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Download tales of werewolves6/15/2023 ![]() To this end, Stypczynski’s introduction describes his own system and criteria for inclusion – his text examines werewolves as figures who can shape shift into humans and wolves, but are never truly one or the other, and he separates this form from the hybrid man-wolf (which is ironically represented on the front cover). Just as the werewolf is a figure that continually shifts, so too does the academic definition of what constitutes a werewolf. Stypczynski addresses a range of modern literary sources, as well as the werewolf’s literary history from the medieval and Early Modern period, thus providing an effective overview of how the werewolf has transformed over time. To explore this fascinating and worthwhile topic Brent A. Amongst supernatural creatures, werewolves are arguably more adaptable than zombies, ghosts and even some vampires instead of being permanently changed in to a fearful form, they shapeshift continually, adapting and reacting to their environment, providing multiple, rich avenues for academic study. In the last decade alone there have been several critical texts published on the subject: The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature (2003), Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures (2004), Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity Through the Renaissance (2009), Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture: A Thematic Analysis of Recent Depictions (2012) and now The Modern Literary Werewolf: A Critical Study of a Mutable Motif (2013). Whilst for decades vampires, ghosts and zombies have enjoyed prominence with regard to the academic study of supernatural creatures, it seems attention is finally starting to shift to the werewolf. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2013.
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