Authors: Estelle Valls de Gomis

Description: Etude issue d'une thèse de doctorat de littérature anglaise, sur les vampires, leurs représentations et leurs caractéristiques dans la littérature, l'imaginaire populaire, les adaptations littéraires au cinéma, etc.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Editions Cheminements

Categories: Vampires

Authors: Claude Lecouteux

Description: A look at the forgotten ancestors of the modern-day vampire, many of which have very different characteristics • Looks at the many ancestoral forms of the modern vampire, including shroud eaters, appesarts, and stafi • Presents evidence for the reality of this phenomenon from pre-19th-century newspaper articles and judicial records Of all forms taken by the undead, the vampire wields the most powerful pull on the modern imagination. But the countless movies and books inspired by this child of the night who has a predilection for human blood are based on incidents recorded as fact in newspapers and judicial archives in the centuries preceding the works of Bram Stoker and other writers. Digging through these forgotten records, Claude Lecouteux unearths a very different figure of the vampire in the many accounts of individuals who reportedly would return from their graves to attack the living. These ancestors of the modern vampire were not all blood suckers; they included shroud eaters, appesarts, nightmares, and the curious figure of the stafia, whose origin is a result of masons secretly interring the shadow of a living human being in the wall of a building under construction. As Lecouteux shows, the belief in vampires predates ancient Roman times, which abounded with lamia, stirges, and ghouls. Discarding the tacked together explanations of modern science for these inexplicable phenomena, the author looks back to another folk belief that has come down through the centuries like that of the undead: the existence of multiple souls in every individual, not all of which are able to move on to the next world after death.

Langue: en

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit

Authors: Albert Montagne

Description: 3 parties : d'abord les monstres humains, ensuite les hybrides (créatures de l'imaginaire) et les non humains. Le spectacle de tant de créatures difformes, pantelantes, cruelles, attirantes, désespérantes, est au fond le prétexte à interroger la complexité de l'homme par le truchement d'un miroir volontairement déformant.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Charles Corlet

Categories: Horror films

Authors: Claude Lecouteux

Description: O vampiro faz parte da história desconhecida da humanidade, ele tem um papel e uma função; não brotou do nada no século XVII ou XVIII! Ele se inscreve num conjunto complexo de representações da morte e da vida, que sobreviveu até nossos dias, certamente com uma riqueza bem menor do que naquele passado distante que temos tendência a confundir com séculos de obscurantismo, aquelas épocas remotas e ignorantes que baniram as Luzes da razão. Apoiando-se em testemunhos de primeira mão, o objetivo desse livro é fazer um trabalho de desmistificação, encontrar o objeto de uma crença ancestral e descobrir o contexto mental em que se arraigou a noção de vampiro, porque essa ancoragem no real é o que há de mais importante, nem que seja apenas por sua dimensão antropológica.

Langue: pt-BR

Publisher: UNESP

Categories: Social Science

Authors:

Description: Philosophy, Religion, Social sciences, Law, Education, Economy, Exact and natural sciences, Medicine, Science and technology, Agriculture, Management, Architecture, Art, History, Sport, Biography, Literature.

Langue: un

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Categories: Translations

Authors: Paul F. Wilson ,Jacques Guiod

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Langue: fr

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