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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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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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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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Gender, Genre and Dracula: Joan Copjec and “Vampire Fiction”
Humanities, 2020 This article critiques a certain psychoanalytic approach both to the genre of “Vampire Fiction” and the “anxiety” it induces. Joan Copjec’s claim is that these are founded on “nothing”, genre and affect being defined by the “overwhelming presence of the ...
Neil Cocks
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Fantastic Corporeality of the Political Process (on the Example of Cinematic Material)
Corpus MundiThe article is devoted to the analysis of mythological foundations of mass culture and their role in the formation of political discourse through the images of fantastic characters reflecting archetypal motifs and emotionally affecting the collective ...
Ivan V. Suslov
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Disaster and Emotion in Richard Matheson’s Novel I Am Legend [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2022 This article seeks to examine the emotional impact of disaster in the novel I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson, one of the most celebrated writers of science fiction and horror genre in the 20th century.
Shpetim Madani
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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Gamified teaching approaches are increasingly used in higher education, making it essential to examine the gameful experience resulting from interaction with educational game elements. This study aimed to evaluate undergraduate health science students' gamified learning experience using the Gamified Experience Measurement Scale in Education ...
David Martin‐Hidalgo +3 more
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The idea on vampire as a warning to the alive [PDF]
Baština, 2010 The theme of the author's paper is the phenomenon of vampires, which was written down either with Serbs or with the whole population in the area of former Yugoslavia.
Pavlović Aleksandar
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Critical Social Work, 2019 This reply analyzes criticism of the article “Do We Always Practice What We Preach? Real Vampires’ Fears of Coming Out of the Coffin to Social Workers and Helping Professionals” published in Critical Social Work (2015), 16(1) by DJ Williams and Emily E.
Joseph Laycock
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Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The present work is devoted to establishing existence results and examining the stability properties of solutions associated with a generalized Brusselator reaction–diffusion system in both the classical and fractional‐order settings. The corresponding ODE and PDE formulations are considered to establish the global existence of solutions in ...
Fadia Haouam +3 more
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