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The Vampire Peasant

Author : Eileen Aiyana Taylor
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796038202
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Vampire Peasant written by Eileen Aiyana Taylor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanni Bellini is an Italian vampire. He was turned into one by a pureblood in the early 1820s at the age of seventeen. His parents died in the mid-1800s, leaving him alone. It is now the year 2020, with all the high-end fashion and modern-day technology. Since he only makes four hundred dollars a month to live off of, he has no extra money to spend on new things. He is stuck living with the possessions he has had since the 1800s. There are some upsides though. For one, the royal family has passed a law for the peasants to go to school. He’s now a junior in high school with hope for a better future. He wants more than anything to uplift his peasant name. Peasants in his day and age are looked down on. They are beaten, spit on, and called names, called worthless. Some even say that they just shouldn’t be alive. Vanni is different somehow. He has a knack for always finding himself in bad situations. Since he is mateless, no one is there to save him. There is no one to protect him. What will happen when he finds himself at the royal castle with two uninvited guests? They are offering him a better life, a life with no beatings or suicide comments. But what’s the catch? Nothing comes free. Everything comes with a price, but what is it? Will his mate ever come for him?

The Vampire

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029915923X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book The Vampire written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures are gathered in one volume by eminent folklorist Alan Dundes. Eleven leading scholars from the fields of Slavic studies, history, anthropology, and psychiatry unearth the true nature of the vampire from its birth in graveyard lore to the modern-day psychiatric patient with a penchant for drinking blood. The Vampire: A Casebook takes this legend out of the realm of literature and film and back to its dark beginnings in folk traditions. The essays examine the history of the word “vampire;” Romanian vampires; Greek vampires; Serbian vampires; the physical attributes of vampires; the killing of vampires; and the possible psychoanalytic underpinnings of vampires. Much more than simply a scary creature of the human imagination, the vampire has been and continues to haunt the lives of all those who encounter it—in reality or in fiction.

The Vampire

Author : Thomas M. Bohn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789202930
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Vampire written by Thomas M. Bohn and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An illuminating contribution to scholarship on the vampire figure.”—Slavic Review Even before Bram Stoker immortalized Transylvania as the homeland of his fictional Count Dracula, the figure of the vampire was inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected sources, this book offers a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally emerged from folk traditions from all over the world—became so strongly identified with Eastern Europe. It demonstrates that the modern conception of the vampire was born in the crucible of the Enlightenment, embodying a mysterious, Eastern otherness that stood opposed to Western rationality. From the Prologue: From Original Sin to Eternal Life For a broad contemporary public, the vampire has become a star, a media sensation from Hollywood. Bestselling authors such as Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer continue to fire the imaginations of young and old alike, and bloodsuckers have achieved immortality through films like Dracula, Interview with a Vampireand Twilight. It is no wonder that, in the teenage bedrooms of our globalized world, vampires even steal the show from Harry Potter. They have long since been assigned individual personalities and treated with sympathy. They may possess superhuman powers, but they are also burdened by their immortality and have to learn to come to terms with their craving for blood. Whereas the Southeast European vampire, discovered in the 1730s, underwent an Americanization and domestication in the media landscape of the twentieth century, the creole zombies that first became known through the cheap novels and horror films of the 1920s still continue to serve as brainless horror figures. Do bloodsuckers really exist and should we really be afraid of the dead? These are the questions that I seek to tackle, following the wishes of my daughter, who was ten when I started this project.

The Black Lily

Author : Juliette Cross
Publisher : Entangled: Amara
ISBN 13 : 1633758753
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book The Black Lily written by Juliette Cross and published by Entangled: Amara. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, the threat of the Varis family grows stronger—especially to the humans they rule over. And with every minute that Arabelle spends doing chores for vain, entitled aristocrats, her resolve to overthrow the vampire monarchy increases. She is the leader of the underground resistance, The Black Lily. And she’s waited long enough. Now is the perfect time to ignite the rebellion. The plan? Attend the vampire prince’s blood ball. And kill him. Dagger in hand, Arabelle is caught off guard by the immediate spark she shares with Prince Marius. It doesn’t help that he’s listening to her and seems so kind and understanding. Arabelle is sworn to kill Marius at all costs, but what if Prince Charming is more than he appears to be? Because now he knows the truth...and she’ll have to do whatever she can to save her people. Each book in the Vampire Blood series is STANDALONE: * The Black Lily * The Red Lily * The White Lily * The Emerald Lily

Publications

Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Publications written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Peasants

Author : Wladyslaw Reymont
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241524253
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Peasants written by Wladyslaw Reymont and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village's wealthiest farmer, has taken the young and beautiful Jagusia as his bride - but she only has eyes for his impetuous son Antek. Over the course of four seasons - Autumn to Summer - the tangled skein of their story unravels, watched eagerly by the other peasants: the gossip Jagustynka, pious Roch, hot-blooded Mateusz, gentle Witek ... Richly lyrical and thrillingly realist, at turns comic, tragic and reflective, Wladyslaw Reymont's magnum opus is a love song to a lasting dream of rural Poland, and to the eternal, timeless matters of the heart.

Transylvanian Vampires

Author : Adriana Groza
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147661492X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Transylvanian Vampires written by Adriana Groza and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authentic vampire tales exist in Transylvanian folklore--yet the Transylvanian vampire is nothing like the bloodthirsty count of Bram Stoker's imagination or the romantic hero of popular fiction. The Romanian tradition reflects the norms of peasant life and wisdom embedded in age-old communities. This book consists of 21 narratives developed from brief accounts recorded by local anthropologists and historians from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The goal is to capture the major themes found in the existing sources. The book also includes translations of 17 brief folk stories about Vlad Ţepeş, known as Dracula. Contrary to the prevailing fictive image, these stories portray Vlad as a wise although strict ruler and a proud defender of his country's autonomy. An introduction discusses the Transylvanian village and its rich folk traditions, making explicit the comparison to the historic and to the fictional Dracula.

Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism

Author : Dr Tom Brass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136325298
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism written by Dr Tom Brass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of 'otherness'/ 'difference' lies the concept of and innate 'peasant-ness'. In a variety of contextually-specific discursive forms, the 'old' populism of the 1890s and the nationalism and fascism in Europe, America and Asia during the 1920s and 1930s were all informed by the agrarian myth. The postmodern 'new' populism and the 'new' right, both of which emerged after the 1960s and consolidated during the 1990s, are also structured discursively by the agrarian myth, and with it the ideological reaffirmation of peasant essentialism.

Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella

Author : Christopher Frayling
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500773491
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella written by Christopher Frayling and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded, fully illustrated, and up-to-date edition of the classic cultural history of vampires Vampyres is a comprehensive and generously illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of eastern Europe to the Romantics and beyond. It incorporates extracts from a huge range of sources—from Bram Stoker’s detailed research notes for Dracula to penny dreadfuls, to Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (new to this edition) which is analyzed by the author in a broader cultural context. This revised and expanded edition of the 1978 classic brings Vampyres up to date with twenty-first-century vampire literature, including new text extracts, commentary, and a revised introduction. For the first time, Christopher Frayling also explores the development of the vampire in the visual arts in four color-plate sections, with illustrations ranging from eighteenth-century prints to twenty-first-century film stills, demonstrating the enduring appeal of the vampire from popular press to fine art and, finally, to film.

The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature

Author : Carol A. Senf
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299263835
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature written by Carol A. Senf and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol A. Senf traces the vampire’s evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. This bloodsucker who had stalked the folklore of almost every culture became the property of serious artists and thinkers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality.

Postcolonial Urbanism

Author : Ryan Bishop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136060502
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Urbanism written by Ryan Bishop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western urbanism. Despite being heavily colonized in the past, Southeast Asia has been largely ignored in discussions about postcolonial theory and in general considerations of global urbanism. An international cast of contributors focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of Southeast Asia to investigate the novel forms of urbanism germinating in postcolonial settings such as Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Hanoi, and the Philippines. Offering a mix of theoretical perspectives and empirical accounts, Postcolonial Urbanism presents a panoramic view of the cultures, societies, and politics of the postcolonial city.

The Open Court

Author : Paul Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Open Court written by Paul Carus and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of Vampires & Werewolves

Author : Robert E. Howard
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3694 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Vampires & Werewolves written by Robert E. Howard and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 3694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires and werewolves have existed alongside humans since antiquity, or at least the tales of them. Reawaken the fear, the dread and the obsession with the creatures of the night with this meticulously edited collection of the greatest horror classics of all time: Vampires: The Vampyre (John William Polidori) Dracula (Bram Stoker) Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker) Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier) Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu) Vikram and the Vampire (Sir Richard Francis Burton) The Vampire (Jan Neruda) Varney the Vampire, or, the Feast of Blood (Thomas PeckettPrest and James Malcolm Rymer) The Vampire of Croglin Grange (Augustus Hare) The Vampire Maid (Hume Nisbet) The Room in the Tower (E. F. Benson) Mrs.Amworth (E. F. Benson) Vampires and Vampirism (Dudley Wright) Werewolves: The Lay of the Were-Wolf (Marie de France) The Wolf Leader (Alexandre Dumas Père) Wagner the Wehr-wolf (George W. M. Reynolds) The Werewolf (Eugene Field) The Man-Wolf (ÉmileErckmann&AlexandreChatrian) The Mark of the Beast (Rudyard Kipling) The Horror-Horn (E. F. Benson) In the Forest of Villefére (Robert E. Howard) Wolfshead (Robert E. Howard) Werewolf of the Sahara (Gladys Gordon Trenery) The Werewolf Howls (Clifford Ball)

Latin American Peasants

Author : Tom Brass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135761892
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Latin American Peasants written by Tom Brass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America. Among the issues covered are the impact of globalization and neo-liberal economic policies.

Celluloid Vampires

Author : Stacey Abbott
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029278449X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Celluloid Vampires written by Stacey Abbott and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Méliès brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people become acquainted with the vampire through film than through literature, such as Bram Stoker's classic Dracula. How has this long legacy of celluloid vampires affected our understanding of vampire mythology? And how has the vampire morphed from its folkloric and literary origins? In this entertaining and absorbing work, Stacey Abbott challenges the conventional interpretation of vampire mythology and argues that the medium of film has completely reinvented the vampire archetype. Rather than representing the primitive and folkloric, the vampire has come to embody the very experience of modernity. No longer in a cape and coffin, today's vampire resides in major cities, listens to punk music, embraces technology, and adapts to any situation. Sometimes she's even female. With case studies of vampire classics such as Nosferatu, Martin, Blade, and Habit, the author traces the evolution of the American vampire film, arguing that vampires are more than just blood-drinking monsters; they reflect the cultural and social climate of the societies that produce them, especially during times of intense change and modernization. Abbott also explores how independent filmmaking techniques, special effects makeup, and the stunning and ultramodern computer-generated effects of recent films have affected the representation of the vampire in film.

The Vampire Book

Author : J Gordon Melton
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 1578593506
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book The Vampire Book written by J Gordon Melton and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.

The Empire of the Tsars

Author : Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
Publisher : Jovian Press
ISBN 13 : 153780927X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book The Empire of the Tsars written by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russians themselves will say at times they have no history. Some, like Tchaadáyef of old, deplore the fact in melancholy strain, passionate and eloquent, nor can anything console them for having missed the most brilliant epochs of European life, or allay their fears that, for lack of the same trials and upbringing, their country never can achieve the same civilization, for that a nation without a past is also without a future. Others, more numerous, boldly congratulate themselves on the same fact, boasting of their freedom from the trammels of all tradition and all prejudice, from the fetters of a past in which, in spite of her revolutions, old Europe remains entangled...