| The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic Contributor(s): Brodman, Barbara (Editor), Doan, James E. (Editor), Bacon, Simon (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1611478642 ISBN-13: 9781611478648 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $107.91 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 398.2 |
| LCCN: 2016006639 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 274 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 "undead and still dead" include images of death messengers and draugar, zombies and vampires in literature, popular media and Japanese anime. |