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Wolves lope across Gothic imagination. Signs of a pure animality opposed to humanity, in the figure of the werewolf they become liminal creatures that move between the human and the animal. Werewolves function as a site for exploring complex anxieties of difference - of gender, class, race, space, nation or sexuality - but the imaginative and ideological uses of wolves also reflect back on the lives of material animals, long persecuted in their declining habitats across the world. Werewolves therefore raise unsettling questions about the intersection of the real and the imaginary, the instability of human identities and the worldliness and political weight of the Gothic.This is the first volume concerned with the appearance of werewolves and wolves in literary and cultural texts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on representations of werewolves and wolves in literature, film, television and visual culture, the essays investigate the key texts of the lycanthropic canon alongside lesser-known works from the 1890s to the present. The result is an innovative study that is both theoretically aware and historically nuanced, featuring an international list of established and emerging scholars based in Britain, Europe, North America and Australia.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Werewolves in literature.

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The werewolf in popular fiction has begun to change rapidly. Literary critics have observed this development and its impact on the werewolf in fiction, with theorists arguing that the modern werewolf offers new possibilities about how we view identity and the self. Although this monograph is preoccupied with the same concerns, it represents a departure from other critical works by analysing the werewolf's subjectivity/identity as a work-in-progress, where the fixed and final form is yet to be arrived at – and may never be fully accomplished. Using the critical theories of Deleuze and Guattari and their concepts of ‘multiplicities'and ‘becoming', this work argues that the werewolf is in a state of constant evolution as it develops new modes of being in popular fiction. Following on from this examination of lycanthropic subjectivity, the book goes on to examine the significant developments that have resulted from the advent of the werewolf as subject, few of which have received any sustained critical attention to date.

Werewolves in literature. --- Werewolves --- Lycanthropes --- Were-wolves --- Werwolves --- Animals, Mythical --- Wolves --- Shapeshifting --- History and criticism.

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This book is a typological study of canids and canid imagery in Medieval Celtic cultures. It explores texts ranging from early Irish legal tracts and heroic narrative to exempla from Welsh, Breton, and later Scottish sources.

Celtic literature -- History and criticism. --- Shapeshifting. --- Werewolves in literature. --- Celtic literature --- Werewolves in literature --- Shapeshifting --- Languages & Literatures --- Celtic Languages & Literatures --- Metamorphosis --- Metamorphosis (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Shape-shifting --- Therianthropy --- Leopard men --- Melusine (Legendary character) --- Werewolves --- History and criticism

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"Au Moyen Âge le loup-garou suscite un engouement qui transparaît dans la littérature vernaculaire aussi bien que savante. Il cristallise de vieilles appréhensions humaines et touche à des questions essentielles sur la nature de l'homme et de l'animal. Il invite à réfléchir à la place du monstre dans la Création et interroge sa capacité à détenir une âme. Il dévoile les pulsions et les désirs enfouis en l'être humain, les dysfonctionnements de l'individu et de la société. Les dix-neuf textes rassemblés dans ce recueil abordent les différentes facettes de la lycanthropie, sans négliger son origine médicale ou anthropologique, sa diabolisation par l'Inquisition ou ses multiples avatars fictionnels. Pour ces auteurs du XIe au XVe siècle, ce mythe n'est pas seulement l'un de ces faits étranges destiné à captiver l'auditoire en provoquant une horreur mêlée d'une trouble attirance. Il est porteur de sens pour qui veut y prêter attention."

Loups-garous --- Croyances populaires --- Littérature médiévale --- Dans la littérature. --- Thèmes, motifs --- French literature --- Werewolves in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- Littérature française --- Loups-garous dans la littérature

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Loups-garous dans la litterature --- Monsters in de literatuur --- Monsters in literature --- Monstres dans la littérature --- Vampiers in de literatuur --- Vampires dans la littérature --- Vampires in literature --- Weerwolven in de literatuur --- Werewolves in literature --- Monsters --- Werewolves --- Vampires --- Monstres --- Loups-garous --- Malformations. --- Loups-garous. --- Vampires. --- Monstres. --- Animaux fabuleux dans la littérature --- Littérature et médecine