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The Postmillennial Vampire - Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Postmillennial Vampire - Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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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 Rene Girard associates the sacred with a communal
violence that sacred ritual controls and contains. As traditional
formations of the sacred fragment, the vampire comes to embody and
enact this 'sacred violence' through complex blood bonds that
relate the vampire to the human in wholly new ways in the new
millennium.
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