AbstractsLanguage, Literature & Linguistics
Sympathy for the Devil: Humanizing the Villain
| Institution: | University of Iceland |
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| Year: | 2013 |
| Keywords: | Enska; Hrollvekjur (sögur); Vampírur; Bókmenntagreining |
| Record ID: | 1222039 |
| Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/1946/13774 |
Abstract
Vampires in literature have gone through certain physical and psychological changes since stories about them started gaining popularity. There has been a noticeable shift from evil vampires to good ones, the vampire is no longer the easily detectable villain. The novels Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897), Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (1976) and The Twilight Series (2005-2008) by Stephenie Meyer will mainly be used as reference to point out how the vampire image has evolved, how the vampire is usually portrayed in modern literature, the shift from the horror to the romance genre and the emphasis on the good vampire.
