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Crime and Punishment and British Gothic of Horror [PDF]

Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал
The article considers Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment alongside several works of the British Gothic tradition of horror (Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk, John William Polidori’s “The Vampyre”) and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern ...
Tatyana V. Kovalevskaya
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Vampire bats [PDF]

Current Biology, 2019
Gerald Wilkinson introduces the blood-drinking vampire bats.
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Tutti gli artisti sono i cannibali dei loro predecessori

CoSMO, 2021
The imagery of cannibalism and its persistence over the centuries are investigated from an interdisciplinary and transcultural perspective, which brings together Literature, visual Arts, Anthropology and Psychoanalysis.
Franca Franchi
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The Return of a Wandering Motive: The Use of Vampirism as a Metaphor in Social and Political Criticism in American and Serbian Films [PDF]

, 2014
The so called „epidemics of vampirism“ which flooded Western Europe during 18th century was inspired by the cases of a unproved vampirism which was investigated by an Austrian delegation in the Sebian villages of Kisiljevo and Medvedja.
Trbojević, Danilo
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Nigeria’s democracy: the trilemma of herdsmenism, terrorism and vampirism

Inkanyiso, 2017
Since the ‘invention’ of democracy by the Greek City States in the first half of the 5th Century B.C. and its popularisation after the American War of Independence in the 17th century, democracy has remained the most famous form of government.
Emmanuel O. Ojo
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Cultural Diversity and the Alternate History in Kim Newman’s Novel ‎Anno Dracula

الأستاذ, 2022
The paper offers a new insight into the global perception of vampirism as cultural diversity tradition lens in the British writer Kim Newman’s novel Anno Dracula, published in 1992.
Dr. Tatheer Assim Faiq
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Twilight : une critique en clair-obscur

Strenae, 2017
Two publishing phenomena established the concept of "young adult" literature at the beginning of this millennium: Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.
Alice Brière-Haquet
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« Brouillard sanglant » sur Sunnydale !

Strenae, 2011
The "Buffyverse" (the universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, 1997-2003) has greatly fascinated the public—from its original core audience to the entire age range over the seasons—to the point that it has undergone a whole series of
Isabelle-Rachel Casta
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You Are Not of Human Kind: Emotional Vampirism in Nosferatu as a Reflection of "Vampiric" Romantic Relationships in Contemporary Culture

Etnoantropološki Problemi
Nosferatu (2024), a film by Robert Eggers, may be regarded as an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s renowned Gothic novel Dracula. Framed through two fundamentally different cultural discourses of vampirism – Victorian horror and traditional Balkan beliefs ...
Marina Mandić
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Radziecki ruch pionierski w powieści Пищеблок Aleksieja Iwanowa — doświadczenie pokoleniowe w nowej perspektywie

Rusycystyczne Studia Literaturoznawcze, 2020
The main subject of this article is an analysis of the novel Пищеблок. The author of the article gives special attention to the theme of vampirism, used by Ivanov as a metaphor for the authoritarian Soviet system and its influence on citizens of the ...
Katarzyna Arciszewska-Tomczak
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