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Children's & YA

January 2016

Vee Loved Garlic

by Richa Jha and Kunal Kundu

When Miss Vee Noonie falls in love with garlic, there is pandemonium in the house. She is a vampire, after all. Her parents do their best to urge her to stay away from it. Garlic, they tell her, is fatal for vampires. Freethinker Vee’s research tells her that’s not true and she leaves no stone unturned in convincing her folks. Does she succeed? Richa Jha celebrates a young thinking mind’s spirit of inquisitiveness, questioning the given, persuasiveness and non-conformist free will in this pacey picture book that is packed with sharp dialogues, intense passion, and chic humour. The breathtaking sweep of Kunal Kundu’s detailed etching and dramatic artwork lingers on till long after the book has been put aside.

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Literature & Literary Studies

October 2024

The Legacy of John Polidori

The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny

by Sam George, Bill Hughes

John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori's Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori's vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. They emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.

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May 1987

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

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June 2014

Die Polen und ihre Vampire

Studien zur Kritik der Phantasmen

by Maria Janion, Magdalena Marszalek, Bernhard Hartmann, Thomas Weiler

Maria Janion, Literaturwissenschaftlerin und namhafte Romantikforscherin, ist eine der unumstrittenen intellektuellen Autoritäten in Polen. Sie hat sich stets in politische Debatten eingemischt und in den letzten Jahren ihre Prominenz dazu genutzt, die Frauenbewegung und die wiedererwachte Neue Linke zu unterstützen. Bereits in den frühen Achtzigern machte sie Autoren wie Foucault, Bataille, Susan Sontag, R.D. Laing in Polen bekannt. Ihre Schüler sind die Initiatoren der polnischen Gender-Forschung. Im Zentrum ihres Werkes steht der Begiff der krytyka fantasmatyczna, die Befragung von Literatur, Film und Kunst auf ihre imaginären Potenziale hin, auf bewusste und unbewusste kulturelle Vorstellungen, Selbst- und Fremdbilder, die in den ästhetischen Gebilden wirksam sind. Ein bedeutendes romantisches Phantasma ist der Vampir als Doppelgänger und Schatten, als »Symbolfigur für die Transgression zum Bösen«. Maria Janions kritische Studien zu Bildern des Weiblichen oder zum „unheimlichen Slawentum“ als dem Unterbewussten der europäischen Kultur provozieren nationalkonservative Kreise bis heute. Was es für die Polen bedeutet, dass ihr Land Schauplatz des Holocaust war, ist eines der großen Themen ihres Spätwerks. Mit ihrem Ruf »Nach Europa, ja! Aber nur zusammen mit unseren Toten« fordert sie, im Anschluss an Adam Mickiewicz’ »Ahnenfeier« und Imre Kertész’ Rede vom »Holocaust als Kultur«, eine Kultur des Trauerns und Erinnerns.

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Children's & YA

2018

What on Earth am I?

by Lara Salomon

What on Earth am I? is Lara Salomon's and Megan Bird's first children's book together, investigating complex topics, like identity, diversity, and existentialism, for kids. It is a wonderful picture book for children with more questions than answers about the world. The book follows a young child’s over-active imagination, which often leaves them confused as to what kind of creature they are. They try their very best to discover the answer by recalling the many creatures that they've read about in their storybooks and fairytales. "I've been reading all these stories, and they've got me quite confused. Because they feature all these creatures, and I'm really not amused."

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Literature: history & criticism

February 2017

The Gothic and death

by Series edited by Elisabeth Bronfen. Edited by Carol Davison

The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries. It investigates how the multifarious strands of the Gothic and the concepts of death, dying, mourning and memorialisation ('the Death Question') - have intersected and been configured cross-culturally to diverse ends from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. Drawing on recent scholarship in such fields as Gothic Studies, film theory, Women's and Gender Studies and Thanatology Studies, this interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays by international scholars combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known. This area of enquiry is considered by way of such popular and uncanny figures as corpses, ghosts, zombies and vampires, and across various cultural and literary forms such as Graveyard Poetry, Romantic poetry, Victorian literature, nineteenth-century Italian and Russian literature, Anglo-American film and television, contemporary Young Adult fiction and Bollywood film noir.

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1987

Kücük Vampir /Der kleine Vampir

by Sommer-Bodenburg, Angela

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September 2011

Vampire

sehen, erkennen, handeln

by Woerner, Meredith / Illustriert von Schievink, Jochen; Übersetzt von Sanguinantis, Claudia

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September 2002

Highland-Vampir

by Dark, Jason

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August 2006

Vampir-Phantome

by Dark, Jason

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November 2010

Vampir-Nächte

by Dark, Jason

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September 2013

Vorsicht Vampire!

Nur mit Knoblauch zu genießen

by Herausgegeben von Engel, Ute; Herausgegeben von Mankel, Kristine

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June 2005

Vampir-Attacke

Das ultimative Gruselbuch

by Pippistrella, Sylvania

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April 2004

The Little Vampire

by Sommer-Bodenburg, Angela / Illustriert von Glienke, Amelie; Übersetzt von Gibson, Sarah

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February 2012

VAMPIRE SOULS - Nachtrausch

Roman

by Smith-Ready, Jeri / Übersetzt von Ritgen, Beke

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June 2008

Lord der Vampire

by Richards, Justin / Englisch Wiemken, Simone

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March 2021

Vampir on the Rocks

by Lynsay Sands

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February 2003

Armand der Vampir

Roman

by Rice, Anne

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January 2009

Vampire! Bissige Liebesgeschichten

by Herausgegeben von Dawn, Lindsay

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June 2008

Lord der Vampire

by Richards, Justin / Übersetzt von Wiemken, Simone

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The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny

by Sam George, Bill Hughes

by Bram Stoker

Studien zur Kritik der Phantasmen

by Maria Janion, Magdalena Marszalek, Bernhard Hartmann, Thomas Weiler

by Lara Salomon

by Series edited by Elisabeth Bronfen. Edited by Carol Davison

by Sommer-Bodenburg, Angela

sehen, erkennen, handeln

by Woerner, Meredith / Illustriert von Schievink, Jochen; Übersetzt von Sanguinantis, Claudia

by Dark, Jason

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by Dark, Jason

Nur mit Knoblauch zu genießen

by Herausgegeben von Engel, Ute; Herausgegeben von Mankel, Kristine

Das ultimative Gruselbuch

by Pippistrella, Sylvania

by Sommer-Bodenburg, Angela / Illustriert von Glienke, Amelie; Übersetzt von Gibson, Sarah

Roman

by Smith-Ready, Jeri / Übersetzt von Ritgen, Beke

by Richards, Justin / Englisch Wiemken, Simone

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Roman

by Rice, Anne

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by Richards, Justin / Übersetzt von Wiemken, Simone

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