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Slavic Blood: The Vampire in Russian and East European Cultures

Slavic Blood: The Vampire in Russian and East European Cultures

Garza, Thomas J.

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1631891162
ISBN13: 9781631891168
Publisher: Univ Readers
Published: Aug 25 2017
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.89
Height: 0.89 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Eight hundred years before Bram Stoker gave us the West's most memorable literary vampire in Dracula and long before the historical exploits of Vlad Tepes The Impaler horrified Europe, the Russian Primary Chronicles wrote of a Novgorodian priest as upyr' likhij, or wicked vampire. The Slavic and Balkan worlds abound in histories, legends, myths, and literary portraits of the so-called undead, creatures which draw life out of the living in order to sustain themselves. These stories of the vampire simultaneously fascinate and horrify, as they draw the reader closer to an understanding of death and the undead.

Slavic Blood: The Vampire in Russian and East European Cultures is a unique volume that brings together a wide variety of historical, critical, and literary texts that reveal and explore the origins, growth, and development of the vampire myth from its beginnings to the 21st century. It examines the vampire myth within the region of its origin in Western cultures - the lands of the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Russia - and reviews the earliest recorded tales, as well as recent portrayals of Russian vampires on film, to give the reader a dynamic perspective on one the world's most enduring cultural phenomena. This edition features additional fiction and nonfiction material on sociopolitical interpretations of the vampire, as well as new song lyrics on vampire and werewolf themes.

Slavic Blood is ideal for courses ranging from folklore to gothic studies, and Slavic to religious studies.

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