Calmet y el vampiro: un personaje del mal. Aproximación desde la antropología a la literaturización del fenómeno vampírico
Dom Augustin Calmet wrote one of the most important treaties of the 18th century, the Traité sur les Apparitions des Esprits, et sur les Vampires, ou les Revenans de Hongrie, de Moravie, &c. (1746). If this intellectual is of interest, it is for his contribution to the consolidation and posterio...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad de Cádiz
2016-07-01
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| Series: | Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo |
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| Online Access: | http://revistas.uca.es/index.php/cir/article/view/2389/2184 |
| Summary: | Dom Augustin Calmet wrote one of the most important treaties of the 18th century, the Traité sur les Apparitions des Esprits, et sur les Vampires, ou les Revenans de Hongrie, de Moravie, &c. (1746). If this intellectual is of interest, it is for his contribution to the consolidation and posterior literary interpretation of the vampire myth, as his stories can be considered literary material that contributes to the representation of the malignancy of the character. The dissertation will start by identifying revenants, dead men that, after a considerable time leave their graves and frighten the living, provoking death. Then it will move on to the analysis of the Abbot’s stories, looking in depth at the malignant characteristics that will confer the idiosyncrasy of the actant. It will then establish, that these characteristics and many other peculiarities already expressed by Calmet regarding the revenants, were later inherited by the authors that created the literary character in the 19th century |
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| ISSN: | 2173-0687 2173-0687 |