Blood Read

Blood Read
Title Blood Read PDF eBook
Author Joan Gordon
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 284
Release 1997-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780812216288

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The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and other works, and many young people now identify with vampires in complex ways. Blood Read explores these transformations and shows how they reflect and illuminate ongoing changes in postmodern culture. It focuses on the metaphorical roles played by vampires in contemporary fiction and film, revealing what they can tell us about sexuality and power, power and alienation, attitudes toward illness, and the definition of evil in a secular age. Scholars and writers from the United States, Canada, England, and Japan examine how today's vampire has evolved from that of the last century, consider the vampire as a metaphor for consumption within the context of social concerns, and discuss the vampire figure in terms of contemporary literary theory. In addition, three writers of vampire fiction—Suzy McKee Charnas (author of the now-classic Vampire Tapestry), Brian Stableford (writer of the lively and erudite novels Empire of Fear and Young Blood), and Jewelle Gomez (creator of the dazzling Gilda stories)—discuss their own uses of the vampire, focusing on race and gender politics, eroticism, and the nature of evil. The first book to examine a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars, Blood Read offers a variety of styles that will keep readers thoroughly engaged, inviting them to participate in a dialogue between fiction and analysis that shows the vampire to be a cultural necessity of our age. For, contrary to legends in which Dracula has no reflection, we can see reflections of ourselves in the vampire as it stands before us cloaked not in black but in metaphor.

Blood Read Wrong

Blood Read Wrong
Title Blood Read Wrong PDF eBook
Author N. Sinclair Haynes
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Pages 279
Release 2011-07-26
Genre Fiction
ISBN 146534232X

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Discover how the poorly understood and publicized “White Nose Syndrome” that has been associated with the death of more than a million bats will lead eight individuals to spend an icy cold night at an isolated farm house next to the Bone Graveyard Mountain where the fate of more than a million humans will be decided.

Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood

Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood
Title Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood PDF eBook
Author Aspasia Stephanou
Publisher Springer
Pages 316
Release 2014-07-17
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137349239

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Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions about embodiment and identity in culture.

How to Read Slowly

How to Read Slowly
Title How to Read Slowly PDF eBook
Author James W. Sire
Publisher Shaw Books
Pages 193
Release 2000-03-07
Genre Religion
ISBN 0877883572

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Established in 1968, the Wheaton Literary Series provides insightful books for the thoughtful reader, inspiring imagination, and reflection. These beautifully produced volumes feature prose and poetry of high literary, academic, and artistic merit, written by and about Christian artists of significant stature.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

The Bite, the Breast and the Blood

The Bite, the Breast and the Blood
Title The Bite, the Breast and the Blood PDF eBook
Author Amy Williams Wilson
Publisher McFarland
Pages 264
Release 2018-09-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1476631832

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Central to every vampire story is the undead's need for human blood, but equally compelling is the human ingestion of vampire blood, which often creates a bond. This blood connection suggests two primal, natural desires: breastfeeding and communion with God through a blood covenant. This analysis of vampire stories explores the benefits of the bonding experiences of breastfeeding and Christian and vampire narratives, arguing that modern readers and viewers are drawn to this genre because of our innate fascination with the relationship between human and maker.

The Blood is the Life

The Blood is the Life
Title The Blood is the Life PDF eBook
Author Leonard G. Heldreth
Publisher Popular Press
Pages 302
Release 1999
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780879728038

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The essays in this volume use a humanistic viewpoint to explore the evolution and significance of the vampire in literature from the Romantic era to the millennium."--BOOK JACKET.

Clive Barker's Books of Blood: Volume One (Movie Tie-In)

Clive Barker's Books of Blood: Volume One (Movie Tie-In)
Title Clive Barker's Books of Blood: Volume One (Movie Tie-In) PDF eBook
Author Clive Barker
Publisher Penguin
Pages 306
Release 2020-09-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0593201043

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THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HULU ORIGINAL FILM Rediscover the true meaning of fear in this collection of horror stories from Clive Barker, New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Hellraiser series. Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red. In this tour de force collection of brilliantly disturbing tales, Clive Barker combines the extraordinary with the ordinary, bringing to life our darkest nightmares with stories that both seduce and devour. As beautiful as they are terrible, the pages of this volume are stained with unsettling imagery, macabre humor, and visceral dread. Here then are the stories written on the Book of Blood. Read, if it pleases you, and learn.... This Volume includes: “The Book of Blood” • “The Midnight Meat Train” • “The Yattering and Jack” • “Pig Blood Blues” • “Sex, Death and Starshine” • “In the Hills, the Cities”