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The discussion concerning the etymology of the word vampire has continued for more than a century now, and it has produced many more hypotheses than can be reasonably examined here. This paper only reviews the most plausible ones, but it also contains a discussion of the phonetic, morphological, semantic, historical, and cultural-historical constraints,
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All three hitherto published novels by Dana Grigorcea do explicitly refer to Romania. Had her first novel been set in the Danube Delta and her second in Bucharest, so the plot of the recently released novel Die nicht sterben is located in the touristic ...
Markus Fischer
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Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers is usually approached in film and cultural studies from a genological perspective: as a game with the convention and genres, a work that has the features of parody and pastiche, yet complies with the poetics ...
Jakub Rawski
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A solvent‐free, two‐step chemical vapor polymerization enables efficient, substrate‐independent synthesis of surface‐attached polypeptide films. Initiator deposition via CVD is followed by NCA ring‐opening polymerization. Characterization confirms film formation and functionalization, allowing precise micropatterning and bioactive surface design for ...
Domenic Kratzer +4 more
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Challenging neoliberal time: Creating space for radical praxis in geography
Short Abstract The non‐linearity of time is a useful way to understand how we work in academia. In this paper I explore how can we change how we use our time. I propose three responses, which each play with time as non‐linear, multiple rhythms, and as having a lack of balance or stability.
Jenny Pickerill
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Literary depiction and comparison of vampirism using examples of Dracula and the Twilight saga
Ovaj rad nastoji pojasniti podrijetlo vampirizma te njegovu ulogu u književnosti, na primjerima Dracule, najpoznatijega romana o vampirima svih vremena te najpoznatijega serijala romana o vampirima u suvremenoj književnosti, Sumrak sage.
Stipanović, Josip
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Vampire Motif in O. Mirtov’s Novel Dead Swell: Gender Aspect [PDF]
The article discusses the reinterpretation in O. Mirtov’s (Olga Negreskul) novel Dead Swell (1909) of the images and plot moves of the novel by English writer Bram Stoker Dracula (1897) and, in general, the vampiric myth peculiar to romantic and neo ...
Ekaterina V. Kuznetsova
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VAMPIRISM AND LESBIANISM IN CARMILLA BY JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU [PDF]
The Vampire is a mystical figure that embodied the most primitive sentiments and became an icon of the Gothic literature of the nineteenth century. Among these icons, we have the character Carmilla, better known as the vampire of Karnstein.
Moscoso Maia, Marília Milhomem
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The Mediaeval necropolis at Trnjane, in today’s eastern Serbia, was excavated during the 1970s and the results were published in the 1980s. Based on the material recovered from the graves, it was concluded that the necropolis was used from the end of ...
Nevena Pantić
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Vampires gained worldwide popularity due to the classic novel about the most famous one, Dracula, written by Bram Stoker in 1897. Bram Stoker’s Dracula has very little in common with his inspiration, the fifteenth-century Wallachian ruler Vlad III (1431 ...
ALEKSANDAR RISTIĆ
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