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The Old English Poem "A Vampyre of the Fens": A Bibliographical Ghost

open access: yesMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2005
Dudley Wrights’ book Vampires and Vampirism (1914) might well be said to be the first serious attempt in English to compile vampire stories and reports from all over the world, as well as to elucidate how far a certain amount of scientific truth might ...
Eugenio Olivares Merino
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Virtue as Adventure and Excess: Intertextuality, Masculinity, and Desire in the Twilight Series

open access: yesCulture 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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Monster as a Superhero: an Essay on Vampire Vogue in Contemporary Film Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The worldwide popular series Twilight is the mixed genre phenomenon in literature, media and cinema. After monstrous cinema interpretations of vampires, Edward Cullen becomes a vampire that women fall in love with.
Lejla Panjeta
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Spreading vampirism: Viral disease models in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

open access: yes, 2019
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) and its companion series Angel (1999-2004) were American television shows that contrasted the behavior and physicality of human characters from their vampiric counterparts.
Julian Freedland
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Review of \u3cem\u3eSpectral Readings: Towards a Gothic Geography,\u3c/em\u3e edited by Glennis Byron and David Punter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Spectral Readings: Towards a Gothic Geography edited by Glennis Byron and David Punter is ...
Hoeveler, Diane
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‘A Very Hell of Horrors’? The Haitian Revolution and the Early Transatlantic Haitian Gothic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article explores the Gothicisation of the Haitian Revolution in the transatlantic discourse during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Hoermann, Raphael
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Postcolonial Recycling of the Oriental Gothic: Habiby's Saraya, The Ghoul's Daughter and Mukherjee's Jasmine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article examines Emile Habiby's Saraya, The Ghoul's Daughter (1991) and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine (1989) as two postcolonial novels seeking to rewrite the history of Palestinian and Indian diaspora according to their respective myths of Oriental ...
Gamal, Ahmed
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A.K. TOLSTOY AND E.T.A. HOFFMANN. STYLIZATION OF ROMANTIC AND GOTHIC TRADITIONS IN A.K. TOLSTOY’S WORKS

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2018
Purpose. In this paper, it is Hoffmann’s features in works by A.K. Tolstoy, i.e. Ghoul, Family of a Ghoul, Meeting after Three Hundred Years, a passage of Amena and Don Juan that are studied.
Vera Vladimirovna Koroleva
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Resuscitating the Undead Queer in Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Saga

open access: yesJournal of Popular Romance Studies, 2016
Broadly, this is an article about queerness and its relationship to Stephanie Meyer’s gothic romance series, Twilight—a narrative about a supposedly odd and out-of-place girl meeting and falling in love with a vampire (or, more appropriately, a rich ...
Jami McFarland
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