The scientificized vampire: Biological explanations of vampirism in "Blade I" and "I Am Legend."
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:23:29
Category: / Society & Culture / Geography
Length: 12 pages (3429 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Geography
Length: 12 pages (3429 words)
1 Introduction.
The motif of the vampire has now been widely spread through all kinds of genres, movies and literary works. Many of these texts treat and depict vampirism as a mythical, religious or supernatural phenomenon or a mixture of all three of these. As the vampire is a figure which - concerning its existence in literary texts - is rooted in gothic and fantastic fiction, the causes and reasons for its existence given in these …
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