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Agrarian Rituals and the Future Sublime [PDF]
, 2018 This paper considers Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, published in 1897, as a window into techno-scientific and sociocultural developments of the fin-de-siècle era, ranging from blood transfusion and virology up to communication technology and brain research,
Roncken, P.A.
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Tamed Monsters and Human Problems in Cinema’s Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2019 What can the taming of the monster reveal about its construction and the potential and limits of change? Modernist, individualist qualities of Western culture and society have shaped the construction and deconstruction of the monster in popular culture ...
P. Stuart Robinson
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Everyman with fangs: The acceptance of the modern vampire [PDF]
, 2007 The vampire, an enduring demon from the European middle ages has through the course of the 20th century undergone a journey of transformation. The journey of the beast describes a circle, starting and ending with the depiction of the vampire as a ...
Cardow, Andrew
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Strain Engineering of Magnetoresistance and Magnetic Anisotropy in CrSBr
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Biaxial compressive strain significantly enhances magnetoresistance and critical saturation fields in thin flakes of the 2D magnet CrSBr, along all three crystallographic axes. First‐principles calculations link these effects to strain‐induced increases in exchange interactions and magnetic anisotropy.
Eudomar Henríquez‐Guerra +19 more
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Augustin Calmet and the Construction of the Eighteenth-Century Vampire
Central Europe, 2021 This article examines the role played by Augustin Calmet, a Benedictine, in the construction of the vampire. In the eighteenth century, Calmet embarked upon a thorough examination of the evidence for the existence of reported vampires in the lands of ...
Ciaran Craig
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eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2017 Notes on Contributors to eTropic 16(1), Special Issue 'Tropical Liminal: Urban Vampires and Other Blood-sucking Monstrosities'
eTropic Editorial Assistant
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The Thousand-Year Kingdom: Historical Russia in Russian vampire TV series
Шаги, 2023 The paper examines the phenomenon of the vampire «new wave» of 2021 – еarly 2022 in the context of cultural policy in Russia. The author focuses on the fact that compared to foreign TV series, the image of a vampire in Russian series is strongly ...
E. Yu. Nagaeva
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The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics system: enabling high-contrast imaging on solar-system scales [PDF]
, 2015 The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) instrument is a multipurpose high-contrast imaging platform designed for the discovery and detailed characterization of exoplanetary systems and serves as a testbed for high-contrast imaging ...
Baba, N. +37 more
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Crystal Engineering of Reticular Materials for Gas‐ and Liquid‐Phase Hydrocarbon Separation
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Crystal engineering enables systematic study of structure/function relationships as exemplified by pore engineering of reticular sorbents, including porous coordination networks and covalent organic frameworks. This review assesses such studies applied across the full scope of industrially relevant hydrocarbon separations to provide insight into how ...
Xia Li +2 more
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Virtue as Adventure and Excess: Intertextuality, Masculinity, and Desire in the Twilight Series
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2013 The vampire is still primarily a literary figure. The vampires we have seen on TV and cinema in recent years are all based on literary models. The vampire is at the same time a popular cultural icon and a figure that, especially women writers, use to ...
Claudia Lindén
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