Vampires : : myths and metaphors of enduring evil / / edited by Peter Day.

• Superior document: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 28
• TeilnehmendeR: Day, Peter.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; Legend of the Vampire --; Getting to know the Un-dead: Bram Stoker, Vampires and Dracula /; "One for Ever": Desire, Subjectivity and the Threat of the Abject in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla /; Sex, Death, and Ecstacy: The Art of Transgression /; The Name of the Vampire: Some Reflections on Current Linguistic Theories on the Etymology of the Word Vampire /; The Discourse of the Vampire in First World War Writing /; "Dead Man Walking": The Historical Context of Vampire Beliefs /; Vampire Dogs and Marsupial Hyenas: Fear, Myth, and the Tasmanian Tiger's Extinction /; Vampires for the Modern Mind --; Vampire Subcultures /; Embracing the Metropolis: Urban Vampires in American Cinema of the 1980's and 90's /; Piercing the Corporate Veil - With a Stake? Vampire Imagery and the Law /; The Vampire and the Cyborg Embrace: Affect Beyond Fantasy in Virtual Materialism /; Looking in the Mirror: Vampires, the Symbolic, and the Thing /; "Death to Vampires!": The Vampire Body and the Meaning of Mutilation /; The Un-dead: To be Feared or/and Pitied /; "You're Whining Again Louis": Anne Rice's Vampires as Indices of the Depressive Self /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9401201463; 1423788230
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Peter Day.

In the modern world vampires come in all forms: they can be perpetrators or victims, metaphors or monsters, scapegoats for sinfulness or mirrors of our own evil. What becomes obvious from the scope of the fifteen essays in this collection is that vampires have infiltrated just about every area of popular culture and consciousness. In fact, the way that vampires are depicted in all types of media is often a telling signifier of the fears and expectations of a culture or community and the way that it perceives itself; and others. The volume's essays offer a fascinating insight into both vampires themselves and the cultures that envisage them.