Universal Vampire (eBook)

Barbara Brodman is professor of humanities at Nova Southeastern University. She has published a variety of scholarly works that deal with international arts and affairs. James E. Doan is professor of humanities at Nova Southeastern University, where he teaches courses in literature, the arts, folklore and mythology, including a course on the vampire that he has taught for twenty years.

ContentsAcknowledgements Barbara Brodman and James E Doan, Introduction Part 1: The Western Vampire: From Draugr to DraculaMatthias Teichert,“Draugula”: The draugr in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Literature and His Relationship to the Post-Medieval Vampire Myth Paul E. H. Davis, Dracula Anticipated: The “Undead” in Anglo-Irish Literature Alexis M. Milmine, Retracing the Shambling Steps of the Undead: The Blended Folkloric Elements of Vampirism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Cristina Artenie, Dracula’s Kitchen: A Glossary of Transylvanian Cuisine, Language and Ethnography Part 2: Medical Explanations for the VampireEdward O. Keith, Biomedical Origins of Vampirism Leo Ruickbie, Evidence for the Undead: The Role of Medical Investigation in the 18th-Century Vampire Epidemic Clemens Ruthner, Undead Feedback: Adaptations and Echoes of Johann Flückinger’s Report, Visum et Repertum (1732), until the Millennium Part 3: The Female Vampire in World Myth and the ArtsNancy Schumann, Women with Bite: Tracing Vampire Women from Lilith to Twilight Angela Tumini, Vampiresse: Embodiment of Sensuality and Erotic Horror in Carl Th. Dreyer’s Vampyr and Mario Bava’s The Mask of Satan James E. Doan, The Vampire in Native American and Mesoamerican Lore Katherine Allocco, Vampiric Viragoes: Villainizing and Sexualizing Arthurian Women in Dracula vs. King Arthur (2005) Jamieson Ridenhour,‘If I Wasn’t a Girl, Would You Like Me Anyway?’ Le Fanu’s Carmilla and Alfredson’s Let the Right One In Part 4: Old and New World Manifestations of the VampireMasaya Shimokusu, A Cultural Dynasty of Beautiful Vampires: Japan’s Acceptance, Modifications and Adaptations of Vampires Tomas Jesús Garza, From Russia with Blood: Imagining the Vampire in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture Adriana Gordillo, Dracula Comes to Mexico: Carlos Fuentes’ “Vlad,” Echoes of Origins, and the Return of Colonialism Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández and Claudia Schaefer, Sublime Horror: Transparency, Melodrama and the Mise-en-Scène of Two Mexican Vampire Films BibliographyAbout the Contributors Index