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Tropical Liminal: Urban Vampires & Other Blood-Sucking Monstrosities
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2017 Vampires and other blood-sucking monstrous beings constitute some of the most famous myths, legends and stories that continue to haunt contemporary societies.
Anita Lundberg, Lennie Geerlings
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Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2022 Produced as a spin-off of The Vampire Diaries (Julie Plec, The CW, 2009‑2017), The Originals (The CW, 2013-2018) depicts the return of the Mikaelsons, the white Nordic vampires Elijah, Rebekah and Klaus, to New Orleans.
Maureen Lepers
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Vampires and werewolves: Rewriting religious and racial stereotyping in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series [PDF]
, 2012 Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series (2005–8) demonstrates a strong connection with the theology, cultural practices and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), of which Meyer is an active member. One of the strongest ways in which
Ledvinka, Georgina
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Diffraction-limited polarimetric imaging of protoplanetary disks and mass-loss shells with VAMPIRES [PDF]
, 2020 Both the birth and death of a stellar system are areas of key scientific importance. Whether it's understanding the process of planetary formation in a star's early years, or uncovering the cause of the enormous mass-loss that takes place during a star's
Cvetojevic, Nick +6 more
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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.
Picton, Laura +2 more
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The Insidious Poison of Degeneration: Vampires in Czech Decadence [PDF]
Slovo a Smysl, 2015 The article examines vampires in Czech Decadent literature as polyvalent symbols that stand simultaneously for culture as a vampiric force and for decadence as a poisonous and infectious phenomenon.
Kirsten Lodge
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Bat bites and rabies: the Canadian scene
FACETS, 2020 Bats are susceptible to rabies. Although bats may appear to be asymptomatic carriers of rabies for a few days, eventually they fall ill to the viral infection and die.
M. Brock Fenton +2 more
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Fetishism in Dracula: sex, irony, blood and the un-dead
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesVampires abhor various repellents, which the text of Dracula treats as fetishes. Vampires mysteriously shun garlic, roses, ash wood, and the crucifix. They need their home dirt and human blood.
Timo Airaksinen
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Audition in vampire bats, Desmodus rotundus [PDF]
, 1990 1. Within the tonotopic organization of the inferior colliculus two frequency ranges are well represented: a frequency range within that of the echolocation signals from 50 to 100 kHz, and a frequency band below that of the echolocation sounds, from 10 ...
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Vampire and Empire: Dracula and the Imperial Gaze
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2017 Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula was enmeshed in the discourse of British Imperialism, both in its composition and its reception. Stoker drew on Imperial-era studies to lend his narrative verisimilitude, including material on history, folklore, and ...
Stu Burns
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