Research Catalog

Title

Spanish vampire fiction since 1900 : blood relations / Abigail Lee Six.

Author

Six, Abigail Lee

Publication

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

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Details

Description

vi, 229 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations, as that subtitle suggests, makes the case for considering Spanish vampire fiction an index of the complex relationship between intercultural phenomena and the specifics of a time, place, and author. Supernatural beings that drink blood are found in folklore worldwide, Spain included, and writers ranging from the most canonical to the most marginal have written vampire stories, Spanish ones included too. When they do, they choose between various strategies of characterization or blend different ones together. How much will they draw on conventions of the transnational corpus? Are their vampires to be local or foreign; alluring or repulsive; pitiable or pure evil, for instance? Decisions like these determine the messages texts carry and, when made by Spanish authors, may reveal aspects of their culture with striking candidness, perhaps because the fantasy premise seems to give the false sense of security that this is harmless escapism and, since metaphorical meaning is implicit, it is open to argument and, if necessary, denial"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in comparative literature

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in comparative literature.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Spanish > History and criticism
• Spanish fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Horror tales, Spanish > History and criticism
• Vampires in literature
• Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Spanish
• Horror tales, Spanish
• Spanish fiction

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Text-by-text analysis. Ramón del Valle-Inclán, "Beatriz/Satanás" -- Emilia Pardo Bazán, "Vampiro" -- Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent, "Una hora de amor" and "El señor cadáver y le señorita vampiro" -- Carmen de Burgos, La mujer fría -- Wenceslao Fernández Flórez, "El claro del bosque" -- Alfonso Sastre, "Las noches del Espíritu Santo" -- Juan G. Atienza, "Sangre fresca para el muerto" -- Alfons Cervera, "Historia de amor" -- Adelaida García Morales, La lógica del vampiro -- Mercedes Abad, Sangre -- Javier García Sánchez, Ella, Drácula: Erzsébet Báthory -- Clara Tahoces, Gothika -- Santiago Exímeno, "Al caer la noche" -- David Jasso, "Víctimas inocentes" -- Alfredo Álamo, "El hombre de la pala" -- Elia Barceló, "La belle dame sans merci" -- Nuria C. Botey, "Viviendo con el tío roy" -- Miguel Puente Molins, "Caries" -- Juan Ignacio Carrasco, Entre nosotros -- José de la Rosa, Vampiro -- Marc R. Soto, "Siempre en mi recuerdo" -- José María Tamparillas, "El sabor de la buena tierra", "Sangre de mi sangre, carne de mi carne" and "La vieja, la muy vieja Betty" -- Lorenzo Fernández Bueno, el vampiro de Silesia -- Carlos Molinero, Verano de miedo -- Gema del Prado Marugán, "Comer con los ojos" -- Edgar Sega, "Los dos mundos de Lord Barrymore" -- Part II. Comparative analysis. Folklore and religion -- Contagion and transmission.

Call Number

JFE 19-7975

ISBN

• 9781138303836
• 1138303836

LCCN

2018054363

OCLC

1069639423

Author

Six, Abigail Lee, author.

Title

Spanish vampire fiction since 1900 : blood relations / Abigail Lee Six.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in comparative literature

Routledge studies in comparative literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Six, Abigail Lee, author. Spanish vampire fiction since 1900 New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9780203730683 (DLC) 2018059188

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7975