| The vampire legend is investigated extensively and enduringly by the west academic circles. And the center of the systematical, deep investigation focuses on the vampire literature especially. Although our society has already import and translate some of the representative works of the vampire literature, the local academic circles do not pay attention to this literature style. According to the theme methodology of the comparative literature and a kind of subjective attitude. This text analyses the original stories, plots, events by the writers, including the reproduced and re-handled parts of the previous works. It emerges the whole spread and evolutional feature of the vampire legend in the west literature. Lies in provides us to know deeply that the dissimilar explanations from different writers, nations, times, and interaction and influence in the literary creation. Then, it makes us correctively understand the reason that the function and value of the literature vampire legend.From the end of 18'c to the end of 19'c, the basic content of the vampire legend is directly removed and magnified by the major means of the writers' creation to remake the original legend. Image and property of the vampire is remade, even the way to distinguish and wipe out the vampire. The new figures and propagated way around the vampire legend. The vampire literature not only conform to the characteristics of the ages and the existing social moral normal, but satisfied public expectation in attitude towards writers' creation to supply a good renewable and prosperous condition. The vampire literature becomes more abundant means of system under the unchanged basic content, and it has extensive popularization on base of the original legend through the literary vampire legend in this times.From 20'c to these days, the general trend of the vampire literature is the enriched and plentiful vampire image which can be humanized. The writers abandon the removed vampire legend directly. They break the simple binary appositional pattern that is made of kind-hearted and evil. And they deny the traditional understanding of the original legend. These vampire works can be interpreted to exhibit their theme and the writers' self-conscious about society, reality and the ultimate questions of the human being. Followed others literature styles and thoughts involves in the vampire literature, it has been enriched it's creative space. The writers try many aspects to create the vampire works during 20'c to these days. And the basic meanings of system of the vampire legend have been deconstructed gradually. |
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