Blood Obsession: Vampires, Genre, and the Compulsion to Repeat

by Jorg Waltje and Jörg Waltje

What is it about vampires that fascinates the human imagination? Blood Obsession closely scrutinizes theories of Sigmund Freud and Tzvetan Todorov and arrives at a model of the vampire as the perfect representative of genre for a variety of reasons - the vampire figure appeals to its audience because of an interdependency of looplike mental and narrative structures that lure both reader and writer incessantly back to the genre. At the same time, this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820474207
• ISBN13: 9780820474205
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 157 Pages