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NEW IMAGE OF VAMPIRE IN MODERN LITERARY WORKS
Lite: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya, 2010 Literary works cannot be separated from culture. As Abrams (1998) stated that literary works represent the universe. The relation between literary works and universe is never pure.
Valentina Widya S
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The role of past experience in development of feeding behavior in common vampire bats [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 The life history strategy of common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) suggests that learning might play a role in development of their foraging skills.
Jineth Berrío-Martínez +4 more
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The Vampire as a Model of Cultural Otherness in the Television Series “What We Do in the Shadows”
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2022 Vampires in popular culture differ from vampires in Serbian traditional culture not only in that they feed on human blood, but also in the implications of otherness they represent.
Bojan Žikić
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bioRxiv, 2020 Bats are increasingly studied as model systems for longevity and as natural hosts for some virulent viruses. Yet our ability to characterize immune mechanisms of viral tolerance and to quantify infection dynamics in wild bats is often limited by small ...
Benjamin A. Neely +5 more
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsG. M. Amza and Al. Bilciurescu’s Vampirul (The Vampire), the first vampire novel in Romania, was published in 1938, a decade after the release of the first translation of Dracula into Romanian. Instead of emulating Stoker’s bloodthirsty undead aristocrat,
Anca Simina Martin, Stefan Baghiu
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Zagadnienia Rodzajów LiterackichThe article analyzes the figure of the vampire-lust-murderer in the works of Tadeusz Konwicki, focusing on the novels Nic albo nic (1971) and Rzeka podziemna, podziemne ptaki (1984).
Jadwiga Piskorska
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Molecular and geographic analyses of vampire bat-transmitted cattle rabies in central Brazil
BMC Veterinary Research, 2008 Background Vampire bats are important rabies virus vectors, causing critical problems in both the livestock industry and public health sector in Latin America.
Santos Hamilton P +9 more
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Demon girl power: Regimes of form and force in videogames primal and Buffy the Vampire Slayer [PDF]
, 2005 'There's nothing like a spot of demon slaughter to make a girl's night'. Since the phenomenal success of the Tomb Raider (1996) videogame series a range of other videogames have used carefully branded animated female avatars.
Krzywinska, T
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Transgression of Postindustrial Dissonance and Excess: (Re)valuation of Gothicism in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive [PDF]
, 2016 The paper gives insight into the revaluation of popular Gothic aesthetics in Jim Jarmusch’s 2014 production Only Lovers Left Alive. Drawing on critical theory and the postmodern theoretical framework, the article suggests that the film transgresses ...
Stępień, Justyna
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