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Chargement... Our Vampires, Ourselvespar Nina Auerbach
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Though now a few decades behind, Aurerbach makes an interesting survey of the first 200 years of vampire literature, with a focus on how they refected the societies that created them. ( ) This was an interesting read about the history of vampire fiction and how it has changed to reflecting shifting social mores and anxieties. Since it was published in 1995, it pretty thoroughly covers pre-Buffy history, which is a different angle from most of what I'm familiar with. I liked learning about things like the origin of the "pulling down the drapes to burn the vampire with sunlight" trope (a 1958 film). The author's point was pretty well argued, although the references were a little overwhelming for me since I'm not intimately familiar with many of the older works. The discussion of queer takes on vampires, in the final chapter, is super dated but not as offensive as I feared it would be. I kind of wish the author had published a second edition or followup covering the last 25 years of vampire fiction; I'm so curious to know what she would have thought. Lady Wombat says: Helpful synopsis of vampire literature and film, from the early 19th century to 1995. One of the first scholars to take the vampire seriously. The first part of the book, focusing on the 19th century, was the most interesting to me, being the most unfamiliar; Auerbach's contention that pre-Dracula vampires were typically in homoerotic plots is intriguing. The scope of the book narrowed considerably toward the end, with a whole chapter devoted to post-Reagan vampire lit/film; this narrowing gave the book an unbalanced feel. Her book's central claim -- the construction of the vampire changes in reaction to the social and political milieu of the times -- is convincingly argued. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history. "[Auerbach] has seen more Hammer movies than I (or the monsters) have had steaming hot diners, encountered more bloodsuckers than you could shake a stick at, even a pair of crossed sticks, such as might deter a very sophisticated ogre, a hick from the Moldavian boonies....Auerbach has dissected and deconstructed them with the tender ruthlessness of a hungry chef, with cogency and wit."--Eric Korn, Times Literary Supplement "This seductive work offers profound insights into many of the urgent concerns of our time and forces us to confront the serious meanings that we invest, and seek, in even the shadiest manifestations of the eroticism of death."--Wendy Doniger, The Nation "A vigorous, witty look at the undead as cultural icons."--Kirkus Review "In case anyone should think this book is merely a boring lit-crit exposition...Auerbach sets matters straight in her very first paragraph. 'What vampires are in any given generation,' she writes, 'is a part of what I am and what my times have become. This book is a history of Anglo-American culture through its mutating vampires.'...Her book really takes off."--Maureen Duffy, New York Times Book Review Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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