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dc.contributor.authorStikkelbroeck, Caroline.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-21T14:02:31Z
dc.date.available2009-05-21T14:02:31Z
dc.date.issued2007-05-21T14:02:31Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/1408
dc.description.abstractMy approach to the vampire detective highlights its connections to the private detective's story and reveals the monstrous investigators' debt to early feminist forms of detection -specifically in their reformation of the' other' and of traditional forms of power and authority. Seen in this light the movement of horror's imaginary 'other' into the rational world of detection can be seen as not an abrupt breach of detection's realist conventions, but an almost seamless transition into symbolic spaces that point to the detective's primary function -- to make sense of the senseless. It is in this light that I explore the monster that is a detective as a symbol that is also a sense-maker, and a quintessential postmodern figure. I argue that the distinctions between monsters and 'others', and between popular narratives and postmodern religion have faded, culminating in a character that can not only model 'otherness' as an exemplary condition, but also provide strategies for modeling the form of active postmodern subjectivity that postmodern theorist Jim Collins' (1989) conceives of as heretical activity.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrock Universityen_US
dc.subjectVampires in literature.en_US
dc.subjectDetective and mystery stories.en_US
dc.titleMonstrum : the vampire in the detective story /en_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen
dc.degree.nameM.A. Popular Cultureen_US
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPopular Culture Programen_US
dc.degree.disciplineFaculty of Humanitiesen_US
refterms.dateFOA2021-07-16T10:45:16Z


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