The scientificized vampire: Biological explanations of vampirism in "Blade I" and "I Am Legend."
Title: The scientificized vampire: Biological explanations of vampirism in "Blade I" and "I Am Legend."
Category: /Society & Culture/Geography
Details: Words: 3429 | Pages: 12 (approximately 235 words/page)
The scientificized vampire: Biological explanations of vampirism in "Blade I" and "I Am Legend."
Category: /Society & Culture/Geography
Details: Words: 3429 | Pages: 12 (approximately 235 words/page)
1 Introduction.
The motif of the vampire has now been widely spread through all kinds of genres, movies and literary works. Many of these texts treat and depict vampirism as a mythical, religious or supernatural phenomenon or a mixture of all three of these. As the vampire is a figure which - concerning its existence in literary texts - is rooted in gothic and fantastic fiction, the causes and reasons for its existence given in these
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