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The Werewolf in the Ancient World, 2020
This chapter separates the ancient data on the werewolves of Mt Lykaion into three categories: (1) that bearing on the elaborate complex of aetiological myths about Lykaon himself and his human sacrifice, the bulk of which is surprisingly late; (2) that bearing upon the historical Anthid rite associated with the Lykaia festival, a rite of maturation ...
D. Ogden
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This chapter separates the ancient data on the werewolves of Mt Lykaion into three categories: (1) that bearing on the elaborate complex of aetiological myths about Lykaon himself and his human sacrifice, the bulk of which is surprisingly late; (2) that bearing upon the historical Anthid rite associated with the Lykaia festival, a rite of maturation ...
D. Ogden
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Twenty-First-Century Gothic, 2019
Twenty-first-century werewolves (following vampires) have become humanised, as identity politics have become mainstream and the Other assimilated. Young Adult fiction and paranormal romance have proved to be where the most radical transformations of the theme have occurred.
Kaja Franck, Sam George
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Twenty-first-century werewolves (following vampires) have become humanised, as identity politics have become mainstream and the Other assimilated. Young Adult fiction and paranormal romance have proved to be where the most radical transformations of the theme have occurred.
Kaja Franck, Sam George
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Werewolves, Ghosts, and the Dead
The Werewolf in the Ancient World, 2020This chapter traces the persistent association between werewolves, ghosts and the dead in the ancient world. As to werewolves proper, Herodotus’ application of the word goētes to his werewolf Neuri, in addition to saluting their ability to transmute their form, probably also implies that they engaged in ghost- or soul-manipulation.
D. Ogden
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Game of Werewolves: XXI Century Spanish Werewolves and the Conflict of Masculinity
Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film, 2019The Spanish lycanthrope arrived successfully to Spanish screens with The Mark of the Wolfman (Eguiluz, 1968), introducing iconic actor and scriptwriter Paul Naschy as werewolf Waldemar Daninsky.
Irene Baena-Cuder
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Wonders Never Cease: Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Curiosities in Early Modern France
Preternature Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, 2023:This article argues for the continuity of belief in wonders from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries through the Enlightenment. Even as confidence in magic and witchcraft supposedly waned, popular interest in wonders (including creatures like ...
Michael R. Lynn
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Introduction: Werewolves and Wildness
Gothic Studies, 2019Sam George, Bill Hughes
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“Of coyotes and werewolves: Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero”
The Explicator, 2022To date, Bret Easton Ellis’ 1985 Less than Zero has understandably lacked an ecocritical reading due to its explicit depiction of sexual violence, over-thetop consumerism, rampant drug use, vapid characters, and crippling alienation.
Todd Giles
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OOO! THE PORTRAYAL OF WEREWOLVES IN HARRY POTTER, TWILIGHT SAGA, AND TEEN WOLF
HUMANIS: Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Sosial dan HumanioraThis study investigates the portrayal of werewolves across three distinct cinematic franchises: ‘Harry Potter, ‘Twilight Saga’, and ‘Teen Wolf’.
Rona Zhafira Al Khansa +2 more
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Marlowe’s “Faustus”, the Horse-Courser, and Werewolves
ANQ. A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and ReviewsThe story of the Horse-Courser’s encounter with Doctor Faustus in Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus resists easy interpretation.
Damian Shaw
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