[PDF] Vampire University eBook

Author : Luise White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520922298

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During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throats cut so their blood drained into huge buckets. In Kampala, the police were said to abduct Africans and keep them in pits, where their blood was sucked. Luise White presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumor as historical sources in their own right, she assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction. White conducted more than 130 interviews for this book and did research in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. In addition to presenting powerful, vivid stories that Africans told to describe colonial power, the book presents an original epistemological inquiry into the nature of historical truth and memory, and into their relationship to the writing of history.

Author : Paul Barber
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300048599

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Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers a scientific explanation for the origins of the legends.

Author : V. J. Erickson
Publisher :
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2014-10-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781502795120

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The complete Vampire University series all in one ebook. Book One - Vampire University Constantly moving as she grew up, Taylor had learned the hard way how to blend in wherever she went. But when she moves to VanCamp University for her freshman year of college, she immediately finds herself at the center of attention of nearly everyone she encounters. From the charismatic and mysterious Evans twins, to her quirky, clingy roommate Hannah, it seems that the people in Taylor's new college life have no intention of letting her be the wallflower. It's not just blending in that Taylor has to worry about, though. At VanCamp University, there is more to the staff and students than meets the eye. While trying to adjust to her new life on campus, she finds herself in a world where fairy tales and reality collide, where gargoyles and leprechauns mingle with humans and vampires, and where nothing is as it first appears. And as she discovers the truth of her own unusual heritage, Taylor learns that fairy tales are just the beginning. Book Two - The Last Leprechaun After surviving their encounters with vampires and other supernatural creatures at VanCamp University, Taylor and her friends must face the real dangers of college: homework, parties, new roommates, and first dates. Nothing for Taylor is ever quite that simple though. Just as she is trying to live a normal freshman life with an overprotective roommate, she is drawn into the mystery of a park with magical secrets. As she grows closer to her new friends, their trust in each other is tested when demons from their past come back to haunt them. Book Three - Angel Guardian With the dangers she had encountered behind her, Taylor Bain is finally ready to settle down to a normal college experience. But when Eric Evans returns to town, trouble is not far behind. And when she turns to her friend Hannah Cohen for help, Taylor discovers that Tom was not her only friend with secrets. Book Four - Guardians of Eden The Vampire University Series concludes in this final chapter as Taylor Bain again has to defend herself and the people she loves against impossible forces. The stakes have never been higher as Taylor races against time to save Hannah, and Joseph fights against all odds to save his brother Eric from the power-hungry guardian who threatens them all.

Author : Francine Pascal
Publisher : Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 1995-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780553542332

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Elizabeth Wakefield is falling in love with Nikolai Von Greiner, a famous "yet mysterious" journalist. Nikolai is tall, dark, dangerously handsome....and the keeper of a deadly secret. Will Elizabeth abandon her friends, her family and even her life to be with the man she longs for?

Author : Jeffrey Weinstock
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0231850034

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This introductory volume offers an elegant analysis of the enduring appeal of the cinematic vampire. From Georges Méliès' early cinematic experiments to Twilight and Let the Right One In, the history of vampires in cinema can be organised by a handful of governing principles that help make sense of this movie monster's remarkable fecundity. Among these principles are that the cinematic vampire is invariably about sex and the vexed human relationship with technology, and that the vampire is always an overdetermined body condensing what a culture considers other. This volume includes in-depth studies of films including Powell's A Fool There Was, Franco's Vampyros Lesbos, Cronenberg's Rabid, Kümel's Daughters of Darkness, and Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire.

Author : Milly Williamson
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781904764403

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This title explores the enduring myth of Dracula and vampires and just why it has remained so popular for so long.

Author : Nina Auerbach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 022605618X

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This “vigorous, witty look at the undead as cultural icons in 19th- and 20th-century England and America” examines the many meanings of the vampire myth (Kirkus Reviews). From Byron’s Lord Ruthven to Anne Rice’s Lestat to the black bisexual heroine of Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories, vampires have taken many forms, capturing and recapturing our imaginations for centuries. In Our Vampires, Ourselves, Nina Auerbach explores the rich history of this literary and cultural phenomenon to illuminate 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 follows the evolution of the vampire from 19th century England to 20th century America. Using the mercurial figure as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history, “this seductive work offers profound insights into many of the urgent concerns of our time” (Wendy Doniger, The Nation).

Author : Barbara Brodman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1611475805

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Since the publication of John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire was a feared creature of Eastern European folklore and legend, rising from the grave at night to consume its living loved ones and neighbors, often converting them at the same time into fellow vampires. A major question exists within vampire scholarship: to what extent is this creature a product of European cultural forms, or is the vampire indeed a universal, perhaps even archetypal figure? In this collection of sixteen original essays, the contributors shed light on this question. One essay traces the origins of the legend to the early medieval Norse draugr, an "undead" creature who reflects the underpinnings of Dracula, the latter first appearing as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula. In addition to these investigations of the Western mythic, literary and historic traditions, other essays in this volume move outside Europe to explore vampire figures in Native American and Mesoamerican myth and ritual, as well as the existence of similar vampiric traditions in Japanese, Russian and Latin American art, theatre, literature, film, and other cultural productions. The female vampire looms large, beginning with the Sumerian goddess Lilith, including the nineteenth-century Carmilla, and moving to vampiresses in twentieth-century film, literature, and television series. Scientific explanations for vampires and werewolves constitute another section of the book, including eighteenth-century accounts of unearthing, decapitation and cremation of suspected vampires in Eastern Europe. The vampire's beauty, attainment of immortality and eternal youth are all suggested as reasons for its continued success in contemporary popular culture.

Author : Mark Jenkins
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1426206070

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"Take a journey into the macabre in search of those ultimate creatures of the night: the immortal beings who defy death by feeding on the lifeblood of others - vampires. Generation after generation has found vampire lore - printed in old books, inscribed in medieval manuscripts, whispered by firelight in chimney corners, or written in moldering tombs and ancient bones - to be as fascinating as it is frightening. Yet its origins have always been shrouded in mystery." "Where did vampires first arise? Was Dracula really inspired by a 15th-century nobleman with the bloodcurdling name of Vlad the Impaler? Why are vampires so closely associated with epidemic disease and bats? What can we learn from the amazing recent discovery by National Geographic grantee Dr. Matteo Borrini of the buried remains of a 16th-century Venetian plague victim and suspected vampire? And what is it about graveyards that made people believe that the dead could prey on the living?" "In Vampire Forensics, historian Mark Jenkins probes vampire legend and shows how modern forensics, anthropology, and archaeology have helped to dig up historical truths enshrined in these gruesome tales." --Book Jacket.

Author : Barbara Brodman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611475813

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Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire was a feared creature of Eastern European folklore and legend, rising from the grave at night to consume its living loved ones and neighbors, often converting them at the same time into fellow vampires. A major question exists within vampire scholarship: to what extent is this creature a product of European cultural forms, or is the vampire indeed a universal, perhaps even archetypal figure? In this collection of sixteen original essays, the contributors shed light on this question. One essay traces the origins of the legend to the early medieval Norse draugr, an “undead” creature who reflects the underpinnings of Dracula, the latter first appearing as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. In addition to these investigations of the Western mythic, literary and historic traditions, other essays in this volume move outside Europe to explore vampire figures in Native American and Mesoamerican myth and ritual, as well as the existence of similar vampiric traditions in Japanese, Russian and Latin American art, theatre, literature, film, and other cultural productions. The female vampire looms large, beginning with the Sumerian goddess Lilith, including the nineteenth-century Carmilla, and moving to vampiresses in twentieth-century film, literature, and television series. Scientific explanations for vampires and werewolves constitute another section of the book, including eighteenth-century accounts of unearthing, decapitation and cremation of suspected vampires in Eastern Europe. The vampire’s beauty, attainment of immortality and eternal youth are all suggested as reasons for its continued success in contemporary popular culture.