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Carmilla: From Lesbian Vampire to Lesbian and a Vampire [PDF]
, 2023 Carmilla is a classic piece of vampire literature and one of the first piece of queer vampire media. Over the years and adaptions, the character in with the story gets its name has gone through a change, from being a lesbian vampire to a character who is
MacIsaac, Lillian
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, 2021 Nostalgia (nostos ‘return home’ plus algia ‘longing’), first diagnosed and named in the seventeenth century, was a disease that, as Svetlana Boym points out, became less curable and more mysterious in its pathology as time passed, resistant to reason and
Howell, Amanda, Amanda Howell
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Text Matters, 2016 We all know vampires. Count Dracula and Nosferatu, maybe Blade and Angel, or Stephenie Meyer’s sparkling beau, Edward Cullen. In fact, the Euro-American vampire myth has long become one of the most reliable and bestselling fun-rides the entertainment ...
Corinna Lenhardt
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, 2023 The discussion concerning the etymology of the word vampire has continued for more than a century now, and it has produced many more hypotheses than can be reasonably examined here. This paper only reviews the most plausible ones, but it also contains a discussion of the phonetic, morphological, semantic, historical, and cultural-historical constraints,
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Adolescent television viewing and belief in vampires [PDF]
, 2006 A total of 1133 13-15-year-old pupils in six secondary schools in South Wales were invited to complete questions concerning vampire belief and amount of television watching.
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Scandinavian Transformations of Dracula
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2020 A couple of years after the publication of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire novel Dracula, different versions were published in one Icelandic and two Swedish newspapers. The Icelandic version could be a translation of the shorter Swedish version.
Ingmar Söhrman
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Assessing the potential impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of a rabies virus vector.
PLoS ONE, 2018 Common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) occur throughout much of South America to northern México. Vampire bats have not been documented in recent history in the United States, but have been documented within about 50 km of the U.S.
Mark A Hayes, Antoinette J Piaggio
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Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2020 As a continuation of existing studies, this article tries to show that the connection between the vampire character in fiction and the phenomenon of the migratory body is not accidental: the literary motif of the undead bloodsucker is namely in itself ...
Clemens Ruthner
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The Corporeality of the Domestic Vampire in the Context of Soviet Nostalgia
Corpus Mundi, 2023 The article deals with the analysis of the corporeality of Russian vampires, naturalized in the domestic serial cinema at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century. The vampire was a marginal character in the Russian cultural tradition of the
Sophia V. Tikhonova
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Social Grooming in Bats: Are Vampire Bats Exceptional? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Evidence for long-term cooperative relationships comes from several social birds and mammals. Vampire bats demonstrate cooperative social bonds, and like primates, they maintain these bonds through social grooming.
Gerald Carter, Lauren Leffer
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