Gender, Genre and Dracula: Joan Copjec and “Vampire Fiction”
This article critiques a certain psychoanalytic approach both to the genre of “Vampire Fiction” and the “anxiety” it induces. Joan Copjec’s claim is that these are founded on “nothing”, genre and affect being defined by the “overwhelming presence of the real”, for which all “interpretation […] is su...
Main Author: | Neil Cocks |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-04-01
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Series: | Humanities |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/2/33 |
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