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Femininity, ageing and performativity in the work of Amy Heckerling [PDF]
This article concerns the complex negotiation of ageing and femininity in Amy Heckerling’s two most recent films: I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007) and Vamps (2012).
Smith, Frances
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Clinical vampirism, more commonly known as Renfield’s syndrome, is an obsession with drinking blood. The earliest formal presentation of clinical vampirism to appear in the psychiatric literature, with the psychoanalytic interpretation of two cases, was ...
L. Martini
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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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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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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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Vampires, Viruses and Verbalisation: Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a genealogical window into fin-de-siècle science [PDF]
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,
Zwart, Hub
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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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Everyman with fangs: The acceptance of the modern vampire [PDF]
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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Abstract This paper examines the interplay of aestheticism and morality in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Molly Tanzer's reimagining, Creatures of Will and Temper. Wilde's original narrative positions aestheticism as both a refuge and a source of ruin, interweaving themes of homoerotic desire, moral ambiguity, and societal condemnation ...
Younes Poorghorban
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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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