The Theology of Dracula: Reading the Book of Stoker as by Noël Montague-Étienne Rarignac PDF

By Noël Montague-Étienne Rarignac

ISBN-10: 0786464992

ISBN-13: 9780786464999

Few books have so seized the general public mind's eye as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, much more renowned now than while it was once first released in 1897. This severe paintings represents a rereading of the horror vintage as a Christian textual content, one who alchemizes Platonism, Gnosticism, Mariology and Christian resurrection in a story that explores the ugly. Of specific curiosity is the way the Dracula narrative emerges from previous vampire stories, which juxtapose Apollonian and Dionysian impulses. a robust addition to vampire and horror scholarship.

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