“Grappling with the representations of puberty and adolescent body as abject spaces-in-between and intertwining the figures of the innocent and the evil child, these chapters problematise the ideas of liminality, age of consent, (im)maturity, child's agency and child abuse.”
“The portrayal of the vampire as host and/or guest is one of the most frequently rehearsed tropes of the vampire mythos. As one who stands on ceremony, attending to formal details of courtesy, the bloo...”
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“The vampire as host, however, poses only one kind of threat to the mortals populating fantasy tales. Of even greater terror is the moment when the creature of darkness steps over the threshold of a hu...”
Vampires
“Through the analysis of Sheridan le Fanu's novella Carmilla (1872) and Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, (1897), Green points to the ways in which the figure of the vampire becomes a terrain of confused an...”
Vampires
“With the social and ethical context of the transformations of adolescence as the centrepiece of her chapter, Amanda Howell in "Coming of Age, With Vampires" gives voice to the figure of teenager as th...”
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“Rooting her analysis in Jungian analytical psychology, Terrie Waddell continues the exploration of the figure of the vampire as a being that is eternally imprisoned in a transitional space. In her cha...”
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