Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933 9781571135339

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Автор: Butler Erik
Название: Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933
ISBN: 9781571135339
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
Издательство: Camden House (NY)
Классификация:

Кино, кинематография

Литературоведение: с 1500 до 1800 г.

ISBN-10: 1571135332
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 238
Вес: 0.35 кг.
Дата издания: 22.12.2011
Серия: Studies in german literature, linguistics, and culture
Язык: English
Размер: 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.37 cm
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: Cultural transformations in europe, 1732-1933
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: 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 vampires many and often apparently contradictory forms.

Erik Butler holds a PhDfrom Yale University and has taught at Emory University and Swarthmore College. His publications include The Bellum Gramaticale and the Rise of European Literature (2010) and a translation with commentary of Regrowth (Vidervuks) by the Soviet Jewish author Der Nister (2011).

Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933, Butler Erik