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The Vampire: A Casebook
by
Alan Dundes
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 v...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
September 24th 1998
by University of Wisconsin Press
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Vampires are on my brain after taking a summer class devoted to them. This was our class text, and many of these essays were very enlightening. Some were a bit repetitive and ho-hum, but after some yawns and page shuffling, I came across some gold mines. If you're interested at all about how the whole vampire craze began, this would be a fun source to be acquainted with - just be ready to step back in time a few hundred years.
Some decent essays in this book -- if you're looking for more about vampires in eastern Europe. i'd skip the Freudian stuff though....
Intressant antologi med vampyrtexter.
A range of essays (recent and some older) on vampires from a folklore perspective. Alan Dundes ends the book with his universal Freudian interpretation of the vampire. It has a great bibliography and the essays have much food for thought.
These are some really interesting essays on vampires and their origin. This book can be coupled with Freud's essays on sexuality for some very insightful explanations on how and why we created the vampire figure.
This book has some interesting primary essays about vampire history and lore but it can get a bit dry at times.
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interesting so far. collection of articles concerning the etymology of vampire, and the origins and folklore concerning vampires.
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Alan Dundes was a folklorist at the University of California, Berkeley. His work was said to have been central to establishing the study of folklore as an academic discipline. He wrote 12 books, both academic and popular, and edited or co-wrote two dozen more. One of his most notable articles was called "Seeing is Believing" in which he indicated that Americans value the sense of sight more than t...more
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