Vampires And A Reasonable Dictionary

Author : Scott Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampires & a Reasonable Dictionary written by Scott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...In 2008 the authors published, in Belgrade, Vampiri Radakovic is the translator of most of Peter Handke's works into Serbo-Croatian and Abbott translated Handke's provocative A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia for Viking Press and his play Voyage by Dugout: The Play of the Film of the War for PAJ (Performing Arts Journal); Radakovic was a journalist for Deutsche Welle in Cologne and Abbott is a professor of German literature at Utah Valley University; Radakovic is the author of several novels and Abbott has published mostly literary-critical work; and so on. Two sets of eyes. Two pens. Two visions of the world.

Author : Žarko Radaković
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692022238
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampires and a Reasonable Dictionary written by Žarko Radaković and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a follow-up to their first collaboration Repetitions (published in Belgrade in 1994, and in English by punctum in 2013), in 2008 the authors published, also in Belgrade, Vampiri & Razumni recnik, published here by punctum as Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary. Vampires is Radaković's fictionalized account of a Serb living in Cologne, Germany while his former country disintegrates. He travels in the American West, ostensibly looking for the vampires causing chaos in his own country, and then returns to Europe, having found no vampires. It is a dark text, a story of destruction told in a narrative that refuses all the solaces narrative has traditionally afforded. A Reasonable Dictionary is Abbott's personally troubled account of his and Radaković's trip up the Drina River between the civil wars, a journey made with the novelist Peter Handke, a trip during which some of Abbott's specifically American stories lost their moral structure.

Author : Sanguinarius
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435723600
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Sanguinese: Terminology and Lingo in the Vampire Community, Second Edition written by Sanguinarius and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable guide containing all the common jargon, slang, doublespeak, plays on words, etc., used by real vampires to converse with one another, either privately or in public. With so many real vampires "coming out," or at least reaching out to others, there are many who just discovering there's a wide community out there, both on and offline. Many new vampires are unfamiliar with "vampspeak," and as such, use inaccurate or inappropriate terms they have been exposed to in popular fiction, movie, or role-playing games; or they use specialized terms only they, and possibly a small group of fellow vampires, have come up with. Unfortunately, though they may be quite real, this often makes them seem like posers, or ignorant. This lexicon should be an excellent guide and introduction to much of the terminology used; it is not intended to cover the highly specialized terminology and jargon used by specific groups and houses. This edition includes over 60 new terms not contained in the previous.

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Vampires written by Peter Haining and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impressively researched A-Z reference work about one of the most fascinating - and feared - creatures in supernatural legend.

Author : Barbara Brodman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611475813
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Vampire written by Barbara Brodman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire was a feared creature of Eastern European folklore and legend, rising from the grave at night to consume its living loved ones and neighbors, often converting them at the same time into fellow vampires. A major question exists within vampire scholarship: to what extent is this creature a product of European cultural forms, or is the vampire indeed a universal, perhaps even archetypal figure? In this collection of sixteen original essays, the contributors shed light on this question. One essay traces the origins of the legend to the early medieval Norse draugr, an “undead” creature who reflects the underpinnings of Dracula, the latter first appearing as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. In addition to these investigations of the Western mythic, literary and historic traditions, other essays in this volume move outside Europe to explore vampire figures in Native American and Mesoamerican myth and ritual, as well as the existence of similar vampiric traditions in Japanese, Russian and Latin American art, theatre, literature, film, and other cultural productions. The female vampire looms large, beginning with the Sumerian goddess Lilith, including the nineteenth-century Carmilla, and moving to vampiresses in twentieth-century film, literature, and television series. Scientific explanations for vampires and werewolves constitute another section of the book, including eighteenth-century accounts of unearthing, decapitation and cremation of suspected vampires in Eastern Europe. The vampire’s beauty, attainment of immortality and eternal youth are all suggested as reasons for its continued success in contemporary popular culture.

Author : Jana Dolečki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331998893X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre in the Context of the Yugoslav Wars written by Jana Dolečki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles texts by renowned academics and theatre artists who were professionally active during the wars in former Yugoslavia. It examines examples of how various forms of theatre and performance reacted to the conflicts in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Kosovo while they were ongoing. It explores state-funded National Theatre activities between escapism and denial, the theatre aesthetics of protest and resistance, and symptomatic shifts and transformations in the production of theatre under wartime circumstances, both in theory and in practice. In addition, it looks beyond the period of conflict itself, examining the aftermath of war in contemporary theatre and performance, such as by considering Ivan Vidić’s war trauma plays, the art campaigns of the international feminist organization Women in Black, and Peter Handke’s play Voyage by Dugout. The introduction explores correlations between the contributions and initiates a reflection on the further development of the research field. Overall, the volume provides new perspectives and previously unpublished research in the fields of theory and historiography of theatre, as well as Southeast European Studies.

Author : Sanguinarius
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781449995065
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Vampspeak, Second Edition written by Sanguinarius and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-01-30 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable guide containing the common jargon, slang, doublespeak, plays on words, etc., used by real vampires to converse with one another, privately or in public. With so many real vampires "coming out", and reaching out to others, there are many who are just discovering there's a wide community out there, both on and offline. Many new vampires are unfamiliar with "vampspeak", and as such, use inaccurate or inappropriate terms they have been exposed to in popular fiction, movies, or role-playing games; or they use specialized terms that only they, and possibly a small group of fellow vampires, have come up with. Unfortunately, though they may be quite real, this often makes them seem like posers, or ignorant. This lexicon is an excellent guide and intro to much of the terminology used by real vampires; it is not intended to cover the highly specialized terminology and jargon used by specific groups and houses. This edition includes over 60 new terms not contained in the first.

Author : Dudley Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampires and Vampirism written by Dudley Wright and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a vampire? The definition given in Webster's International Dictionary is: "A blood-sucking ghost or re-animated body of a dead person; a soul or re-animated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, causing their death." Whitney's Century Dictionary says that a vampire is: "A kind of spectral body which, according to a superstition existing among the Slavic and other races on the Lower Danube, leaves the grave during the night and maintains a semblance of life by sucking the warm blood of living men and women while they are asleep. Dead wizards, werwolves, heretics, and other outcasts become vampires, as do also the illegitimate offspring of parents themselves illegitimate, and anyone killed by a vampire." According to the Encyclopædia Britannica: "The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards, suicides, and those who come to a violent end or have been cursed by their parents or by the Church. But anyone may become a vampire if an animal (especially a cat) leaps over the corpse or a bird flies over it." Among the specialists, the writers upon vampire lore and legend, two definitions may be quoted:--Hurst, who says that: "A vampyr is a dead body which continues to live in the grave; which it leaves, however, by night, for the purpose of sucking the blood of the living, whereby it is nourished and preserved in good condition, instead of becoming decomposed like other dead bodies"; and Scoffern, who wrote: "The best definition I can give of a vampire is a living mischievous and murderous dead body. A living dead body! The words are idle, contradictory, incomprehensible, but so are vampires."

Author : J. Gordon Melton
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampire Gallery written by J. Gordon Melton and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies on vampires since the 12th century, with an exploration of the vampire myth.

Author : Katherine M. Ramsland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345379221
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vampire Companion written by Katherine M. Ramsland and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of entries discuss various topics related to the Anne Rice series of vampire novels, and include characters, themes, places, and symbolism in the novels