«L’Histoire des Vampires et des Spectres Malfaisants, publiée en 1820, est un classique de la littérature démonologique, particulièrement foisonnante au 19e siècle. L’auteur inconnu, mais le texte est couramment attribué à Jacques Collin de Plancy, écrivain, essayiste et occultiste, qui avait déjà fait paraître le Dictionnaire Infernal (1818).»
Format: Monographie
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The Book of Vampires
«Visions of fiends rising from their graves to prey on the living have long haunted humanity. The most notorious of these figures is the vampire, a nocturnal creature with an unnatural hunger. This book, originally published in the early twentieth century, was the first serious study of vampirism in the English language. Dudley Wright, a folklorist and specialist in ancient religions and occult beliefs, compiled a fascinating mix of science and the supernatural from a wealth of references and records. Wright examines the body of evidence and discusses vampirism as an observable phenomenon with distinct scientific, sociological, mythic, and literary elements. The result is an excellent introduction to the subject. His fascinating, highly readable account of legends about vampire behavior, from all time periods and all countries, extends from ancient Assyria and Greece to areas of the Far East. Readers will discover that tales of vampires were whispered not only in the quiet villages of Central Europe, but also in Russia, the Middle East, India, the British Isles, and even America» [Quatrième de couverture]
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In Search Of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires
«Until recently most people thought Dracula was a creation of film and fiction. With the original publication of In Search of Dracula, the actual historical figure of Prince Vlad of Transylvania – better known as Vlad the Impaler – was rediscovered, and readers were introduced to one of the darkest figures of Eastern European history and folklore. Out of print for more than a decade, In Search of Dracula has now been completely rewritten and updated. This new edition includes entries from Bram Stoker’s newly discovered diaries, the amazing tale of Nicolae Ceausescu’s attempt to make Vlad a Romanian national hero, and a comprehensive examination of recent adaptations of the Dracula story in novels, on stage, and on screen. For a member of the undead, Dracula has enjoyed a vibrant and ubiquitous life for the past century. Even more enduring and powerful a creation than Sherlock Holmes – with whom he shares similar late-Victorian popular literary origins – the Count continues to fascinate with his distinctive mixture of blood, sex, and death.»
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The Vampire in Legend, Fact and Art
«In the pages of this fascinating book appear Bram Stoker and his famous creation, Count Dracula; Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla; Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigating a Sussex vampire; and that celebrated creature, E.F. Benson’s Mrs. Amworth. Here too will be found analysis of classic silent films and discussions of key works of the sound film. Discussed also are real-life acts of vampirism, such as those of Fritz Hoarman and John George Haigh.»
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American Vampires: Fans, Victims, Practitioners
«Explores the American fascination with vampire folklore, interviewing those whose obsession ends with watching “Dark Shadows” and receiving vampire newsletters to those who drink warm human blood, and surveys the commercial vampire product industry.»
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Our Vampires, Ourselves
«Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history.»
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Le vampire dans la littérature du XIXe au XXe siècle
«Cette recherche sur le vampire propose une comparaison entre certaines caractéristiques du personnage littéraire de la fin du XIXè avec celles XXe siècle. La comparaison révèle que, sur cette période le vampire s’humanise. L’humanisation du vampire avec l’identification concomitante du lecteur pose deux questions : Est-ce que la société accepte mieux aujourd’hui les différences ? Est-ce que l’homme moderne est devenu monstrueux ?»
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Plaisirs de vampire. Gautier, Gracq, Giono
«Lire, c’est fréquenter amicalement un texte ; parfois l’épouser (le livre de chevet) ; ou même le vampiriser : je m’incorpore sa substance, il fait désormais partie de moi, et moi de lui. Tout cela tient à une certaine façon de faire jouer l’intertexte que l’on peut nommer interlecture. Trois contes fantastiques de Gautier permettent d’analyser les soubassements inconscients du vampirisme, y compris dans une variante où c’est l’œil, le “mauvais œil”, qui suce le sang de la victime. Les Eaux étroites de Julien Gracq montrent que l’artiste a le pouvoir de s’assimiler à la fois un paysage et des fictions littéraires. Giono, dans Deux cavaliers de l’orage, met en scène de façon exemplaire la conjonction du sanguinaire et de l’érotique, le drame de l’amour qui tue. On peut aussi chercher à voir comment l’écriture du critique non seulement envahit les profondeurs inaperçues du texte, mais le conditionne à occuper à son tour sous cette forme nouvelle l’esprit du lecteur. Dracula ou Don Juan, il est toujours question de séduire. Aimer l’art, serait-ce apprendre à jouir d’être victime?»
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Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption
«From the novels of Anne Rice to The Lost Boys, from The Terminator to cyberpunk science fiction, vampires and cyborgs have become strikingly visible figures within American popular culture, especially youth culture. In Consuming Youth, Rob Latham explains why, showing how fiction, film, and other media deploy these ambiguous monsters to embody and work through the implications of a capitalist system in which youth both consume and are consumed.» (Sur Google Books, https://books.google.ca/books/about/Consuming_Youth.html?id=Q_yvdudgP7kC&redir_esc=y)