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Drink of me, and you shall have eternal life: an analysis of Lord Byron's The Giaour and the Greek folkloric vampire
Description
This paper contains an examination of the impact of the Vampire Hysteria in Europe during the 1700’s on Lord Byron's “The Giaour.” Byron traveled to the continent in 1809 and wrote the poems that came to be known as his Oriental Romances after overhearing what would become “The Giaour ” in “ one of the many coffee-houses that abound in the Levant.” The main character, the Giaour, has characteristics typical of the Greek vampire, called vrykolakas. The vamping of characters, the cyclic imagery, and the juxtaposition of life and death as it is expressed within the poem are analyzed in comparison to vampiric folklore, especially that of Greece.
Date Created
2010
Contributors
- Smith, Rosemary Kristine (Author)
- Lussier, Mark S. (Thesis advisor)
- Bivona, Daniel (Committee member)
- Broglio, Ronald (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
iii, 59 p
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.8764
Statement of Responsibility
by Rosemary Kristine Smith
Description Source
Retrieved on Jan. 24, 2012
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2010
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-59)
Field of study: English
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