The Theology of Dracula: Reading the Book of Stoker as Sacred Text

· McFarland
eBook
246
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Eligible

About this eBook

Few books have so seized the public imagination as Bram Stoker's Dracula, even more popular now than when it was first published in 1897. This critical work represents a rereading of the horror classic as a Christian text, one that alchemizes Platonism, Gnosticism, Mariology and Christian resurrection in a tale that explores the grotesque. Of particular interest is the way in which the Dracula narrative emerges from earlier vampire tales, which juxtapose Apollonian and Dionysian impulses. A strong addition to vampire and horror scholarship.

About the author

Noël Montague-Étienne Rarignac has worked as a musician, filmmaker, video artist, traveling fellow for an art museum, and composer. He has studied at la Sorbonne Nouvelle, l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Tufts University, and Keele University (U.K.), earning degrees in art, cinema, English and philosophy, and iconography. He lives in Bordeaux, France.

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