Supernatural Revamped (eBook)

From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic

Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan (Herausgeber)

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2016
274 Seiten
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-865-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents the supernatural as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk characters, their literary representations, or popular media. Instead, we move around the world and into the twenty-first century, reshaping legends into a post-modern image that is psychologically and socially relevant.

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This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) focused on the vampire legend. The essays in this collection expand that scope to include a multicultural and multigeneric discussion of a pantheon of supernatural creatures who interact and cross species-specific boundaries with ease. Angels and demons are discussed from the perspective of supernatural allegory, angelic ethics and supernatural heredity and genetics. Fairies, sorcerers, witches and werewolves are viewed from the perspectives of popular nightmare tales, depictions of race and ethnicity, popular public discourse and cinematic imagery. Discussions of the "e;undead and still dead"e; include images of death messengers and draugar, zombies and vampires in literature, popular media and Japanese anime.

Autor

Barbara Brodman is professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Nova Southeastern University.James E. Doan is professor in the Department of Literature and Modern Languages at Nova Southeastern University.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments Introduction Barbara Brodman and James E Doan Part One: Ethereals and Terrestrials1Of Angels and Demons: Staging the Demise of Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” through Supernatural Allegory C. Austin Hill2No More Mr. Nice Angel: Angelic Ethics from Paradise Lost to Supernatural Scott Culpepper3The Nightmare Tales of J. S. Le Fanu Paul E. H. Davis4Of Fairies and Sorcerers: Dichotomous Depictions of Race and Ethnicity in 1980s Fantasy Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman5Philosophers and Demons: Socrates, Descartes and the Search for Certainty Darren Hibbs6The Haunting of a Nation: Ghostly Public Discourses and the Making of Caribbean NationhoodAndrea Shaw Nevins 7An American Werewolf in Trelleborg: Representation of the Werewolf in Swedish Folk Belief and Popular Culture Tommy Kuusela8Magic Mexican Modernity: The Shifting Image of Witches and Witchcraft in the Movies Claudia Schaefer and Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández9Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy, Supernatural Heredity, and "Creature" Genetics Ashley Szanter Part Two: The Undead and Still Dead10An Anime Dullahan: The Irish Death Messenger Adapted in Japanese Popular Culture Masaya Shimokusu11Re-dressing Revenants: Anxieties of the Body, the Self and Desire When the Undead Make a Stylish Return Sarah Heaton12From Vampires to Zombies: The Revisionist Recreation of I Am LegendJessica E. Birch13Dying to Love You: The Evolution of the Romantic Zombie Simon Bacon14Undead Yakuza: The Japanese Zombie Movie, Cultural Resonance and Generic Conventions Kayleigh Murphy and Mark David Ryan 15“Look at the Flowers”: Female Evolution in the Face of the Zombie Hordes of The Walking Dead Cynthia Vinney and Caryn Wiley-Rapoport16From White Zombies to Night Zombies and Beyond: The Evolution of the Zombie in Western Popular Culture Todd K. Platts17From Saga to Skyrim: The Literary and Multimedia Reception of the Norse-Icelandic Draugr Myth Matthias TeichertSelected Bibliography Index About the Editors and Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2016
• Co-Autor: Simon Bacon, Kayleigh Murphy, Andrea Shaw Nevins, Todd K. Platts, Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez, Mark David Ryan, Claudia Schaefer, Masaya Shimokusu, Ashley Szanter, Matthias Teichert, Cynthia Vinney, Jessica Birch, Caryn Wiley-Rapoport, Scott Culpepper, Paul E. H. Davis, Sarah Heaton, Darren Hibbs, C. Austin Hill, Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, Tommy Kuusela
• Zusatzinfo: 6 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 5 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Cultural Studies • Folklore • Literary Studies • Literary Theory • Pop culture • Supernatural
• ISBN-10: 1-61147-865-0 / 1611478650
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61147-865-5 / 9781611478655