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The Vampire - Origins of a European Myth (Hardcover)
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The Vampire - Origins of a European Myth (Hardcover)
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"An illuminating contribution to scholarship on the vampire
figure."-Slavic Review Even before Bram Stoker immortalized
Transylvania as the homeland of his fictional Count Dracula, the
figure of the vampire was inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in
the popular imagination. Drawing on a wealth of previously
neglected sources, this book offers a fascinating account of how
vampires-whose various incarnations originally emerged from folk
traditions from all over the world-became so strongly identified
with Eastern Europe. It demonstrates that the modern conception of
the vampire was born in the crucible of the Enlightenment,
embodying a mysterious, Eastern otherness that stood opposed to
Western rationality. From the Prologue: From Original Sin to
Eternal Life For a broad contemporary public, the vampire has
become a star, a media sensation from Hollywood. Bestselling
authors such as Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer continue
to fire the imaginations of young and old alike, and bloodsuckers
have achieved immortality through films like Dracula, Interview
with a Vampireand Twilight. It is no wonder that, in the teenage
bedrooms of our globalized world, vampires even steal the show from
Harry Potter. They have long since been assigned individual
personalities and treated with sympathy. They may possess
superhuman powers, but they are also burdened by their immortality
and have to learn to come to terms with their craving for blood.
Whereas the Southeast European vampire, discovered in the 1730s,
underwent an Americanization and domestication in the media
landscape of the twentieth century, the creole zombies that first
became known through the cheap novels and horror films of the 1920s
still continue to serve as brainless horror figures. Do
bloodsuckers really exist and should we really be afraid of the
dead? These are the questions that I seek to tackle, following the
wishes of my daughter, who was ten when I started this project.
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