The Curse of the Werewolf
Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8103334 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chantal Bourgault Du Coudray (0000-0002-2155-2512, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Curse of the Werewolf (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | I.B.Tauris (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9780755695584 |
| OpenAlex | W4244651476 |
| ISBN | 9780755695584 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Half-man-half-myth, the werewolf has over the years infiltrated popular culture in many strange and varied shapes, from Gothic horror to the ‘body horror’ films of the 1980s and today's graphic novels. Yet despite enormous critical interest in myths and in monsters, from vampires to cyborgs, the figure of the werewolf has been strangely overlooked. Embodying our primal fears - of anguished masculinity, of ‘the beast within’ – the werewolf, argues Bourgault du Coudray, has revealed in its various lupine guises radically shifting attitudes to the human psyche. Tracing the werewolf's ‘use’ by anthropologists and criminologists and shifting interpretations of the figure – from the ‘scientific’ to the mythological and psychological - Bourgault du Coudray also sees the werewolf in Freud's ‘wolf-man’ case and the sinister use of wolf imagery in Nazism. “The Curse of the Werewolf” looks finally at the werewolf's revival in contemporary fantasy, finding in this supposedly conservative
Art · Curse · Fantasy · Literature · Mythology · Psychoanalysis · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Psychology · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |