Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 224 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
First edition
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Also available in print
ISBN:
0857711873
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1429462655
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1282605194
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9781429462655
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9781845111571
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9780755695584
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9781282605190
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9780857711878
Inhalt:
Half-man-half-myth, the werewolf has over the years infiltrated popular culture in many strange and varied shapes, from Gothic horror to the 'body horror' films of the 1980s and today's graphic novels. Yet despite enormous critical interest in myths and in monsters, from vampires to cyborgs, the figure of the werewolf has been strangely overlooked. Embodying our primal fears - of anguished masculinity, of 'the beast within' - the werewolf, argues Bourgault du Coudray, has revealed in its various lupine guises radically shifting attitudes to the human psyche. Tracing the werewolf's 'use' by ant
Inhalt:
Shifting shapes of the werewolf -- Werewolves and scholars -- Upright citizens on all fours -- I used to be a werewolf but I'm alright nowooooo -- The call of the wild -- Women who run with the wolves -- A manifesto for werewolves -- In the steps of the werewolf.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-217) and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1845111575
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781845111571
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Du Coudray, Chantal Bourgault Curse of the werewolf London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2006 ISBN 1845111575
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781845111571
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755695584
