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By Chantal Bourgault du Coudray
Taking a look at the how the werewolf has been interpreted through anthropologists, psychologists and criminologists, the writer explores the werewolf's visual appeal throughout a few well known types, from movie to image novels. the writer appears to be like on the roots of the parable and at its visual appeal in Gothic horror, at principles of "the beast within" and Freud's "wolf-man" to representations of illegal activity, wolf imagery in Nazism, the "body horror" movies of the Eighties and at last, to the werewolf's revival in modern fantasy.
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Already he may have bitten your little rosy-cheeked son Jack. 58 A string of words and phrases in this passage are persistently suggestive of the werewolf, and the allusion to the vampire that is tacked on to the end foreshadows the tendency furthered by Stoker to mingle vampiric imagery with that of the werewolf. The expression of concerns about morality and self-control in such lavishly sensational language again suggests the perpetuation of a romantic sensibility in the nineteenth century. In particular, the use of colourful prose manifested a lingering penchant for the stylistic mannerisms of romantic writing.
Her WEREWOLVES AND SCHOLARS analysis of such processes of ‘textual exchange’ is thoroughly supported by the patterns of scholarship evident in discussions of the werewolf phenomenon. ’32 In the context of widespread confidence in scientific methodology (which involved the systematic collation of data in support of a hypothesis until the weight of evidence ‘proved’ a theory), the accumulation of ‘evidence’ effected by such cycles of textual exchange looked like sound scientific practice. 33 The formula for creditworthiness outlined by Shuttleworth also applies to nineteenth-century studies of the werewolf.
76 Walter Kelly also followed in the style of Müller, except that he preferred the insights of the celestial school of mythology. This approach also assumed that myths evolved from WEREWOLVES AND SCHOLARS the ‘disease of language’ deriving from Sanskrit, but its primarily German exponents asserted that the subject of mythology was meteorological phenomena, particularly lightning, rather than the sun. Kelly introduced this interpretation of mythology to the British with his Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Folk Lore, published in 1863.