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The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Autor Lorna Piatti-Farnell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 noi 2013
Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the vampire as the immortal undead. This book explores the "new vampire" as a literary trope, offering a comprehensive critical analysis of vampires in contemporary popular literature and demonstrating how they engage with essential cultural preoccupations, anxieties, and desires. Drawing from cultural materialism, anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender studies, and postmodern thought, Piatti-Farnell re-frames the concept of the vampire in relation to a distinctly twenty-first century brand of Gothic imagination, highlighting important aesthetic, conceptual, and cultural changes that have affected the literary genre in the post-2000 era. She places the contemporary literary vampire within the wider popular culture scope, also building critical connections with issues of fandom and readership. In reworking the formulaic elements of the vampiric tradition — and experimenting with genre-bending techniques — this book shows how authors such as J.R. Ward, Stephanie Meyers, Charlaine Harris, and Anne Rice have allowed vampires to be moulded into enigmatic figures who sustain a vivid conceptual debt to contemporary consumer and popular culture. This book highlights the changes — conceptual, political and aesthetic — that vampires have undergone in the past decade, simultaneously addressing how these changes in "vampire identity" impact on the definition of the Gothic as a whole.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415823012
ISBN-10: 0415823013
Pagini: 234
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature


Cuprins

Introduction.  1. The Vampire Make Up  2. Vampire Bodies  3. The Vampire’s Influence  4. Vampire Rituals and Customs  5. Vampire Spaces.  Conclusion.

Notă biografică

Lorna Piatti-Farnell is a Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at Auckland University of Technology. Her research interests focus mainly on twentieth and twenty-first century popular culture, Gothic fiction, cultural history, and food studies. She has published widely in these areas. Her publications include a large number of academic articles and book chapters, and two monographs: Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction with Routledge (2011) and Beef: A Global History (2013).