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Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture, <i>Blood Read</i> is a fresh look at an old form, offering lively, lucid insights into the contemporary explosion of vampire fiction. Nothing else like it exists. This book should set the terms for discussion about vampires for some time to come.--Brian, Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture has a rating of 4.5 stars
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Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture, Blood Read is a fresh look at an old form, offering lively, lucid insights into the contemporary explosion of vampire fiction. Nothing else like it exists. This book should set the terms for discussion about vampires for some time to come.--Brian, Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
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  • Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
  • Written by author Joan Gordon
  • Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., October 1997
  • "Blood Read is a fresh look at an old form, offering lively, lucid insights into the contemporary explosion of vampire fiction. Nothing else like it exists. This book should set the terms for discussion about vampires for some time to come."--Brian
  • The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to A
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Foreword: Vampires—The Ancient Fear
—Brian Aldiss Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: The Shape of Vampires
—Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger
2. My Vampire, My Friend: The Intimacy Dracula Destroyed
-Nina Auerbach
3. Metaphor into Metonymy: The Vampire Next Door
—Jules Zanger
4. The Vampire as Alien in Contemporary Fiction
—Margaret L. Carter
5. Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth: The Vampire in Search of Its Mother
—Joan Gordon
6. Meditations in Red: On Writing The Vampire Tapestry
—Suzy McKee Charnas
7. Sang for Supper: Notes on the Metaphorical Use of Vampires in The Empire of Fear and Young Blood
—Brian Stableford
8. Recasting the Mythology: Writing Vampire Fiction
—Jewelle Gomez
9. Dieting and Damnation: Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
—Sandra Tomc
10. When Hollywood Sucks, or, Hungry Girls, Lost Boys, and Vampirism in the Age of Reagan
—Nicola Nixon
11. Consuming Youth: The Lost Boys Cruise Mallworld
—Rob Latham
12. The Gilda Stories: Revealing the Monsters at the Margins
—Miriam Jones
13. Coming Out of the Coffin: Gay Males and Queer Goths in Contemporary Vampire Fiction
—Trevor Holmes
14. Techno-Gothic Japan: From Seishi Yokomizo's The Death's-Head Stranger to Mariko Ohara's Ephemera the Vampire
—Mari Kotani
15. Fantasies of Absence: The Postmodern Vampire
—Veronica Hollinger

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