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Introduction Blood Bank: A History of the Symbolics of Blood
Abstract
In the above quotation blood is a metaphor for vampirism, carrying within it both monstrosity and traces of its opposite, humanity. The scent of potential draws the protean blood worms from unformed darkness towards the solidity of flesh. On this journey blood as a symbol itself evolves. By shifting focus from a stringently vampire-based analysis to one that recognises the liquidity and transformation of symbols and metaphors, as they bleed from early modernity into the complex arterial networks of global and corporate culture, it is possible to open new veins of signification in the otherwise exhausted and dry landscape of vampire scholarship.
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Nineteenth Century Vital Debate Sovereign Power Early Modernity Racial PurityPreview
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