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The Vampire as Numinous Experience
- Spiritual Journeys with the Undead in British and American Literature
Engelsk Paperback
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The Vampire as Numinous Experience
- Spiritual Journeys with the Undead in British and American Literature
Engelsk Paperback

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The critical work examines the vampire as a spiritual figure—whether literal or metaphorical—analyzing how the use of the vampire in literature has served to convey both a human sense of alienation from the divine and a desire to overcome that alienation. While expressing isolation, the vampire also represents the transcendent agent through which individuals and societies must confront questions about innate good or evil, and belief in the divine and the afterlife. Textual experiences of the numinous in the form of the vampire propel the subject on a spiritual journey involving both psychological and religious qualities. Through this journey, the reader and the main character may begin to understand the value of their existence and the divine. A variety of works, poetry and fiction by British and American authors, is discussed, with particular concentration on Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, as representative of the Romantic, Victorian, and late twentieth century periods of literature. A conclusion looks at the future of the literary vampire.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9780786419470
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786419474
Udg. Dato:
16 jul 2004
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
16 jul 2004
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