canons littéraires. Cette étude diachronique centrée sur "Carmilla" (1872), "Dracula" (1897) et les vampires d'Anne Rice démontre que leurs aventures invitent à réfléchir autant aux conséquances des fautes qu'à la validité des normes, à l'essence de la nature et des failles humaine et à la fonction libératrice des personnages de fiction et particulièrement des monstresKnown to most as Dracula, the vampire is revealing and resilient monster whose diegetic existence predates Stoker's novel, and that has become a key figure of popular culture. From folklore to fiction and from shadow to ligjhte, its evolution is indicative of the times and societies in wich it return to life. Equally transgressive and normative, its avatars play a cathartic role aas they epitomize rejection of human, natural and divine laws, but also the reiteration of the rules and the creation of literary canons. This diachronic study focused on "Carmilla" (1872), "Dracula" (1897) and Anne Rice's vampires shows that their adventures induce reflection on both the consequences of wrongdoing and the validity of norms, on the essence of human nature and hubris, and the liberating fucntion of fictional characters, particulary monsters
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Sharoni, Josephine. "Vampires and ape men : a Lacanian reading of British fantasy fiction, 1886-1914." Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/47511/.
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This thesis offers a close reading from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis of a selection of literary texts published in Britain in the thirty years leading to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. These works, belonging to different genres – science fiction, gothic and the adventure or quest – are loosely categorized as ‘fantasy’ literature as opposed to the realistic novel or short story. My contention is that it is only in conjunction with a consideration of Jacques Lacan’s ‘return to Freud’, that is, his re-examination of the texts of Sigmund Freud, and the work of contemporary theorists writing in Lacan’s wake, such as Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar, that the significance of the fanciful plots and devices appearing in the texts emerges. My starting point is the resemblance which the plot of each of these works bears to that of Freud’s Totem and Taboo, published in 1913, which tells of the killing of a primal father. What might be labelled as the return of the primal father, a violent and obscene figure who must be killed again (whereas for Freud this was a unique event which occurred at the beginning of human time), appears in a period when ‘modern’ Britain is coming into a being, that is, an industrialized, urbanized, literate democracy. It can be seen that the re-appearance of this evil primal father figure follows the demise of traditional forms of authority of the agrarian society, that of the ‘everyday’ father, the aristocracy and the church, and concurrently, the increasing dominance of scientific discourse and technology. In this and in further ways which will be discussed in the thesis, the texts bring to light the function of apparently obsolete symbolic frameworks and the corresponding deficiency in modern paradigms of knowledge, in particular, the blind spots of science. This reading thereby diverges sharply from those typical of existing literary criticism in that as opposed to being read in terms of and pertaining to the reconstructed context of a past era, the texts are seen as unfolding common concerns in regard to the modernisation of Britain, thus rendering them still relevant today.
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Burke, Maura Dianne. "Relationship Dynamics in the Films Twilight and New Moon: An Ideological Analysis." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1283538430.
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Gilbert, Marie-Pascale. "Le vampirisme dans Héloise d'Anne Hébert /." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61898.
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Hain, James. "Night Fever." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1341508193.
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Gagnon-Langlais, Mireille. "Liens immortels, création littéraire suivie d'une analyse portant sur la réactualisation des mythèmes de la littérature vampirique /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2006. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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Thèse (M.E.L.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2006.La p. de t. porte en outre: Mémoire présenté à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi comme exigence partielle de la maîtrise en études littéraires. CaQCU Bibliogr.: f. 158-168. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU
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Harper, Gavin. "Being a Thing Immortal: Shakespeare, Young Adult Culture, and the Motifs of the Undead." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19707.
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In the early decades of the twenty-first century William Shakespeare’s works and figure began to arise in Young Adult adaptations and transnarratives focusing upon the undead. These works of werewolf, vampire, and zombie fiction represented Shakespeare as a creature of the undead or as a heroic savior. I argue that the figure of Shakespeare appears as an ambivalent symbol of corrupt authority or redeeming power within these YA undead adaptations because we are unable to reconcile Shakespeare’s centrality in literary studies with our twenty-first century social, political, and moral ideals such as multiculturalism, gender equality, and race relations. Essentially, these undead adaptations manifest the figure of Shakespeare as a crisis of our own faith in the “dead white European male” model of authority.
Many of the works offer a rather dim view of the author and the cultural authority that he once represented. And the image these YA narratives conjure is often that of a zombie Shakespeare who is both immortal and rotting. Or alternatively, the absolute power of a vampire Shakespeare: cold, white, male, feeding upon the blood of the living. I argue that the YA protagonists must destroy the corrupt authority figures who hold power over them to create a “new world order” in these narratives, and Shakespeare’s position as “the author of authors” serves as the prime target.
Alternatively, the contrasting narratives place Shakespeare in opposition to the undead hordes that are attacking humanity. In these novels and films, the figure of Shakespeare is an iteration of viable knowledge and authority solving not only his era’s problems, but those of our own, as well. I argue that these narratives seek to renew and add to Shakespeare’s authority through a metaphor of undead hybridity. By analyzing the werewolf or zombie-hunter in both film and literature, I demonstrate that many narratives utilize Shakespeare as a hybrid of both historical/literary authority and our own modern ideals. Rather than simply wolf or slayer, the Shakespeare of these narratives is both early modern authority and twenty-first century social/political hero.
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Riley, C. L. "Monstrous predatory vampires and beneficent fairy-godmothers : British post-war colonial development in Africa." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1389424/.
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This thesis explores the concept of colonial development, as enacted by the Attlee government during the immediate post-war period. It focuses on Africa, reflecting the ‘second colonial occupation’ of the continent during this period, and examines both economic and social welfare development initiatives. Post-war colonial development in the British African territories had two main aims: firstly, to increase the production of raw materials, to aid the reconstruction of the metropole and earn dollars on the international markets; and secondly, to improve the standard of living among colonial populations. This thesis explores the contradictions inherent in these two types of development. It can be seen that, although Britain was largely unsuccessful in this period with economic development programmes in Africa, it had some modest success with colonial social-welfare initiatives. The thesis also examines the extent to which Arthur Creech Jones, Colonial Secretary 1946-1950, shaped colonial policy in Africa based on his Fabian beliefs. It examines how far British colonial policy in this period can be characterised as ‘socialist’, and how far metropolitan and colonial populations were separated by narratives of progress and development in this period. This thesis also argues that colonial development in Africa in this period was shaped, rhetorically, ideologically and pragmatically, by the context of British reconstruction under the Marshall Plan. Colonial development was an arena in which Britain’s relationships with western Europe and the United States (the ‘special relationship’) could be explored, strengthened and sometimes challenged. The incipient Cold War imbued British policy in Africa with specific tensions, particularly relating to American ‘anti-imperialism’ and the threat of Soviet communist expansion across the continent. Colonial development, and the negotiation of such against the pressures exerted by Britain’s international political role, can thus be used as a lens, through which to view British foreign policy under the Attlee government.