Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge

Zombies are everywhere these days. We are consuming zombies as much as they are said to be consuming us in mediated apocalyptic scenarios on popula...

Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literatu...

This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural ...

This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural ...

What's a gal to do when her loaded lover is getting to be a nuisance? Why, just murder him and take all his money, of course. If you want to be fab...

This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire in several fields of study including literary studies, cultural studies, gende...

In Hans Christian Andersen in American Literary Criticism of the Nineteenth Century, Herbert Rowland argues that the literary criticism accompanyin...

Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic sc...

This book focuses on mythos and voice in the Odyssey, to illuminate its characters’ journeys from social displacement through discovery and recover...

2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics Honorable Mention, 2016 Baron Book Prize presented by AAJR A monster tour of...

The Unpopular Realism of Vincenzo Padula provides a microhistory of life in a Southern Italian province in the decade following Unification and of ...

This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire in several fields of study including literary studies, cultural studies, gende...

This book traces the construct of female monsters as an embodiment of sociocultural fears of female sexuality and reproductive power. It examines t...

"Les écoles Catholiques? C'est une bonne chose. . . . Beaucoup de cadres de ce pays sont passés par la. . . . Nous voulons aussi que l'école des vo...

This book is an interdisciplinary synthesis and interpretation about the experience of light as revealed in a wide range of art and literature from...

Tama in Japanese Myth attempts to elucidate Japanese religious experiences by presenting a new interpretation of the oldest existing text of Japane...

Tama in Japanese Myth attempts to elucidate Japanese religious experiences by presenting a new interpretation of the oldest existing text of Japane...

Power and Influence demonstrates how the indigenous wisdom contained in African proverbs and folktales can be used to enhance modern life. The time...

Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literatu...

Proverbs are crystals of knowledge acquired from daily life and passed from generation to generation. The origin of these proverbs is usually not a...

Wisdom and Initiation in Gabon: A Philosophical Analysis of Fang Tales, Myths, and Legends is a study of the philosophical significance of Fang myt...

In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the developmen...

Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Jes Battis, addresses the role of adolescence in fantast...

This book presents an original and engaging look at contemporary popular culture, opening with the provocative idea that this is a day and age of c...

Our most modern monster and perhaps our most American, the zombie that is so prevalent in popular culture today has its roots in African soul captu...